Bootstrap Student has been founded by Ryan Pitylak and Michael Griffin - both students at University of Texas and bootstrappers.

We hope this effort inspires students around the world to set up bootstrap chapters in their schools.

This is the week for Bootstrap press! Here is an article by Andrew Park that just came out in the Business Week Small Business Quarterly. Unfortunately, it's still only available to Business Week subscribers.

Here are the slides from the recent Bootstrap panel featuring fellow bootstrappers Neelan Choksi, Tina Schweiger, Dave Wolpert and myself. Audio of the panel is available on the SXSW website, Heathis.com and iTunes (Boot Rap podcast).

It was fascinating to see the emergence of bootstrapping as a theme at this year's SXSW. All the keynotes touched on bootstrapping in one way or another, especially Jim Coudal/Jason Fried and Burnie Burns.

Great article by Jim Pethokoukis on Bootstrapping featuring quotes from Greg Gianforte, Bruce Judson and me. Greg and Bruce are part of our "Bootstrap Champions" list.

Scott is the Entrepreneurs Guide at About.com and also the author of a The Virtual Handshake. Scott interviewed me at the recent SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin where I moderated the Boostrap panel. Here's the podcast of the interview.

Vivek is a serial entrepreneur who is currently an adjunct faculty member at Duke's Business School. He writes a regular column on entrepreneurship in BusinessWeek. I couldn't agree more with his perspective on bootstrapping.