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January 31st, 2011
RSVP now – this location fills up.
Robert Dang, partner and attorney at Fortis General Counsel, http://www.fortisgc.com returns to our Bootstrappers Breakfast™ Friday, February 4 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.
January 22nd, 2011
Chicago Tech Calendar is a great collection of meetups, hackathons and general happenings here in Chicago. http://chicagotechcal.com/
January 19th, 2011
WALNUT CREEK, Sean Murphy, CEO of SKMurphy, Inc. will lead the discussion “Bootstrapping a technology startup: what’s the minimum you need to do to make your first dollar”. Attendees are invited to share their own tips and participate in this lessons-learned topic.
‘Join other entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast’ on January 25, 2011 at 7:30 a.m. Please register as seating is limited.
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.
January 17th, 2011
Ogden Lily and Kevin Epes from Boitano, Sargent, and Lily will be joining us January 18th in Sunnyvale to answer questions on accounting and tax issues for startups.
January 10th, 2011
Robert Dang, partner and attorney at Fortis General Counsel, http://www.fortisgc.com returns to our Bootstrappers Breakfast™ Friday, February 4 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.
January 8th, 2011
Ogden Lily and Kevin Epes from Boitano, Sargent, and Lily will be joining us January 18th in Sunnyvale to answer questions on accounting and tax issues for startups. BSL has been serving Silicon Valley businesses for six decades: Ogden and Kevin are CPA’s with the firm. Some of the issues that they are prepared to address:
- Moving your accounting into the cloud with Quickbooks on-line
- Understanding the accounting implications of different corporate forms: LLC vs. C vs. Sub-S; CA vs. DE
- Deductibility of business expenses
- 401K options for bootstrappers
- When to incorporate
Bring your questions and remember if this if your first year to file business taxes the deadline is March 15 not April 15.
December 29th, 2010
On February 11, 2010 Isaac Garcia, co-founder and CEO of Central Desktop will join Bootstrappers Breakfast® as our featured guest. Central Desktop, founded in 2005, delivers a cloud-based social collaboration platform. Their online collaboration solution helps businesses manage projects and documents in the cloud with colleagues, customers and partners.
Isaac oversees business strategy and sales for the company. Isaac has a proven record in both early-stage technology companies and enterprise sales & marketing. He was a founding partner at Upgradebase, where he oversaw all business development and sales for the company. Isaac served as a Director of North America Enterprise Sales for CNET Channel. He was responsible for the acquisition, sales and management of global partnerships with Microsoft, Google, eBay, Yahoo and Best Buy. Isaac led and managed CNET’s global partnership with Microsoft to launch the Windows Marketplace campaign in 14 countries. He received a BA in English from Ambassador University and a Master s degree in English Literature from the University of Northern Colorado.
Today Isaac will discuss “Lesson’s Learned in Bootstrapping Central Desktop.” Some key points he will cover include:
1. Be patient. It takes longer than you’d expect to start generating “meaningful” revenue so you need to be personally and financially ready for this.
2. Outsourcing is overrated. Key functions like product design, engineering and sales need to initially come from the founders because the voice and purpose of your company and its products cannot be fully understood by a third party.
3. Tenacity and dedication are what will most likely determine whether or not you are successful.
December 20th, 2010
Ogden Lily and Kevin Epes from Boitano, Sargent, and Lily will be joining us January 18th in Sunnyvale to answer questions on accounting and tax issues for startups. BSL has been serving Silicon Valley businesses for six decades: Ogden and Kevin are CPA’s with the firm. Some of the issues that they are prepared to address:
- Moving your accounting into the cloud with Quickbooks on-line
- Understanding the accounting implications of different corporate forms: LLC vs. C vs. Sub-S; CA vs. DE
- Deductibility of business expenses
- 401K options for bootstrappers
- When to incorporate
Bring your questions and remember if this if your first year to file business taxes the deadline is March 15 not April 15.
November 30th, 2010
We have scheduled two Bootstrappers Breakfasts during the week between Christmas and New Years. Both will start at 9:00am
- Monday, December 27 — Red Rock Coffee, Mountain View. 9:00am-10:30 am
- Thursday, December 30 — Coco’s Sunnyvale, 9:00am-10:30 am
The Chicago and Minneapolis breakfasts are on different days from their normal times for December: the Chicago breakfast is on Wed-Dec-29-2010 and Minneapolis is on Thu-Dec-16-2010
Remember: NO Bootstrappers Breakfast meeting on Friday, December 24.
November 17th, 2010
Often we ask attendees to tell us one thing they learned from this morning’s bootstrapper’s breakfast. Here’s a couple … and please add your own!
“I am always surprised by how much I learn in two hours. The quality and enthusiasm of people that show up and the things I find out that I never knew about and how time flies.” – Dorai
“I was impressed with this group. People really took time to brainstorm around the issues I face in developing and marketing my local search web application. It’s one thing when people advise you to ‘focus’ – but its entirely different when they say ‘focus like this’. Great actionable advice. Great networking too” – Tom
“This was my first time to participate in a Bootstrappers Breakfast meeting and I was impressed with the quality of advice that was provided to the entrepreneurs. The challengers facing an entrepreneur were discussed and some great ideas were exchanged. What a great community for entrepreneurs.” – Herman
Want to read more — check out:
One Thing I Learned 2010 & 2009
One Thing I Learned 2008
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