Since this economic downturn has started, many entrepreneurs are having hard times trying to find the money needed to launch their ventures.  Enter bootstrapping.  I define bootstrapping as the communal effort of many entrepreneurs and people to breath life into other’s ventures.  You scratch my back, I scratch your back.  One of the big backers of the bootstrapping effort, Bijoy Goswami, has a nice video describing bootstrapping on YouTube.  Kevin Koym of Tech Ranch Austin, uses the metaphor of farmers helping build their barns.  Farmers would rely on each other to help build their barns and were very willing to help their neighbor.

I am a software developer, with much experience with Microsoft’s .Net Framework (2.0/3.0/3.5).  I’ve worked on projects ranging from architecting financial applications using WPF, WCF, Windows services, and an ASP.Net web application, to small websites using the new ASP.Net MVC Framework.  If it is something you can program with a Microsoft .Net technology, I can do it.  I also have expert experience in database modeling with MS SQL Server and MySQL, including the configuration of the servers, writing stored procedures and triggers, and deployments of these solutions.

I would be more than happy to help a fellow entrepreneur figure out the architecture of an application or help review a database schema and anything in between.  I can help you figure out things before you pull the trigger on some $50k piece of software.

So here’s my call to action: What can you do?  What do you need?  Post it here as a comment, write a blog post, do something to get the word out!  The more people involved in this communal effort, the higher chance of success for us all!