Just a quick note: I love bootstrapping a start-up in 2009.

All the routine tasks have just gotten so easy. SIP based telephony, Skype and Skype group chat for business partners that are distributed across the globe, Dropbox based file servers with integrated backup, local sync and automagic versioning, hosted Microsoft Exchange with iPhone push mail and calendaring, Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine for staging and testing incremental software releases and many other SaaS offerings just make life of an entrepreneur so much easier.

The single most important aspect of it for me is: It let’s you focus on the core of your new company.

In the past you needed office managers, an IT department and a whole lot of other stuff which did not directly contribute to the value of your undertaking – but very often to increasing cost.

At GrandCentrix (announcement impending) we leverage technology wherever possible; but focused on letting us concentrate on our core values.

The last two companies where I’ve been involved in the primary growth phase followed a more traditional path and it worked out fine, too.

However, I really do feel excited about setting things up differently and personally feel way more productive than ever.

By the way, there’s one thing we did VERY traditional, though: Our office :-)

Yesterday was our first office day in our new offices. Maybe purely coincidence but yesterday was also the day, the sun finally came back to the town where GrandCentrix is headquatered.

So far, bootstrapping in 2009 has been a great experience – against all odds!

I keep you posted. Thanks for all your feedback (predominantly via twitter these days).