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December Bootstrapper Breakfasts Recap 2011 To Prepare for 2012

We have four Silicon Valley Bootstrappers Breakfasts® scheduled in the last two weeks of December. All of these Bootstrapper Breakfasts will feature a facilitated roundtable conversation among bootstrapping entrepreneurs, a chance to network before and after the formal meeting, and the opportunity to compare notes with other bootstrapping entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast. At a …

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Zoom In For Traction, Zoom Out For Impact

Your startup is  a work in progress.  When most entrepreneurs evaluate where they are it’s difficult not to include the promising future they foresee naturally ensuing from current efforts (or on bad days the certain doom no matter what they do). If you are not getting traction, if you don’t have the ability to reliably …

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Anne Rozinat of Fluxicon Joins Business Book Panel for “Second Economy”

“Every so often—every 60 years or so—a body of technology comes along and over several decades, quietly, almost unnoticeably, transforms the economy: it brings new social classes to the fore and creates a different world for business…something deep is going on with information technology, something that goes well beyond the use of computers, social media, …

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Start Black Friday at the Bootstrappers Breakfast in Mountain View

Do your shopping on-line and avoid the crowds, then drop by the Bootstrappers Breakfast® in Mountain View this Friday at 9am at Red Rock Coffee. We will be upstairs in our usual location in the corner to the left of the staircase. A Bootstrappers Breakfast allows you to Take part in a serious roundtable conversation among …

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Veterans Day 2011

On Veterans Day 2011 we honor those who have served in the military and lived: thanks for putting your life on the line for all the things we hold dear.

Seth Godin’s “Bootstrapper’s Manifesto”

In Seth Godin’s “Bootstrapper Bible” he has this short manifesto that really is worth reading periodically. We will be discussing this at next week’s Book Club for Business Impact with several bootstrappers: I am a bootstrapper. I have initiative and insight and guts, but not much money. I will succeed because my efforts and my …

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Perfectionism vs. Mastery

Perfectionism vs. Mastery Mastery’s great accomplishments require time and a willingness to release a sequence of prototypes. Perfectionism means you don’t ship until it’s perfect. Which means you never ship or what you ship has not learned from problems or needs that only visible post deployment. Randall Munroe’s “The General Problem” embeds this observation: “I …

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Stay Tuned! We Are Being Purposefully Vague Right Now

I came across an interesting tool this week in the collaboration area. The web page invited me to apply for membership, prompting me to enter my e-mail, twitter handle, blog, and a brief bio. But they were “purposefully vague’ about who they were. It wasn’t exactly stealth mode, more like maintaining deniability if it failed …

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Geva Solomonovich of Fraud Sciences at Fri-Nov-4 BB

Geva Solomonowich, an early employee at Fraud Sciences and several other startups joins us tomorrow to share lessons learned getting early customers and growing the business. Francis Adanza interviewed him on the Bootstrapper Breakfast blog in mid-October, here are some excerpts: Francis: Prior to Fraud Sciences, what were you doing? Geva: Before Fraud Sciences I …

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Planning for 2012: We Are Interested In Your Insights and Suggestions

We are starting our planning process for 2012 even as we scramble to finish everything still on the cooker for 2011.  We have meetings scheduled with our partners to help us assess what we have learned from 2011 and arrive at a working consensus for 2011-13. I welcome any suggestions for: How to improve this …

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Dave Stubenvoll Guest for “Origin & Evolution of New Business” Oct-26-2011

Our “Book Club For Business Impact” promises actionable insights for entrepreneurs and change agents, drawn from the panelist’s experience and informed by the book’s content. Dave Stubenvoll, CEO of Wowza Media, joins the discussion of Amar Bhide‘s “Origin and Evolution of New Business” this Wednesday October 26 at Noon PDT.  Click  http://skmbhide111026.eventbrite.com/?discount=WowzaMedia to attend at …

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