Author Archive
February 11th, 2010
Leonard (Lenny) Greenberg is Founder and CTO of Assistyx LLC, a software company specializing in products for non-verbal autistic children. Prior to that, he was co-founder and CTO of Pathlore Software Corporation. Lenny led technology direction and development at a variety of enterprise software start ups including HxManagement, Sigma Imaging Systems, Document Automation Corporation and Instinet. He started his career in the Cleveland, OH office of Accenture with a specialty in banking and law firm Automation.
February 11th, 2010
Massimo Paolini is the owner and principal analyst of MPThree Consulting, a web analytics business based in Silicon Valley. He speaks at various organizations on the power of social media and works with several businesses around the country to increase their web presences, understand their site traffic, and improve profitability.
February 11th, 2010
Elaine Levenson has been on the Bootstrappers Breakfast team since 2008. With over 20 years experience in the sales and marketing at Amdahl/Fujitsu, Borland Software, and various startups, Elaine recognizes the importance of strategic planning. Her strong organizational and management skills have been instrumental in the organization’s growth. She handles the details behind the Bootstrappers Breakfast operations, and will answer any of your organizational questions and issues.
February 4th, 2010
Join us on Tuesday, February 16, in Sunnyvale where George Grellas will present a short legal guide for entrepreneurs (Register at https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jnjns).
George is a veteran Silicon Valley startup business lawyer who heads a boutique firm that specializes in early-stage technology startups. Since 1984, as a founders’ lawyer, George has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs in helping them with their strategic planning, entity formation, IP protection, funding, acquisitions, and the whole range of their startup legal needs involving both deals and disputes. He is the author of the Startup Law 101 Series of tutorials for founders and entrepreneurs.
George’s style is practical, direct, and down-to-earth, emphasizing a strong working knowledge of technical issues (including tax) explained in a manner that is made understandable and helpful for those new to startups as well as for seasoned entrepreneurs.
Bring your questions for George and the other entrepreneurs around the table. There will be time for your general questions and concerns as always.
February 2nd, 2010
Kevin Spreng is an entrepreneur and a business lawyer. Over the last 20 years Kevin has focused his career on working with tech oriented entrepreneurs and the investors that help them build businesses. He has been lead counsel in hundreds of financing and acquisitions transactions and has worked as in house counsel to a global venture capital firm. Kevin helps his clients with technology transactions, financings, acquisitions and general corporate matters. Along the way Kevin has also founded several companies and learned first-hand the benefits of bootstrapping.
February 2nd, 2010
Justin Bacon is new to the world bootstrapping. He had the good fortune to be introduced to the work of Steve Blank and Eric Ries in 2009. Since then he has pursued his interest in working within the software tech startup community in his home town of Minneapolis, MN by volunteering to help bring Bootstrappers Breakfast to the Twin Cities. He is excited about participating and helping to facilitate an active community of early stage software entrepreneurs through the Bootstrappers Breakfast meetings while being eager to learn along the way.
February 2nd, 2010
Steven Moody, a modern entrepreneur, Steven works in online marketing by day i365, and develops niche web businesses at night, StevenMoody.com . At i365, A Seagate Company, Steven is responsible for Google AdWords initiatives. When he isn’t paying the bills, Steven launches web businesses, and is currently developing two in the travel and music industries. If you have a patent for a medical device providing optimal caffeine intake, he can be reached at narcoleptic@stevenmoody.com Steven is currently working on a MBA from San Jose State.
February 2nd, 2010
Tim Kennedy provides business and legal counsel to entrepreneurs and startups. His firm, Law Office of Timothy I. Kennedy provides entity formation, intellectual property strategy, drafting and reviewing contractual agreements. Tim is an experienced business professional who decided to go to law school. He spent years working as a Financial Analyst and Business Analyst for Juniper Networks, NetScreen Technologies and Franklin Templeton Group. This experience has cultivated flexibility in his approach to business problems, a flexibility which can help you in your efforts to establish and grow your business.
January 18th, 2010
Brendon Farrell works with innovative companies to help them reduce operating cost and increase revenues. Brendon is an entrepreneur, starting a company in high school and has served in management roles in commercial real estate, a tech company, Classified Ventures and TriNet. Currently at TriNet, Brendon serves approximately 300 clients providing human capital consulting, funding trail metrics, banking relationships, and international build out/operations. Brendon comes from a family of innovators and drinks innovation and new ideas with every meal of the day. Feel free to reach out to Brendon for guidance or to share a “drink of innovation”.
January 18th, 2010
Sean Murphy, founder of Bootstrappers Breakfast, has taken an entrepreneurial approach to life since he could drive. He has served as an advisor to dozens of startups, helping them explore new options and bring their businesses to new levels. His firm, SKMurphy, focuses on early customers and early revenue for software startups, helping engineers to understand business development. His 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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