August 19th, 2010
A good brand is one of the strongest competitive advantages a company can have. While most bootstrappers won’t develop the cache of Nike’s swoosh logo, the ability to convey your product or service at an instance to potential customers is invaluable. Trademarks are one of the legal ways to protect your brand and build that competitive advantage.
For bootstrappers, knowing when to trademark and how to do it affordably is a common question. Thursday August 26th at 7:30 AM, Mr. Pete Tormey will present a short introduction about trademarks and provide a framework for working them into a startup business plan. Mr. Tormey is a former bootstrapper and is now a patent attorney practicing in the San Francisco Bay area.
Thursday August 26th at 7:30 AM
Athens Burger Restaurant
6999 Dublin Boulevard
Dublin, CA
August 18th, 2010
Here are different ways fellow entrepreneurs are using LinkedIn. Are you taking advance of the full potential? And don’t forget to join the Bootstrappers Breakfast Linked Group. Check out our other polls.
July 27th, 2010
I recently went to a great workshop by a fellow bootstrapper member Massimo Paolini. He has a special offer to other members. It is worth checking out.
Wordpress – From Start to Finish
Thursday, August 19, 2010
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (PT)
Mountain View, CA
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July 27th, 2010
I am working on a revolutionary, location-based offer platform and am looking for some co-founders with 1) large-scale consumer web platform development, 2) iPhone/Android/mobile app development, 3) product & UI design, and/or 4) business development & marketing expertise.
Interested parties contact us
July 26th, 2010
Verdafero is seeking a programmer for an interim project:
A web-developer and php-programmer to help with the development of a web application. Candidates must have expertise in PHP, MySQL and JavaScript and
experience in JavaScript tools such as Jquery. Experience with CodeIgniter a plus. Ability to work and fit within a small start-up team a must.
If you can help or know someone who would be interested in learning more:
Contact: Alistair Hood: alastair_hood@ash-ba.com
Verdafero: Verdafero offers consulting and software as a service (SaaS) tools for sustainable business development.
July 26th, 2010
MB Deans, CEO PalazzoTech, Inc. is looking to fill two slots: One for an AI Expert, the other a developer/data miner. Job postings follow.
Developer/AI Expert for Bootstrapping Start-Up
Have you been looking for a job where your opinion counts? Do you want to join a team where you can build a product from scratch? We need an expert like you who is:
- Familiar with the current body of work in Natural Language Processing
- Able to evaluate Bayesian, Neural Net and Support Vector technologies
- Comfortable assuming existing project and making it your own
You must be comfortable in a start-up environment, doing what needs to be done, and meeting deadlines with limited resources.
Please send a cover letter and resume to inquiry@palazzotech.com
Internet Developer with Data Mining Expertise
Have you been looking for a job where your opinion counts? Do you want to join a team where you can build a product from scratch? We need an expert like you who is:
- Familiar with some of the following technologies: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Prototype, jQuery, ExtJS, YUI, JSF, JSP, ADF, Servlet, Struts, Ruby/Rails, Oracle (5 years), MySQL(3 years), SQL Server , JPA, JDBC , Ruby(3 years), C++ (9 years), JavaScript, C, SQL, Win2K / WinXP , Linux
- Able to design, develop and implement information extraction, data normalization and de-duplication, and interfaces to MySQL or other RDMS
- Comfortable assuming existing project and making it your own
You must be comfortable in a start-up environment, doing what needs to be done, and meeting deadlines with limited resources.
Please send a cover letter and resume to inquiry@palazzotech.com
June 22nd, 2010
We had a great discussion last Friday about global teams and some of the issues we discussed have prompted this latest poll.
More polls
June 22nd, 2010
Attendees have remarked at a number of recent breakfasts that in many cases their customers are taking longer to pay than they did last year. Are you experiencing this?
June 11th, 2010
Take caltrain to Mountain View Station. 201 Castro Street is a 4 minutes walk from the caltrain station.