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February 2nd, 2012
On February 28th, Brian Woodall of Lamplighter Financial will share his insights on the ‘Financial Preparation for Investor Deals’
Bring your questions on:
• Key due diligence items all investors consider
• How to approach investors
• Maximizing valuations
Location: Heavenly Café, 3116 Oak Rd, Walnut Creek, CA
Time: 7.30 am
Date: February 28th, 2012
Click here to register.
Brian Woodall is the Chief Executive Officer and the founder of Lamplighter Financial. He has been working with small companies for over 13 years in a wide range of finance roles. Brian has a unique blend of expertise in accounting, finance, and corporate transactions that fills a gap in the finance team of most small companies.
Prior to founding Lamplighter Financial in 2011, Brian served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for The Central Valley Fund, a private equity fund focused on investing in small, California-based companies. Prior to working in private equity, Brian worked in Grant Thornton’s Global Public Sector consulting group as a Senior Financial Analyst. He also worked for BearingPoint’s Communications and Content group as a Financial Analyst, focusing primarily on the telecom sector. Previously, Mr. Woodall ran an Internet start-up, TheBullseye.com, which focused on global financial markets. He was also an Associate in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ audit and consulting groups.
January 14th, 2012
San Diego Bootstrappers Breakfast group meets at 7:30am on 4th Friday of the month. January meeting will have a roundtable discussion focus on lesson learned and promises to provide useful advise for high-tech startups.
The roundtable meetings are moderated by Mark Fitchmun, founding partner principal of Somatek who is excited to foster technology entrepreneurship and to facilitate serious discussions of ideas and resources.
When: 7:30am Friday, January 27, 2012
Where: Coco’s Restaurant, 4280 Nobel Dr, San Diego, CA
Cost: price of your meal, tax, and tip. (Regular meetings will cost $5-$10 plus meal)
Register: http://www.meetup.com/Bootstrappers-Breakfast-San-Diego/events/44872842/
More about Mark Fitchmun, our San Diego moderator: he is a founding partner principal of Somatek, is a serial entreprenuer with over 25 years of experience in developing products for both biomedical research and FDA regulated clinical applications. Clinical projects have included antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, small recombinant proteins, and viruses. Research products have included assay kits and reagents, purification equipment and supplies.
November 8th, 2011
Bootstrappers Breakfast is sponsoring a new local group for high-tech entrepreneurs. The Champaign Bootstrappers Breakfast group has early morning meetings on 4th Wednesday of the month.
The roundtable meetings are moderated by Eyal Amir and Jeremy Leval. They are excited to foster tech entrepreneurship by facilitating communication to share ideas and resources.
“I’m the Co-Founding CEO of FasPark (the street-parking app), and a professor of computer science at the university of Illinois. I love making technology that changes people’s lives. Looking forward to meeting all of you entrepreneurs that dream big,” said Eyal Amir.
About your Champaign moderators:
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Eyal Amir is Co-Founding CEO of FasPark (AI Incube, Inc) and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD from Stanford University, and is the winner of multiple awards for his Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, including best PhD thesis in Computer Science at Stanford University (2001-2) and a Top-10 to Watch in AI by IEEE (2006). He is interested in entrepreneurship and technology that affects people’s lives. |
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Jeremy Leval is currently an MBA student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At the young age of ten, Jeremy started his first entrepreneurial venture, Megamix Productions, DJing birthday parties for grade school aged children with only two plastic disco balls and a karaoke machine. Within five years, Megamix Productions acquired professional equipment, grew its client base and became registered as a legal corporation in the state of Illinois.
Recently, Jeremy has started a student based ride sharing website called IlliniRides.com to meet the growing demand for ride sharing amongst students at the University while lowering transportation costs and promoting green travel. |
If you are interested in becoming a facilitator at one of our breakfast, please contact us. Moderator positions are volunteer and require facilitation skills and a demonstrated passion for entrepreneurship.
October 27th, 2011
Every month Corey Haines and Sarah Gray do a series of free office hours where we give technical advice on your project. We also host a “Dinner with Techies” through Grub With Us. This is modeled on a Bootstrappers Breakfast meeting — a small table of people discussing their technical issues, and getting advice from us and each other. They’re really fun: good food, good advice and meeting new people.
October 9th, 2011
Bootstrappers won’t like the recently enacted patent reform law. Called the America Invents Act, it was signed by President Obama on September 16. The law takes effect March 16, 2013. It provides for a “first to file” patent system. Currently a patent is awarded to the first person to invent and reduce the invention to practice, even if they file up to a year after invention. With the new law the patent will be awarded to the first person to file for the patent and the one year grace period will be gone.
While this might seem like no big deal to a bootstrapper, it is a serious handicap.
Pete Tormey will talk about ‘The New Patent Law’ and its implications on Bootstrappers.
Venue: Sandbox Suites, Union Square (567 Sutter Street)
Time: 8.30 am
Date: 21st October, 2011
Pete Tormey moderates our Walnut Creek breakfasts; he is also a patent attorney at Antero & Tormey LLP. He offered his analysis of the new patent law update, the America Invents Act (HR 1249 112th Congress), concluding that it is an unfavorable development for bootstrappers.
September 22nd, 2011
You don’t want to miss this one — on Tuesday Sept. 27, Shawn Green will join us to lead the roundtable discussion about your sales process.
Sales Repair Kit
• Pointers to help you avoid common errors in prospecting and selling.
• Practical tips for effective prospecting on a shoestring budget.
• Open forum to tackle the issues you need help with!
Date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Time: 7.30 am
Venue: Bootstrappers Breakfast Walnut Creek, Heavenly Cafe, 3116 Oak Road
About Shawn Greene
Shawn Greene is a sales performance expert and author of, “I’d rather have a root canal than do cold calling!” She’s had a successful sales training business since 1995 and built it using the same tools and methods she’ll share with us.
Shawn is well-known for providing practical, grounded advice in consultative style selling. Her humor and gentle approach will help you dump mindsets that hold you back. You’ll leave feeling energized and truly empowered. You can get a sneak peek at savageandgreene.com. Shawn also invites you to call her in advance of the meeting.
August 22nd, 2011
Justin Kaufenberg, CEO and Co-Founder of TST Media, will be joining us this Thursday (August 25th, 2011) to tell us about his entrepreneurial journey. TST just closed a round of financing with El Dorado Ventures but, as Justin said, “that was preceded by a couple of pretty gritty bootstrapping years.”
Link to news: http://tech.mn/news/2011/08/22/tst-media-el-dorado-ventures/
Venue: Wilde Roast Cafe – 65 Main St SE Minneapolis, MN
Time: 7.30 am – 9:00 am
Date: Thursday, August 25th,2011
July 24th, 2011
Matt Dornquast, Co-founder and CEO of Code 42 Software, will join us Thursday July 28th to share his experience building Code 42. From About Code 42
Starting out as a software development company in 2001, Code 42 Software is the creator of CrashPlan and CrashPlan PRO, the award-winning onsite, offsite and cloud backup solution for consumers and businesses.
Today we continue to deliver high-performance, easy-to-use hardware and software solutions that protect the world’s data.
This will be a great meeting.
Date: July 28th, 2011
Time: 7:30 -9 am
Venue: Wilde Roast Cafe 65 Main St SE, Minneapolis, MN
Hope to see you Thursday.
July 19th, 2011
Just a reminder that Tech Week starts Saturday. Just a reminder that we’ve increased the RSVP limit to 80 for next week. The breakfast tends fill up quickly the week before, so make sure to RSVP if you plan on attending. In addition to the large Breakfast we have planned for Wednesday, the 27th, there are several events lined up that should be must attends for bootstrappers:
Saturday 23rd
“Bootstrapped Entrepreneurs” panel by SPARK Chicago http://midwest.tie.org/
Sunday 24th
Lean Startup Circle with Hiten Shah http://www.chicagoleanstartup.com/events/18471361/
Monday 25th
Tech In Motion: http://www.meetup.com/TechinMotion/events/22974561/
Wednesday 27th
Bootstrappers Breakfast: http://www.meetup.com/Bootstrappers-Breakfast-Chicago/events/17498971/
SPARK Chicago Final Round: http://sparkkeynote-eorg.eventbrite.com/
Refresh Chicago with Corey Haines: http://www.meetup.com/Refresh-Chicago/events/15970788/
It’s going to be a great week for the Chicago technology scene in general as well as the startup scene in particular.
July 7th, 2011
Bootstrappers Breakfasts® group welcomes special guest – Deborah Shea who will share her “Billboards in the Desert” website tips.
The roundtable discussion will cover why you have a business website
- Increase your prospects list
- Convert more prospects into leads and customers
- And brand your business to drive the goals created above as a total process
Date: July 26th, 2011
Time: 7:30 -9 am
Venue: Heavenly Cafe 3116 Oak Road Walnut Creek, CA
As Hellbent’s CEO and President, Deb Shea provides oversight to all campaign development and execution, exploring with her team the confluence of creative design, strategy, function, and technology. She founded Hellbent Marketing in 2003 after many years in art and creative director roles within design studios and Silicon Valley tech companies that served a global market. In these positions Deb led teams that spanned Europe, India and Asia, inspiring collaboration among multiple language and cultural groups and creating new graphical standards for online design. This deep experience in brand strategy and outbound marketing materials for sales, web, trade, video and print production is the foundation of Hellbent Marketing. After five years of steady growth, a stream of happy, repeat clients and more than 130 awards for excellence in marketing and creative design, Hellbent added extensive online and SEO expertise services in 2008.
She is the Immediate Past President of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) in Silicon Valley and on the Board of Directors for the Peninsula Symphony and the Redwood City Education Foundation. Chosen by the Silicon Valley Business Times as a “2010 100 Top Women of Influence,” Deb was also named a 2010 Top Woman Entrepreneur by Women Entrepreneur Magazine. In 2010, Hellbent Marketing received multiple American Graphic Design honors from the prestigious Graphic Design USA magazine and the 2009 Business of the Year Award from NAWBO-SV.
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