First Time Guidelines

For first time Bootstrapper Breakfast® attendees. The other attendees will all be in early stage technology startups, it will be a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. The format is as follows:

1. Folks arrive and network
2. We take seats around large table for 12 folks and order.
3. We go around the room and everyone has 2 minutes to introduce themselves and their company. They can also put one or more issues on the table for discussion later.
4. We recap and condense the discussion items into clusters as appropriate and then have the person(s) who raised the issue spend another minute or two explaining it in more detail.
5. Other members of the group make comments, offer suggestions, or ask clarifying questions.
6. We end promptly, but there is time afterward for one on one discussions between attendees.

We would like to keep the total count at each table to 12-18 just so everyone has a chance to interact over the course of a 90 minute discussion.

Please let me know if you have any interest in attending and/or would like to suggest some other folks that might be interested.

Here is a couple item that explain what it is like:

• Basic FAQs
• One thing I learned at the breakfast
• 2008 One thing I learned at the breakfast