How To Bootstrap Your Start-Up at ASL Mar-27-2013: I have been invited by the Emerging Business Group at Abbott, Stringham and Lynch to give a talk on “How to Bootstrap Your Start-Up.”
How To Bootstrap Your Start-Up at ASL Mar-27-2013
Update Mar-27-2013: Slides and audio for this event are now available at “Slides and Audio from How To Bootstrap at ASLCPA Mar 27”
I have been invited by the Emerging Business Group at Abbott, Stringham and Lynch to give a talk on “How to Bootstrap Your Start-Up.”
If you are a technology entrepreneurs who doesn’t fit the typical profile for a first time VC investment you can find it very difficult to generate interest in a business that is still at the planning stage. If you persevere because you want to solve a critical problem or create new possibilities for your customers, you need to start building your business with only limited financial resources.
Bootstrapping does not preclude seeking investment when your active business merits and requires it. But it starts by making a difference and building a real business as proof of both the need for and the value of your products.
I will addresses what you and your team need to do to bootstrap your business: to find early customers and early revenue using internal cash flow and organic profits. I will draw on my experiences with clients at SKMurphy, Inc. and insights I have gleaned from the more than 250 Bootstrapper Breakfasts I have attended since October of 2006. The ASL Emerging Business Seminars are famous for being very interactive and mine will be no exception: I welcome your questions and insights if you are able to join us.
Date: March 27, 2013
Time: 11:30 am Lunch / 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Presentation
Where: 1550 Leigh Ave., San Jose, CA 95125
Cost: Free
Register: closed
Announcement on ASLCPA site
How to Bootstrap Your Start-Up
An ASL Emerging Business Group Best Practices Seminar
March 27, 2013
11:30 am – Networking & Lunch
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Presentation
1550 Leigh Ave., San Jose, CA 95125
For entrepreneurs that need to demonstrate traction in order to generate investor interest, that don’t fit the typical Angel or VC investment profile, or perhaps, don’t even want outside investors, knowing how to bootstrap your start-up is a crucial skill for entrepreneurial success. This seminar will address how to find early customers and early revenue using internal cash flow and organic profits.
Speaker: Sean Murphy, CEO, SKMurphy, Inc.
Sean Murphy, CEO of SKMurphy, Inc. has taken an entrepreneurial approach to life since he could drive. He has served as an advisor to dozens of startups, helping them explore risk-reducing business options and build a scalable, repeatable sales process. SKMurphy, Inc. focuses on early customers and early revenue for software startups, helping engineers to understand business development. Their clients have offerings in electronic design automation, artificial intelligence, web-enabled collaboration, proteomics, text analytics, legal services automation, and medical services workflow.
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