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Competitive Advantage: Trademarks

Add comment 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

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Getting More Out of LinkedIn

Add comment 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.

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Consultants: How does your web traffic rate compare to other consultants?

Add comment August 10th, 2010

A couple of our favorite FREE tools:

Request more tips for promoting your website.

Can we publish your website if you are a top site?  <<Yes

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Wordpress – From Start to Finish

Add comment 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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Looking for co-founders

Add comment 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

Verdafero Seeking Programmer

Add comment 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.

Wanted: AI Expert & Developer

Add comment 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

Managing Global Teams

1 comment 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.


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Are Customers Taking Longer To Pay?

Add comment 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?

Public Transit Tips for Mountain View Meetings

1 comment June 11th, 2010

Take caltrain to Mountain View Station.  201 Castro Street is a 4 minutes walk from the caltrain station.

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