Article Recommendation: Boot Strapping your Start-up

Source: Gründerszene

The art of bootstrapping

Excerpt: “Bootstrapping’ is one of the many buzzwords that flit around the startup scene. This is particularly true in times when investors in new ventures are thin on the ground and what funding there is is only being directed at businesses seen as safe bets to go public or be acquired for gazillions at the exit stage. For those entrepreneurs struggling to acquire venture capital, bootstrapping is the art of putting minimal resources to work and growing your business incrementally from the ground up. But how is it done?

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Operations Club – Step 1

There are numerous student clubs under the roof of MBASA (ESADE student association) such as the consulting club, marketing club, entrepreneurship club, net impact chapter, renewable energy club etc. however one was missing: Operations Club!

At first we were considering starting a Supply Chain Management Club (SCM) however we quickly realised that it was too specific and our keen interest exceeded SCM. The idea of creating the “Operations Club” was born.  We thought it imperative to start this club particulary when taking into consideration that ESADE offers a particular Master of Operations and ESADE ranks 15 globally in Operations Management education.

However we have been experiencing a lot of difficulties starting this club and the bureaucracy of ESADE is showing its ugly side. Not only has the application process to start this club been extremely slow and tedious but no we are even faced with almost unreasonable requirements that we need to fulfill to start this club.

Now we need your support so this initiative can take off and please contact us through LinkedIN if you have an interest in Operations Management and want to join the club (in order to get it started :). This is real intrapreneurship!

The official LinkedIN Group is here.

ESADE is ranked at 15 globally in operations management stream( http://www.topmba.com/research/global_200_business_schools/global_business_schools_by_specialization/operations_management/