Rescheduled due to illness to April 9, 2010 8:15 – 5:00opm Special Offer for Groups and Organization Members Discounts are available for members of Bootstrappers Breakfast, Business Marketing Association, Women In Consulting, and organizations sending three or more employees: please contact us for discount codes. Create and Deliver Surprisingly Compelling Software Demonstrations “Do The Last […]
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In “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” Jenny Allen speaks candidly about surviving cancer.
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Create and Deliver Surprisingly Compelling Software Demonstrations “Do The Last Thing First” — the recipe for a Great Demo! When: Wednesday March 17, 2010 AM Session: 8:15 am – 1:00 pm PM Session: 1 – 5pm Advanced Topics (see below) Where: Moorpark Hotel, 4241 Moorpark Ave, San Jose CA 95129 This is an interactive workshop
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Second day at the Foresight 2010 conference on “Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)”
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A roundup of some very thought provoking presentations from the first day of the Foresight 2010 conference. Interesting predictions include a $100 DNA test.
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I will be at the Foresight 2010 conference on “Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)” this weekend and hope to blog some of the better sessions and anything else I learn. There is a twitter hashtag “#Foresight2010” you can use to follow conference tweets and the talks will also be broadcast on
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Recapping on my earlier “Federated Entrepreneurship” post from January 5. A federation is a union of partially self-governing units with a constitution that does not allow unilateral changes by a central governing body. I think it’s also a good model for what’s required to create an economically dynamic region. One parallel would be to a
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We have added two Holiday Bootstrapper Breakfasts in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. This year Christmas and New Year’s Day fell on the fourth Friday and first Friday of the month which collided with two regularly scheduled breakfasts (which have been canceled). Which means that we will have a total of four
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John Carter CEO of TCGen is speaking on “Doing the Math: How to Estimate and Manage Results” at IEEE-CNSV on Tuesday December 15 at 7pm at KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051. The event is free and open to the public.
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We have a few seats left for our Jan 12, 2010 Idea to Revenue workshop in Redwood Shores, CA. If you are in formation or the early days of your startup this is a good opportunity to spend four hours on your business with your team members. We help you ask each other the hard
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We are meeting in Mountain View at 9am at Red Rock Coffee for a Bootstrapper Breakfast: it’s the fourth Friday of the month. Take a break from the four day Thanksgiving weekend and join us Friday for a Bootstrapper Breakfast in Mountain View at Red Rock Coffee. It may be a more intimate session for
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Just a quick reminder, the early bird rate ends next week for our Jan 12, 2010 Idea to Revenue workshop in Redwood Shores, CA. If you are in formation or the early days of your startup this is a good opportunity to spend four hours on your business with your team members. We help you
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We had a good “Getting More Customers” workshop today, here is the feedback that we gathered and a heads-up on some plans for 2010. We added three numeric ratings to our feedback form this time (which shrank the space for comments). Numeric Ratings (1 Poor to 5 Excellent) Importance of Topic: 4.75 Content: 4.75 Quality
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Marc Smith proposes four key roles for managing a wiki or other social media platform: domain expert, diplomat, editor, and vandal hunter.
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Just a quick reminder that today is the last day for early bird rates on our “Getting More Customers – A 90 Day Plan” workshop that is Saturday October 24 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) at the Pacific Business Center 1250 Oakmead Pkwy Suite 210 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 501-8800 Click here to
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I will be taking part in an SVASE panel on the lean startup concept entitled “Lean Startups–Do They Really Work” on Thursday October 29 at Cooley Godward in San Francisco.
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Update Jan-3: Sold out. Tues. Jan. 12, 2010 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Fortis General Counsel One Lagoon Drive, Suite 100 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 650-489-0850 Register Invest four hours now to save months later finding a path to revenue: most startups fail after they have working functionality but before they find their market. You
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Lenny Greenberg, a serial entrepreneur and frequent Bootstrappers Breakfast® attendee will lead our discussion this Friday about taking a long term view in business. All too often high-tech companies don’t take a long term view of their product. In the initial rush to get something to someone, companies may make tactical product choices that may
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I very much enjoyed the opportunity to present our startup stages model and the “Software Startup Maturity Checklist” at Silicon Valley Code Camp today. I have posted the slides here.
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Here is the outline and slides from my talk at SFBay ACM on “Limits of I’ll Know it When I see it” about the fundamentals in applying expertise effectively.
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