Opportunities for Serious Conversation at DAC 2009

One of the great opportunities that a conference affords is face to face conversation among knowledgeable people. It’s not that technologies for conversation and collaboration at a distance are not effective, but they are more effective if they build on face to face conversations. Conferences allow for both serendipity and structure in serious conversations. At …

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Bootstrappers Breakfast Is Now a Registered Trademark

“Bootstrappers Breakfast” was registered June 23, 2009 as a trademark of SKMurphy, Inc. “For education services, namely providing live and on-line seminars, workshops, and mentoring sessions in the field of entrepreneurship.” No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “breakfast” apart from “Bootstrappers Breakfast.” Details as they unfold: we will do six breakfasts …

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Craig Shirley on “Negotiating with Key Accounts” Tue-Jun-16 in Sunnyvale

Craig Shirley on “Negotiating with Key Accounts” Tue-Jun-16 in Sunnyvale Craig Shirley, VP of Sales at Apache Design Solutions has attended a couple of Bootstrapper Breakfasts® in 2009 and always gives very practical advice on sales and negotiation issues. No surprise, he has more than two decades of experience in sales and sales management and …

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Conference Call on Customer Development for Entrepreneurs Thu-Jun-18

Brant Cooper and I are doing another conference call for entrepreneurs actively engaged in customer development. We facilitated one on June 3 and  have another planned for 1pm Thursday June 18. To participate, you must: be actively engaged in practicing customer development principles; clearly articulate one or two issues that you would like to discuss; …

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We’ve Been Recognized by EE Times as a Trusted Sources Blog

We have been invited to join the “EE Times Trusted Sources” list of blogs. At the discretion of EE Times editors a blog post may be selected from one recently published and a capsule summary placed in their “Trusted Sources” area. EET has characterized the section as follows. This section features posts from around the …

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4 Spots Left for Robert Dang at Bootstrapper’s Breakfast on Friday

Robert Dang, partner and attorney at Fortis General Counsel, http://www.fortisgc.com returns to our Bootstrapper Breakfast™ this Friday, June 5 at Hobee’s Palo Alto (4224 El Camino Real) at 7:30 am. Robert will answer questions and discuss the legal issues facing entrepreneurs in today’s economy. Fortis is a startup friendly firm and endorsed by attendees. Rob’s …

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Conference Call on Customer Development For Entrepreneurs Wed-Jun-3

One of the challenges with customer development is that it involves not only formulating and testing hypotheses about your customer and their specific needs but also uncovering hidden assumptions that may be holding your team back. If you feel you’ve hit a brick wall in your efforts please sign up for a free teleconference session …

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John Sanguinetti on an EDA Startup’s First Product

John Sanguinetti was the founder and CEO of Chronologic Simulation, a startup that developed a compiled code approach to Verilog simulation. I am working on an interview with John and came across a very interesting position statement he gave as a part of a panel at DAC 98 called “The EDA Startup Experience: The First …

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