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What is meant by the term bootstrapping? Provide several examples of the ways that entrepreneurs bootstrap to raise money or cut costs?
 
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The What Went Wrong feature in Chapter 14 focuses on the failure of Crumbs Bake Shop, a specialty-restaurant chain that sold gourmet cupcakes. According to the feature, Crumbs failed due to ________.
 
  A) lack of funding to facilitate expansion, high real estate costs, management turnover, poor operating margins
  B) no pivot or change in strategy, lack of international expansion, trademark dispute with a competitor, failure to franchise
  C) increasingly crowded market, consumers started losing interest in cupcakes, high real estate costs, and no pivot or change in strategy
  D) lack of funding to facilitate expansion, management turnover, increasingly crowded market, and high fixed costs
  E) high operating costs, trademark dispute with a competitor, consumers started losing interest in cupcakes, and failure to franchise



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Answer to Question 1

Bootstrapping is the use of creativity, ingenuity, and any means possible to obtain resources other than borrowing money or raising capital from traditional sources. There are many ways entrepreneurs bootstrap to raise money or cut costs. Some of the more common examples include:
 Buy used instead of new equipment
 Coordinate purchases with other businesses
 Lease equipment rather than buying
 Obtain payments in advance from customers
 Minimize personal expenses
 Buy items cheaply, but prudently, through discount outlets or online auctions such as eBay
 Share office space or employees with other businesses
 Hire interns

Answer to Question 2

C



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