http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com Join Other Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:11:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Athol Foden of Brighter Naming was a very well received speaker at a Bootstrapper Breakfast in December of 2007 and we are planning to bring him back next year. If your naming questions can't wait you can catch up with him tonight at the SDForum Marketing SIG. The events starts ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/11/10/athol-foden-at-sdforum-marketing-sig-tonight/ From a recent interview with Malcom Gladwell by David Hochman in Reader's Digest on Gladwell's new book "Outliers: the story of success" (links added). Hochman: Is there such a thing as an overnight success? Gladwell: No. And that's my concern with a show like American Idol. It encourages the false belief that ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/11/09/malcolm-gladwell-on-overnight-success/ Mark Duncan is our guest speaker this Friday in Palo Alto, he will be talking about the sales process for new products from an entrepreneurial perspective. He will also take some volunteers through an exercise in developing a simple customer qualification flowchart. In keeping with the tradition for speakers at ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/11/03/mark-duncan-on-the-sales-process-in-startups/ I mentioned Sequoia Capital's "Good Times RIP" at the last breakfast and elaborated on it in "Full House in Sunnyvale This Morning" posting, adding pointers to commentary from Hacker News, 37 Signals, and Venture Hacks. I was delighted to discover Ho Nam's Altos Ventures Musings blog and his "RIP Good Times? ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/10/29/altos-ventures-bootstrapper-perspective-on-sequoias-good-times-rip/ Len Sklar has been a guest speaker twice this year, in March and August. He is the author of "The Check is Not in the Mail" and an expert in managing collections and accounts receivable. He was kind enough to share an article on "Collections Made Easier" he recently completed. ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/10/27/managing-your-accounts-receivable-in-a-downturn/ We've added a Bootstrappers Breakfast Meetup Group to complement this blog, the LinkedIn group, and the CentralDesktop private workspace (the latter two are available to folks who have attended two meetings). It brought a number of first time folks to this morning's breakfast: we ended up with 16 folks around ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/10/21/full-house-in-sunnyvale-this-morning/ When you are invited to a roundtable on "How to Manage the Downturn" that's held at the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park and put on by folks who until recently were focused on "get big fast" you have to wonder. It's unusual to have to spend $189 to get ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/10/20/save-189-on-your-next-breakfast/ I had been an early user of the Writely beta and was impressed with the browser based document editor that a team could use to all edit a document in real time. I was not surprised when Google snapped them up, but was pleasantly surprised when I found myself at ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/10/01/sam-schillace-of-writely-now-google-docs-this-friday/ Seth Godin had a good post today "Like Your Hair Is On Fire" where he urged his readers to Assemble your team (it might be just you) on Monday and focus like your hair is on fire (I have no direct experience in this area, but I'm told that hair flammability ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/08/17/last-two-weeks-in-august-making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice/ You are cordially invited to join us for an upcoming "Bootstrapper's Breakfast." It will start at 7:30am and end at 9am. Your cost is your meal + 20% tip; we get the "back room" to ourselves. The other attendees will all be in early stage technology start-ups, it will be a ... http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2008/07/22/upcoming-featured-guests-in-augustseptember/