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January 11th, 2012
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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.
When Jeremy was sixteen years old, he realized there was a growing demand for graphic work in the eBay seller community. In an attempt to capitalize on this opportunity, Jeremy taught himself graphic design and eventually grew his client base to over one hundred clients (including such manufacturers as Everlast Generators , VR3, and Salamander Sound Innovations Inc.). While working with these manufacturers, Jeremy learned their process for contacting, coordinating and negotiating with international manufacturing facilities.
By his second year as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jeremy had successfully imported consumer electronics and glass art from China, India and Nepal. 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.. |
October 28th, 2010
“We are excited to support the strong entrepreneur culture in Chicago,” said Sean Murphy, founder of the Bootstrappers Breakfast group. “We were delighted when Griffin Caprio volunteered to moderate the Bootstrappers Breakfast meetings.”
Griffin is a technologist and entrepreneur who has been helping companies of all shapes and sizes with their technology needs for more than a decade. Since 2008, he has been running two companies here in Chicago. With clients ranging in size from startups to Fortune 500, 1530 Technologies has been leading development teams, providing lean consulting and developing mobile and enterprise applications. Alternatively, he’s pioneering the concept of A Part Time CTO for startups and small companies in the area, specializing in consumer facing and mobile technology teams. He also runs the Chicago Lean Startup Circle and Chicago Semantic Web Meetup and still has never turned down a game of foosball.
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October 18th, 2010
Pete Tormey is a registered patent attorney who specializes in providing patents for Software, Electronics, Life Science Instrumentation and Business Methods. Pete has co-founded two companies and brings extensive experience in both engineering and marketing to our meetings.
About Antero & Tormey
Antero & Tormeys provides fast affordable patent protection to young companies and entrepreneurs. As an experienced entrepreneur, Mr. Tormey is rare among patent agents and attorneys because he provides solid financial analysis on the value of patents before recommending patent protection. Mr. Tormey has an MBA in Marketing from St. Mary’s College in California, and a BS Electronic Engineering from San Francisco State University. He practices exclusively before the US Patent Office.
June 1st, 2010
Dr. Richard Moerschell received a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. During the course of his studies he developed the technique for transforming yeast directly with synthetic oligonucleotides. In his studies, he has determined the specificity of methionine aminopeptidase and co-discovered the first N-terminal acetyltransferase. He went on to post-doctoral positions at Osaka University and Harvard Medical School where he studied ATP dependent proteases and chaperones. He has over 15 years experience in the life science industry in roles marketing and R&D. Dr. Moerschell is registered to practice as a patent agent with the US Patent Office. www.molecularpurity.com
February 11th, 2010
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.
February 11th, 2010
Massimo Paolini is the owner and principal analyst of MPThree Consulting, a web analytics business based in Silicon Valley. He speaks at various organizations on the power of social media and works with several businesses around the country to increase their web presences, understand their site traffic, and improve profitability.
February 11th, 2010
Elaine Levenson has been on the Bootstrappers Breakfast team since 2008. With over 20 years experience in the sales and marketing at Amdahl/Fujitsu, Borland Software, and various startups, Elaine recognizes the importance of strategic planning. Her strong organizational and management skills have been instrumental in the organization’s growth. She handles the details behind the Bootstrappers Breakfast operations, and will answer any of your organizational questions and issues.
February 2nd, 2010
Kevin Spreng is an entrepreneur and a business lawyer. Over the last 20 years Kevin has focused his career on working with tech oriented entrepreneurs and the investors that help them build businesses. He has been lead counsel in hundreds of financing and acquisitions transactions and has worked as in house counsel to a global venture capital firm. Kevin helps his clients with technology transactions, financings, acquisitions and general corporate matters. Along the way Kevin has also founded several companies and learned first-hand the benefits of bootstrapping.
February 2nd, 2010
Justin Bacon is new to the world bootstrapping. He had the good fortune to be introduced to the work of Steve Blank and Eric Ries in 2009. Since then he has pursued his interest in working within the software tech startup community in his home town of Minneapolis, MN by volunteering to help bring Bootstrappers Breakfast to the Twin Cities. He is excited about participating and helping to facilitate an active community of early stage software entrepreneurs through the Bootstrappers Breakfast meetings while being eager to learn along the way.
February 2nd, 2010
Steven Moody, a modern entrepreneur, Steven works in online marketing by day i365, and develops niche web businesses at night, StevenMoody.com . At i365, A Seagate Company, Steven is responsible for Google AdWords initiatives. When he isn’t paying the bills, Steven launches web businesses, and is currently developing two in the travel and music industries. If you have a patent for a medical device providing optimal caffeine intake, he can be reached at narcoleptic@stevenmoody.com Steven is currently working on a MBA from San Jose State.
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