Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping: the technique of starting with exisiting resources to create something more complex and effective

Here are some great articles/blogs on bootstrapping:
Bootstrapping Your Startup
No, you don't need investors to start your dream business. Here's how to make it happen with your own money.
Entrepreneur Magazine


How to Change the World: A Practical Blog for Impractical People by Guy Kawasaki
The Art of Bootstrapping

This one isn't specifically about Bootstrapping, but this blog by Seth Godin is worth your time to read.

Green Myths Debunked

A recent Fortune article addressed the trend towards going green, but also "debunked" 7 Green Myths. #4 is pretty interesting
Food: A stealthy greenhouse-gas culprit
Myth: Cars are one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gas.
Reality: Yes, but those hamburgers you like to gobble down are actually much worse. 



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Competitions

Eco Scraps, and our management team at BYU, recently became a Sparkseed Venture and won the audience choice award and took 2nd place at the BYU Social Venture Competition.

If you want to learn more, or see the presentation we used, our prezi is available online.

The Green Police

Cup of Dirt

We always get a kick out of telling people that our company makes dirt (ok, it is very specialized dirt). Seeing as we are in the dirt business we think this skit by Brian Regan is pretty funny.

Genesis

People always ask how we came up with this idea, I don’t know what kind of answer they expect but they are always a little surprised when I tell them how it happened.

I was raised in a family that always talked about business. Between my siblings and me someone always had some of new venture idea that would be talked about at the dinner table. In the winter of 2009 my little brother, T, and I were eating all you could eat breakfast at Magelby’s Fresh, a family favorite. After gorging ourselves on their famous French toast we threw out what we hadn’t eaten. We threw away quite a bit of food and saw that everyone else was throwing out a lot of food. On the ride home we started talking about ways to monetize on people’s food waste. And that was the birth of the idea behind Eco Scraps.

Eco Scraps

E·co Scraps [eek-oh skraps]: an innovative new business venture that recycles food waste by turning it into a highly nutritious organic soil amendment. Founded Fall 2009 by college undergrads at BYU.