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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.
January 2nd, 2010
Events are sorted by day of the month they occur on. Mountain View location is 4 blocks from Caltrain.
| Palo Alto (1st Friday at 7:30am) |
Hobee’s Restaurant Map
4224 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, 94306
(650) 856-6124
| Sunnyvale (2nd Tuesday at 7:30am) |
Coco’s Restaurant Map
1206 Oakmead Parkway
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
(408) 736-289
| Milpitas (2nd Friday at 7:30am) |
Omega Restaurant Map
90 South Park Victoria Dr
Milpitas, CA 95035
| Dublin/Pleasanton (4th Thursday at 7:30am) |
Athens Burger Restaurant Map
6999 Dublin Boulevard
Dublin, CA
| Mountain View (4th Friday at 9:00am) |
Red Rock Coffee Map
201 Castro Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Public Transit Tips
November 30th, 2009
GigaOM and PEER 1 are sponsoring a outstanding free panel on “Future of Web Infrastructure for Startups” Thursday December 3 at GigaOM HQ, 217 2nd Street, Floor 4, San Francisco, CA 94105
For a startup, the infrastructure choices made in the early days have a lasting impact. Do you go for a hosting platform where you give up creative control but gain the promise of super-scalability? Or do you ensure you know your platform in detail by rolling out and maintaining your own hardware and software stacks? With the advent of cloud computing and recent trends toward hybrid hosting models, the choices and questions are growing each day.
We will discuss future trends of platforms and new options for startups as the concepts behind hosting evolve into more niche infrastructure-on-demand services. This session is for entrepreneurs, technologists and developers in the web arena who want to know which direction web infrastructure is taking next.
It’s an outstanding panel:
- Jason Hoffman, CTO, Joyent
- Byron Sebastian, CEO, Heroku
- Sebastian Stadil, founder, Scalr
- Robert Miggins, SVP, Serverbeach
- Tom Mornini, CTO and Co-Founder, Engine Yard
When: Dec. 3, 2009 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Breakfast at 9 a.m.)
Free Registration: http://infrastructure.eventbrite.com
November 11th, 2009
Kevin Rochowski e-mailed us that there will be a Startup Weekend Fri-Nov-20 at 6pm through Sun-Nov-22 at 10pm at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View.
Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.
Several bootstrappers have attended earlier Startup Weekend events and found them to be energizing and educational. Register with the code “meetupdiscount” to save 30%
October 4th, 2009
We have over 100 members in the LinkedIn group for Bootstrappers Breakfast! Anyone who has attended a breakfast is welcome to join.
September 7th, 2009
Mark your calendars on Friday Oct. 9, 2009, Lenny Greenberg, a serial entrepreneur and frequent Bootstrappers Breakfast attendee will lead our morning discussion about taking a long term view in business. All too often high-tech companies don’t take a long term view of their product. In the initial rush to get something to someone, companies may make tactical product choices that may hurt their long term viability. Lenny will provide a strategic framework for making decisions about product direction. Lenny is currently CEO at Assistyx.
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.
Event: Friday Oct. 9, 2009 7:30 am, Milpitas, CA
Click to Register
August 13th, 2009
Startup Weekend– Friday, August 28, 2009 at 6:00 PM – Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Startup Weekend is a conference focusing on learning by creating
Sponsors provide the space and brain fuel — attendees bring the energy and innovation to build something big over the weekend. It is known for its quick decisions, ‘out of the box’ thinking, unique facilitation technique and letting the founders show what they can do. The program has already met with success worldwide.
The participants who attend a Startup Weekend decide what they want to tackle over the weekend and come out at the end with several developed companies or projects. Attendees are responsible for bringing the same desire and passion to the project and walk out of the room with the task at hand, in a short 54 hours. Sound intense? It is.
How this Startup Weekend works:
After initial panel discussion from speakers, teams form early with a self-selection process around ideas that they think are interesting and would like to work on for the weekend. Ideally, you’d like a group between 5 and 10 people — but groups of 2 or as large as 20 are acceptable. (Teams are not limited to working on web only applications. Generally, these make the most sense given the nature of the weekend and those who register. But if you really feel like working on that new cupcake business, go for it!)
Concepts are discussed and developed – prototypes are built — Special guest drop-ins (generally generally angel investors, VCs, or sponsoring companies) hear pitches and business plans from the teams.
Weekend ends with a presentation from each company. Talk about what worked, what didn’t, what could go better. – There will be “cool” giveaways and prize money to the wining team. Perhaps your winning team will be continue to work together. For more information http://startupweekend.com/
REGISTRATION and official agenda and more information: http://w2sf.startupweekend.org/
Limited number of Bootstrapper Breakfast Members 20% discounts. Contact us for code.
August 12th, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Sean Murphy, CEO of SKMurphy, Inc., will speak at Bootstrapper’s Breakfast(R) August 21, 2009 in San Francisco. ‘Join other entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast’ on August 21, 2009 at Boudin Bakery, 4 Embarcadero Center at 7:30 a.m. Please register as seating is limited.
Sean will lead a roundtable discussion on Early Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make when starting their business. Attendees are invited to share their own mistakes and participate in this lessons-learned topic.
Sean Murphy 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, Inc., 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.
“At a Bootstrappers Breakfast we have serious conversations about growing a technology business based on internal cash flow and organic profit. You will find this group to include a seasoned venue of serial entrepreneurs, C-level execs and passionate innovation people for coffee and good conversation. The format starts with introductions and a roundtable discussion about business issues the group brings up. Think of it as sort of an ‘informal board’ to run ideas off of and get insight on a variety of topics. We have been offering the breakfasts for years in Silicon Valley and now offer two in San Francisco,” said Brandon Farrell, facilitator of San Francisco’s Bootstrapper’s Breakfast.
Please register at https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jqdbn as seating is limited.
June 14th, 2009
Mark your calendars on Friday June 19, 2009, San Francisco’s Boudin Bakery will host a Bootstrappers BreakfastTM event.
Location: Boudin Bakery (415) 362-3330
4 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, 94111
Time: Friday, June 19th at 7-9 am.
We start at 7, but it’s a casual setting if you are running late.
The facilitator of San Francisco’s Bootstrappers Breakfast is Brendon Farrell. Brendon has been advising business owners and C-level execs on reducing operations cost and smart outsourcing since 2001. Brendon has a background including being a successful entrepreneur, a manager and a senior consultant to companies with an innovative focus. He has a unique ability to understand the business issues and translate them into actionable cost savings and profit generating programs. Please join Brendon on this quest to support other entrepreneurs, deliver valuable insight and resource opportunities.
You will find this group to include a seasoned venue of serial entrepreneurs, C-level execs and passionate innovation people for coffee and good conversation. The format involves a table, introductions and solving business issues as a group. Think of it as sort of an “informal board” to run ideas off of and get insight on a variety of topics. We have been operating this for years in the Silicon Valley and have been asked to offer in San Francisco. Register at https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jqqhh
Share a Cup of Coffee with Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems for Breakfast!
Brendon can be reached at 650-740-3974
June 1st, 2009
Robert Dang, partner and attorney at Fortis General Counsel, http://www.fortisgc.com returns to our Bootstrappers Breakfast™ this Friday, June 5 at Hobee’s Palo Alto (4224 El Camino Real) at 7;30 am. Robert will answer questions and discuss the legal issues facing entrepreneurs in today’s economy. Fortis is a startup friendly firm and endorsed by attendees.
Rob’s practice focuses on providing general counsel services to technology startups, with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, corporate governance and general business counseling. Rob currently serves on the Executive Committee of the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB). Have your questions ready for a great discussion.
Join Other Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast. RSVP now – this location fills up.
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