https://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=KkoymBootstrapWiki - User contributions [en]2026-08-03T01:57:07ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Contributors&diff=5945Contributors2007-07-13T19:11:46Z<p>Kkoym: /* Overall Leads */</p>
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<div>These are the current Contributors at Bootstrap Austin. Past Contributors are viewable on wiki pages of those initiatives. The [[Contributor]] page explains how you can become a Contributor. <br />
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===Overall Leads===<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/bijoy Bijoy Goswami] - Founder<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/kevinkoym Kevin Koym] - Architect, Firestarter<br />
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===Subgroup Leads===<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/allen Allen Beuershausen] - [[Art Subgroup]]<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/brandyrainey Brandy Rainey] - [[Film Subgroup]]<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/brianmassey Brian Massey] - [[Marketing Subgroup]]<br />
*Carey King - [[Sustainability Subgroup]]<br />
*David Downing - [[Gaming Subgroup]]<br />
*Jesse Bloom - [[Food Subgroup]]<br />
*Jon Lebkowsky, David Swedlow - [[Web Subgroup]]<br />
*Lou Ellman - [[Sales Subgroup]]<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/marcy Marcy Hoen] - [[Ideation Subgroup]]<br />
*Rick Davis, Tim Padden - [[International Subgroup]]<br />
*Thom Singer - [[Publishing Subgroup]]<br />
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===Initiative Leads===<br />
*Alex Cavalli - [[Inner Journey]]<br />
*Chad Jewell - [[Negotiation]]<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/nancy1 Nancy Schill] - [[Connector]]<br />
*Phyllis Blees - [[Book Club]]<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/sarah Sarah Siddiqi] - [[Branding Initiative]]<br />
*Stan Tyler, [http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/nancy Nancy Schill], Anthony Chen, David Swedlow, Jeff Hotz - [[Boot Board]]s<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/tonja Tonja O'Neill], [http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/StevenList Steven List] - [[Bootstrap Speaking | Speaking]]<br />
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===Web Services===<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/ashmaurya Ash Maurya] - [[Boot File Share]]<br />
*Dave Evans, Brian, Jeffrey Blair - [http://www.bootrap.com BootRap]<br />
*David Bluestein - [http://karma.bootstrapaustin.org BootKarma]<br />
*Jon Lebkowsky - [http://www.bootstrapaustin.org Bootstrap Austin website]<br />
*Joshua Shipsey - [http://www.bootstrapbootcamp.com Bootstrap Bootcamp]<br />
*Michael Wilson - [http://www.bootstraponline.com Bootstrap Online]<br />
*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/StevenList Steven List] - [http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki Wiki]<br />
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===Bootstrap Council===<br />
*David Swedlow<br />
*Jon Lebkowsky<br />
*Jonathan McCoy<br />
*Kevin Koym<br />
*Rick Friedman</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Disruptive&diff=4782Bootstrap Disruptive2007-04-09T20:33:18Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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As the pace of technology continues to accelerate forward, many of the bootstrappers in the Bootstrap Austin network are driving change through their work with emerging technologies, sometimes called "disruptive" technologies. These technologies have a tendancy to "disrupt" the existing status quo, whether through making fundamental structural changes (e.g. the cell phone has changed the way that we all make phone calls; cell phone plans that allow calling anywhere in the USA have disrupted old school long distance providers, making the notion of a long distance calling plan a thing of the past). <br />
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The subgroup ''Bootstrap Disruptive'' is a group of bootstrappers that are pushing the edges of technology in multiple domains; creating technologies that as they emerge, naturally disrupt the existing status quo.<br />
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In this group we will explore the issues of how to bring a disruptive technology to market; and in working between our companies together, we will support each other in getting across the "valley of death" in bringing these technologies to market as products.<br />
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Please contact Kevin Koym if you are interested in joining this group.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Inner_Journey_Subgroup&diff=4454Inner Journey Subgroup2007-03-22T15:31:55Z<p>Kkoym: /* Organizations */</p>
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<div>[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-innerjourney Yahoo Group]<br />
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== Leads ==<br />
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[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/cavalli Alex Cavalli]<br />
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== Charter/Mission ==<br />
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In the early part of the 21st century many are recognizing that separate disciplines and lines of human thought can no longer be kept apart. Austin is an archetypal environment where science and technology blend with the arts (music, film, theater, etc.). It is this blending that, in part, makes Austin unique.<br />
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But beyond the obvious merging of art with science and technology there is evidence that the world of business is merging with art and science and technology. And beyond this there is a definite change in thought that is beginning to merge theology and religion into these other three.<br />
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This merging of disciplines or lines of thought in some sense is illusory in that the separation of these major fields of endeavor is, in the first place, an artifact of the limitations of the human mind. That is, the fact that we've treated these as separate disciplines and separate human activities for so long is our limitation and not a true picture of how things work.<br />
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The process by which these discplines are merging is sometimes called convergence. But the truth is that there is no convergence happening because these modes of thought and activity have never been truly separate to begin with.<br />
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What this means is that our ability to think and grasp these ideas as a single whole is growing and this means that there is a journey before us. This journey, however, is not an outer one, from one place to another, either in time or space. It is, rather, an inner journey to discover this larger picture in our own thought and then to bring that larger thought to bear on the human experience. In a very real sense it is the hero's journey, a journey that shucks the baggage of human selfhood to find another way to be and to live.<br />
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This inner journey itself is a bootstrap process because it starts when we first admit that we don't know how things will turn out, but take some steps anyway that lead only to what to do next with an open willingness to learn at each step. Indeed, through our bootstrapping adventures we have the opportunity to grow and evolve internally. <br />
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Practically speaking, we can realize that business lies within this converged thought and that, therefore, creating businesses, making successful businesses, is integral to moving the journey forward.<br />
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== Resources ==<br />
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*[[Book Club#History]] - Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" was discussed<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553208845 Siddhartha], Herman Hesse<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/055334935X Tao Te Ching], translation by Victor Mair<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0915132354 Bhagavad Gita], translation by Eknath Easwaran <br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Wu-Li-Masters-Perennial/dp/0060959681/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-2893070-1480722?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174516687&sr=1-1 Dancing Wu Li Masters] Gary Zukov<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671023373 Man's Search for Meaning], Viktor Frankl<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394744330 The Secret Teachings of Jesus], Marvin Meyer<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394744330 The Path of Least Resistance], Robert Fritz<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062502182 The Alchemist], Paulo Coelho <br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0874777984 The Self-Aware Universe], Amit Goswami<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0929448146 Consciousness Speaks], Ramesh Balsekar <br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684830442 Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership], Richard Farson<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060256710 The Missing Piece], Shel Silverstein<br />
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== Organizations ==<br />
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* [http://www.austinaikikai.org Austin Aikikai]<br />
*[http://www.wisdomatworkaustin.org Wisdom at Work]<br />
*[http://www.yogayoga.com Yoga Yoga]</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Clusters&diff=4251Bootstrap Clusters2007-03-01T20:08:43Z<p>Kkoym: /* 4202 Spicewood Springs */</p>
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<div>Bootstrappers are encouraged to cluster together when you are 1-5 people. Not only is there a saving in cost, but all kinds of other advantages from being around other bootstrappers.<br />
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For now, this page is simply a listing of clusters of Bootstrappers who office together. If you and other bootstrappers are co-located, please list your cluster below. Please also mention if you are interested in having other bootstrappers join you and how they can get in touch to do so.<br />
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== 4202 Spicewood Springs ==<br />
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*[http://www.enterpriseteaming.com Enterprise Teaming]<br />
*[http://www.crimsonservices.com Crimson Services]<br />
*[http://www.momsquawk.com Mom Squawk]<br />
*[http://www.ibagit.com iBagit]<br />
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Contact: Kevin Koym<br />
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== 200 E 6th St ==<br />
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*[http://www.spoonbend.com Spoonbend]<br />
*[http://www.gpexperience.com Game Plan]</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Clusters&diff=4250Bootstrap Clusters2007-03-01T20:01:06Z<p>Kkoym: /* 4202 Spicewood Springs */</p>
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<div>Bootstrappers are encouraged to cluster together when you are 1-5 people. Not only is there a saving in cost, but all kinds of other advantages from being around other bootstrappers.<br />
<br />
For now, this page is simply a listing of clusters of Bootstrappers who office together. If you and other bootstrappers are co-located, please list your cluster below. Please also mention if you are interested in having other bootstrappers join you and how they can get in touch to do so.<br />
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== 4202 Spicewood Springs ==<br />
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*[http://www.enterpriseteaming.com Enterprise Teaming]<br />
*[http://www.crimsonservices.com Crimson Services]<br />
*[http://www.momsquawk.com Mom Squawk]<br />
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Contact: Kevin Koym<br />
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== 200 E 6th St ==<br />
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*[http://www.spoonbend.com Spoonbend]<br />
*[http://www.gpexperience.com Game Plan]</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Enterprise_2.0&diff=3306Bootstrap Enterprise 2.02006-08-16T21:10:12Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>Following on the pre-meeting discussion that we had together before two meetings ago, Tom Brown and I are going to have a pre-meeting before Monday evening main meeting on what we are calling "Enterprise 2.0". <br />
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Details:<br />
5:30 pm this Monday (before main meeting)<br />
open Enterprise 2.0 Discussion<br />
"Matching un-met needs with un-used resources"<br />
<br />
This is going to be an open discussion to discuss "what is possible" and how we, as businesses, can organize and work together as bootstrappers. The idea here is to brainstorm and discuss how is it that we can work together at a more integrated level- tha is beyond just asking each other on this list for referrals.<br />
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Thomas A. Baum tombaum@tracee.biz<br />
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Joshua Baer bootstrap@joshuabaer.com<br />
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Jon Lebkowsky jon.lebkowsky@gmail.com<br />
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From Jon:<br />
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As I mentioned to Tom last night, the sort of thing we were talking about in last night's conversation (stemming from the Enterprise 2.0 and currency discussions) was beginning to sound quite a bit like Value Networks, a concept I've been getting into since hearing Verna Allee speak about it at MeshForum last June.<br />
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Good overview at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network<br />
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"Value networks (value webs), are the human and technical resources that work together to form relationships and add value to a product or service. Included in a company's value network are research, development, design, production, marketing, sales, and distribution. These components work interchangeably to add to the overall worth of a product or service.<br />
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"Value is created from the relationship between the company, its customers, intermediaries, complementors and suppliers (1). Two types of values that are added to a value network are tangible and intangible value exchanges..."<br />
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~ Jon</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Enterprise_2.0&diff=3305Bootstrap Enterprise 2.02006-08-16T21:09:56Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>Following on the pre-meeting discussion that we had together before two meetings ago, Tom Brown and I are going to have a pre-meeting before Monday evening main meeting on what we are calling "Enterprise 2.0". <br />
<br />
Details:<br />
5:30 pm this Monday (before main meeting)<br />
open Enterprise 2.0 Discussion<br />
"Matching un-met needs with un-used resources"<br />
<br />
This is going to be an open discussion to discuss "what is possible" and how we, as businesses, can organize and work together as bootstrappers. The idea here is to brainstorm and discuss how is it that we can work together at a more integrated level- tha is beyond just asking each other on this list for referrals.<br />
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Thomas A. Baum tombaum@tracee.biz<br />
Joshua Baer bootstrap@joshuabaer.com<br />
Jon Lebkowsky jon.lebkowsky@gmail.com<br />
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From Jon:<br />
<br />
As I mentioned to Tom last night, the sort of thing we were talking about in last night's conversation (stemming from the Enterprise 2.0 and currency discussions) was beginning to sound quite a bit like Value Networks, a concept I've been getting into since hearing Verna Allee speak about it at MeshForum last June.<br />
<br />
Good overview at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_network<br />
<br />
"Value networks (value webs), are the human and technical resources that work together to form relationships and add value to a product or service. Included in a company's value network are research, development, design, production, marketing, sales, and distribution. These components work interchangeably to add to the overall worth of a product or service.<br />
<br />
"Value is created from the relationship between the company, its customers, intermediaries, complementors and suppliers (1). Two types of values that are added to a value network are tangible and intangible value exchanges..."<br />
<br />
~ Jon</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Enterprise_2.0&diff=3304Bootstrap Enterprise 2.02006-08-16T21:02:05Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>Following on the pre-meeting discussion that we had together before two meetings ago, Tom Brown and I are going to have a pre-meeting before Monday evening main meeting on what we are calling "Enterprise 2.0". <br />
<br />
Details:<br />
5:30 pm this Monday (before main meeting)<br />
open Enterprise 2.0 Discussion<br />
"Matching un-met needs with un-used resources"<br />
<br />
This is going to be an open discussion to discuss "what is possible" and how we, as businesses, can organize and work together as bootstrappers. The idea here is to brainstorm and discuss how is it that we can work together at a more integrated level- tha is beyond just asking each other on this list for referrals.<br />
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We do not have this "figured out" but are hoping instead to engage a number of members to talk through what they need, and also how we might organize to meet that need. There have been a number of technical discussions as well about how we can technically integrate our products. This will not be one of those technical discussions. The technology is an important part (and I say this coming from my background of being a geek :-) ) yet, we will not spend anytime on talking about technical integrations, but instead how we can organize as businesses... (the technology and implementation will follow once a group of us see an opportunity for it).<br />
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Please come and join in the discussion if you would like to. This will be a continuing part of discussions behind this new idea of organizing, as we look for opportunities to increase the amount of value (read this as sales, product opportunities, otherwise) that we, as bootstrappers, can create through working together.<br />
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No need to RSVP, just show up. Be prepared to share in the process. Think of "unmet needs" that you have in your business, to spark the conversation along.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Kevin<br />
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PS Go sell something.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3295Main Page2006-08-16T16:51:42Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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[http://www.google.com/trends?q=bootstrap&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all Are We having an Impact Yet?] <br />
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''Wondering where all the information went? Since so much of what was included on this page was specific to the Austin, Texas area, we have moved it to the [[:Category:Austin|Austin]] pages.''<br />
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==Info about Bootstrappers==<br />
[http://www.frappr.com/bootstrapaustin Map of the Bootstrappers]<br />
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[[:Special:Listusers | Bootstrapper List]]<br /><br />
If you look at this list, and your name/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias alias] is in <font style="color:red;"><b>red</b></font> that means you have not yet written a profile. Profiles can be whatever you want to share about yourself. Starting with your real name would be nice. Click on your <font style="color:red;"><b>red</b></font> name, and you'll go right to the edit of your profile!<br />
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==Bootstrap Community==<br />
[[Bootstrap Global Social Network]] - worldwide online bootstrapper community<br />
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[[Boot Rap]] - the Bootstrap Network podcast, by [http://www.hearthis.com Hearthis]<br />
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[[myGuides]] - Bootstrappers' guides in areas of their expertise. Add yours! <br />
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[[Bootstrap Student]] - for students starting bootstrap chapters<br />
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[[Boot File Share]] - by [http://www.boxcloud.com Boxcloud]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Tool List]]<br />
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== Services in Ideation: Bootstrap Labs ==<br />
Have an idea for a new boostrap service? Send an email to newservice AT bootstrapnetwork DOT com.<br />
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[[Bootstrap Brokering]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Bucks]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Community Unification System]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Corporate Connect]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Endorsement]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Enterprise 2.0]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Homeless]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Logo Contest]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Mag]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Mentor]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Open Source]]<br />
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[[Demo Camp]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Conference]]<br />
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== City Chapters ==<br />
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*[[Austin]]<br />
*[[Bangalore]]<br />
*[[Boston]]<br />
*[[Chicago]]<br />
*[[Dallas]]<br />
*[[Helsinki]]<br />
*[[Houston]]<br />
*[[Hyderabad]]<br />
*[[Los Angeles]]<br />
*[[NYC]]<br />
*[[Pune]]<br />
*[[San Antonio]]<br />
*[[Seattle]]<br />
*[[Singapore]]<br />
*[[Washington DC]]<br />
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[[City Leader Resources]]<br />
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==SubGroups by Stage==<br />
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*[[Leading a Subgroup]]<br />
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[[Ideation Subgroup]]<br />
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[[Valley of Death Subgroup]]<br />
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[[Growth Subgroup]]<br />
==SubGroups by Industry==<br />
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*[[Leading a Subgroup]]<br />
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[[Art Subgroup]]<br />
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[[Travel Subgroup]]<br />
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[[Web Subgroup]]<br />
==SubGroups by Topic==<br />
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*[[Leading a Subgroup]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Sales]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Personality]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Usability]]<br />
==Subgroups by Maven, Relater, Evangelist==<br />
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*[[Leading a Subgroup]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Maven]]<br />
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==Resources==<br />
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[[Available files: ebooks, documents, and others]]<br />
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[[Fun Stuff!]]<br />
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Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]<br />
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Enterprise&diff=3212Bootstrap Enterprise2006-07-31T16:02:37Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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That's cool to hear, Kevin... I was also into Schumacher (and could use a re-read of the book... it's been years). Maybe we should find others who' re interested in reading and discussing the book at some point, maybe this fall?<br />
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Some links where I mention Schumacher:<br />
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003785.html<br />
http://www.weblogsky.com/archives/000265.html<br />
http://www.y-kaneda.com/cyber/Lebkowsky.html<br />
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(I also wrote a piece on Buddhist Economics for FringeWare Review, but I can't find it online anywhere. I'll look for it.)<br />
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~ Jon</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=User:Kkoym&diff=3211User:Kkoym2006-07-31T16:02:18Z<p>Kkoym: /* Kevin Koym */</p>
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<div>== Kevin Koym ==<br />
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Projects:<br />
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[[Bootstrap Enterprise]]<br />
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; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
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; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
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; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
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; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
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; Location: Austin, Texas (north Austin, Spicewood Springs/Mesa)<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
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<div>== Kevin Koym ==<br />
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Projects:<br />
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BootstrapEnterprise<br />
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; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
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; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, Texas (north Austin, Spicewood Springs/Mesa)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
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<div>[[Category:Boot Boards]]<br />
[[Category:Subgroups]]<br />
'''Group Parameters for the International Boot Board'''<br />
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Core elements:<br />
1) Prominent international element within your business - clients, partners, team members, etc.; 2) Some services element to your business - product companies are fine but must offer some surrounding services; 3) No sales within the group, but open partnerships on projects, etc. acceptable - though the prospect of such partnerships should not be a motivation of joining the group; 4) Only companies currently in business or persons in the "ideation" stage who have already run a business and are actively preparing to start/join a new venture; and 5) You must have spent extensive time traveling internationally and/or living outside of your home country<br />
<br />
Logistics (to be discussed and confirmed after first meeting):<br />
1) Meet bi-weekly Friday afternoons for two hours (though the frequency of meetings is up for debate); 2) Meet at Kevin Koym's offices at Mesa and Spicewood Springs or somewhere (TBD) within a 10 minute drive if Kevin's space is unavailable; 3) Seeking 10 - 12 participants, expecting 6 - 8 to attend each meeting; 4) No initial "cost" beyond covering any food/drink expenses; and 5) Group commitment required - a rotating facilitator within the group expected<br />
<br />
We are soliciting interest from all Bootstrappers who meet the criteria above and are potentially interested in joining the group. Please contact Kevin Koym or Rick Davis for more information on meeting times. The first meeting should occur during the first part of June 2006.<br />
<br />
'''Current Members'''<br />
<br />
* Kevin Koym<br />
* Rick Davis<br />
* Jeremy Solomons<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Interested Parties ==<br />
<br />
Please post your name here on this list, with email address:<br />
<br />
* Ben Finklea - bfinklea@sprysoft.com (email to Kevin)<br />
* Steve Portnoy From: <sportnoy@nichibeiconsulting.com><br />
Cell: 657-3620<br />
Office: 918-3030<br />
<br />
* Teal Thompson tealthompson@gmail.com<br />
<br />
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[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Board Back to Boot Board]</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=International_Subgroup&diff=1822International Subgroup2006-05-10T19:35:40Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>'''Group Parameters for the International Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
Core elements:<br />
1) Prominent international element within your business - clients, partners, team members, etc.; 2) Some services element to your business - product companies are fine but must offer some surrounding services; 3) No sales within the group, but open partnerships on projects, etc. acceptable - though the prospect of such partnerships should not be a motivation of joining the group; 4) Only companies currently in business or persons in the "ideation" stage who have already run a business and are actively preparing to start/join a new venture; and 5) You must have spent extensive time traveling internationally and/or living outside of your home country<br />
<br />
Logistics (to be discussed and confirmed after first meeting):<br />
1) Meet bi-weekly Friday afternoons for two hours (though the frequency of meetings is up for debate); 2) Meet at Kevin Koym's offices at Mesa and Spicewood Springs or somewhere (TBD) within a 10 minute drive if Kevin's space is unavailable; 3) Seeking 10 - 12 participants, expecting 6 - 8 to attend each meeting; 4) No initial "cost" beyond covering any food/drink expenses; and 5) Group commitment required - a rotating facilitator within the group expected<br />
<br />
We are soliciting interest from all Bootstrappers who meet the criteria above and are potentially interested in joining the group. Please contact Kevin Koym or Rick Davis for more information on meeting times. The first meeting should occur during the first part of June 2006.<br />
<br />
'''Current Members'''<br />
<br />
* Kevin Koym<br />
* Rick Davis<br />
* Jeremy Solomans<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Interested Parties ==<br />
<br />
Please post your name here on this list, with email address:<br />
<br />
* Ben Finklea - bfinklea@sprysoft.com (email to Kevin)<br />
* Steve Portnoy (talked with Kevin)<br />
* next person next@next.com<br />
* next person next@next.com<br />
* next person next@next.com</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=International_Subgroup&diff=1821International Subgroup2006-05-10T18:12:59Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>'''Group Parameters for the International Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
Core elements:<br />
1) Prominent international element within your business - clients, partners, team members, etc.; 2) Some services element to your business - product companies are fine but must offer some surrounding services; 3) No sales within the group, but open partnerships on projects, etc. acceptable - though the prospect of such partnerships should not be a motivation of joining the group; 4) Only companies currently in business or persons in the "ideation" stage who have already run a business and are actively preparing to start/join a new venture; and 5) You must have spent extensive time traveling internationally and/or living outside of your home country<br />
<br />
Logistics (to be discussed and confirmed after first meeting):<br />
1) Meet bi-weekly Friday afternoons for two hours (though the frequency of meetings is up for debate); 2) Meet at Kevin Koym's offices at Mesa and Spicewood Springs or somewhere (TBD) within a 10 minute drive if Kevin's space is unavailable; 3) Seeking 10 - 12 participants, expecting 6 - 8 to attend each meeting; 4) No initial "cost" beyond covering any food/drink expenses; and 5) Group commitment required - a rotating facilitator within the group expected<br />
<br />
We are soliciting interest from all Bootstrappers who meet the criteria above and are potentially interested in joining the group. Please contact Kevin Koym or Rick Davis for more information on meeting times. The first meeting should occur during the first part of June 2006.<br />
<br />
'''Current Members'''<br />
<br />
* Kevin Koym<br />
* Rick Davis<br />
* Jeremy Solomans<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Interested Parties ==<br />
<br />
Please post your name here on this list, with email address:<br />
<br />
* Ben Finklea - bfinklea@sprysoft.com<br />
* next person next@next.com<br />
* next person next@next.com<br />
* next person next@next.com<br />
* next person next@next.com</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1768Boot Board (Austin)2006-05-09T14:03:15Z<p>Kkoym: /* Existing Boot Boards */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
=[[Existing Boot Boards]]=<br />
<br />
== [[International Boot Board]]==<br />
<br />
* Kevin Koym<br />
* Rick Davis<br />
* Jeremy Solomans<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
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<br />
== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
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<br />
==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
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== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
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== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
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== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
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== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
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== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India. <br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
<br />
== [[International Boot Board]]==<br />
<br />
* Kevin Koym<br />
* Rick Davis<br />
* Jeremy Solomans<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
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== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
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== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
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== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
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== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
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== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
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== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
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== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
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== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
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== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
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== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
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== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
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== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
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== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
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== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
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==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India. <br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1766Boot Board (Austin)2006-05-09T14:01:54Z<p>Kkoym: /* International Boot Board */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
<br />
= [[International Boot Board]]=<br />
<br />
* Kevin Koym<br />
* Rick Davis<br />
* Jeremy Solomans<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
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<br />
== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
<br />
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<br />
==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India. <br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
<br />
== [[International Boot Board]]==<br />
<br />
* Kevin Koym<br />
* Rick Davis<br />
* Jeremy Solomans<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
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<br />
== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
<br />
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<br />
==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India. <br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1764Boot Board (Austin)2006-05-09T14:00:53Z<p>Kkoym: /* Existing Boot Boards */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
<br />
== [[International Boot Board]]<br />
<br />
* Kevin Koym<br />
* Rick Davis<br />
* Jeremy Solomans<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
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== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
<br />
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<br />
==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India. <br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1763Boot Board (Austin)2006-05-09T13:53:46Z<p>Kkoym: /* Kevin Koym */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
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<br />
==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India. <br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1762Boot Board (Austin)2006-05-09T13:51:38Z<p>Kkoym: /* Kevin Koym */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
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<br />
== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
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<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
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<br />
==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
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== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, Texas (north Austin, Spicewood Springs/Mesa)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1761Boot Board (Austin)2006-05-09T13:50:56Z<p>Kkoym: /* Kevin Koym */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
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<br />
== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
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<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
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==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
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== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
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<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
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== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [[User:kkoym Kevin Koym]]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, Texas (north Austin, Spicewood Springs/Mesa)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1760Boot Board (Austin)2006-05-09T13:50:39Z<p>Kkoym: /* Kevin Koym */</p>
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<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
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== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
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<br />
== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
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<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
<br />
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<br />
==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
see my profile link at [User:kkoym]<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, Texas (north Austin, Spicewood Springs/Mesa)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=User:Kkoym&diff=1759User:Kkoym2006-05-09T13:49:48Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, Texas (north Austin, Spicewood Springs/Mesa)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1758Boot Board (Austin)2006-05-09T13:49:13Z<p>Kkoym: Kevin Koym</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
<br />
== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
<br />
;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
<br />
;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
<br />
;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
<br />
;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].<br />
<br />
==[[Existing Boot Boards]]==<br />
<br />
==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
<br />
<br />
= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
<br />
== Ash Maurya ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chad Jewell ==<br />
<br />
'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
<br />
'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
<br />
'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
<br />
'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
<br />
'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
<br />
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<br />
== David Swedlow ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Michael Trafton ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Karen Sopko ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
<br />
; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
<br />
; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state<br />
; Interested Categories: <br />
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
# Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Artie Berne ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Stan Tyler ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
# Retention and referral development<br /><br />
# Web business development and operations assistance <br /><br />
# Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
==Nancy Schill==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-947-5447<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B marketing<br />
* sales techniques<br />
* sole proprietership business support<br />
* valley of death strategies<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founder and Executive Coach<br />
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)<br />
* extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.<br />
* working with professionals and executives on:<br />
** professional growth strategy<br />
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices<br />
** emotional intelligence skills improvement<br />
** strengths development<br />
** organization and client communication<br />
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity<br />
** balancing priorities of work and personal life<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Michael Wilson==<br />
<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]<br />
<br />
<br />
; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-499-0018<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 3<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death <br />
<br />
; Location: Central/South Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Sales<br />
* Strategy<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Valley of Death bootstrappers<br />
* Diversity bootstrappers<br />
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.<br />
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.<br />
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.<br />
<br />
*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Tonja O'Neill ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-257-2185<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business<br />
* Software / High-Tech Industry<br />
* Crisis Management<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==<br />
<br />
; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512 970 7283<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels<br />
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization<br />
* eMyth<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-736-9884<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 1<br />
<br />
; Stage: VoD in Austin<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses<br />
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining<br />
* Coaching for managers, executives<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR<br />
* Certified in 360 feedback<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Brian Moeskau ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-451-7294<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Central Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery<br />
* Web/user interface design and user experience<br />
* Basketball<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* MyHomePoint has been in dev. part-time for over a year, but just started getting serious within the last 6 months or so. I went full-time in Feb. and am trying to pull it forward into the Growth stage by my bare hands. I'm thinking that I may need gloves...<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== Kevin Koym ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: +1.512.698.9328<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2+contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin, Texas (north Austin, Spicewood Springs/Mesa)<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* International Business<br />
* Social Networking Theory<br />
* Organizational Development<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile<br />
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)<br />
* Well connected through Austin<br />
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
<br />
== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
<br />
; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
<br />
----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Mobile_Phone&diff=1729Mobile Phone2006-05-04T20:27:33Z<p>Kkoym: /* General Notes from people on the list */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
please post any details you have about mobile phones here:<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Comments about specific carriers ==<br />
<br />
* Sprint<br />
<br />
* ATT<br />
<br />
* TMobile<br />
<br />
== Interested parties in managing these relationships as their Bootstrap Community Participation ==<br />
<br />
== Bootstrap Vendors ==<br />
<br />
If you sell these services, please post your name and info here, and any deals that you can offer to bootstrappers<br />
<br />
== Favorite High End Phones ==<br />
What are your biases on cell phones? <br />
<br />
* Treo 600, Treo 650: (from Kevin Koym). I really enjoy all of the features of these two phones, but I am really, really disappointed in their reliability. I have had to return my 600 to Sprint 5 times before they replaced it with a Treo 650. I have had to replace the Treo 650 three times now. This is a big waste of time<br />
<br />
* Treo 700: (from Kevin Koym). I have heard really bad things about this new platform compared to the ease of use of the Treo 600 and Treo 650. Seems like that Palm has moved into the wrong direction with this new phone.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== General Notes from people on the list ==<br />
<br />
That’s exactly what we looked at doing. You will find that as a defined group that is not trying to make money from it, you will be able to negotiate lower rates. The fly in our ointment was over getting a “piece of the action”. If you commit to a certain number of phones, you will be able to get up to 20% off.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
He should call the three big companies and talk to their business sales. They will be interested in seeing that you sign up for a few (5) phones that are connect to a corporate billing. However, I think you can negotiate around this.<br />
<br />
----<br />
from paul brown:<br />
<br />
Samsung i730 phone (Windows Mobile)<br />
http://www.vzwshop.com/samsungi730info/<br />
Paid $489 for the phone direct from Verizon<br />
<br />
Verizon’s EVDO wireless network<br />
I get around 400kbps actual throughput testing through web browser to dslreports.com from a variety of places. Good coverage and the phone reception is much better than my last PDA phone (Tmobile)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
-----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Mobile_Phone&diff=1718Mobile Phone2006-05-02T21:33:22Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
please post any details you have about mobile phones here:<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Comments about specific carriers ==<br />
<br />
* Sprint<br />
<br />
* ATT<br />
<br />
* TMobile<br />
<br />
== Interested parties in managing these relationships as their Bootstrap Community Participation ==<br />
<br />
== Bootstrap Vendors ==<br />
<br />
If you sell these services, please post your name and info here, and any deals that you can offer to bootstrappers<br />
<br />
== Favorite High End Phones ==<br />
What are your biases on cell phones? <br />
<br />
* Treo 600, Treo 650: (from Kevin Koym). I really enjoy all of the features of these two phones, but I am really, really disappointed in their reliability. I have had to return my 600 to Sprint 5 times before they replaced it with a Treo 650. I have had to replace the Treo 650 three times now. This is a big waste of time<br />
<br />
* Treo 700: (from Kevin Koym). I have heard really bad things about this new platform compared to the ease of use of the Treo 600 and Treo 650. Seems like that Palm has moved into the wrong direction with this new phone.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== General Notes from people on the list ==<br />
<br />
That’s exactly what we looked at doing. You will find that as a defined group that is not trying to make money from it, you will be able to negotiate lower rates. The fly in our ointment was over getting a “piece of the action”. If you commit to a certain number of phones, you will be able to get up to 20% off.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
He should call the three big companies and talk to their business sales. They will be interested in seeing that you sign up for a few (5) phones that are connect to a corporate billing. However, I think you can negotiate around this.<br />
<br />
<br />
-----</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Mobile_Phone&diff=1715Mobile Phone2006-05-01T20:13:34Z<p>Kkoym: /* Interested parties in managing this relationships */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
please post any details you have about mobile phones here:<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Comments about specific carriers ==<br />
<br />
* Sprint<br />
<br />
* ATT<br />
<br />
* TMobile<br />
<br />
== Interested parties in managing these relationships as their Bootstrap Community Participation ==<br />
<br />
== Bootstrap Vendors ==<br />
<br />
If you sell these services, please post your name and info here, and any deals that you can offer to bootstrappers<br />
<br />
== Favorite High End Phones ==<br />
What are your biases on cell phones? <br />
<br />
* Treo 600, Treo 650: (from Kevin Koym). I really enjoy all of the features of these two phones, but I am really, really disappointed in their reliability. I have had to return my 600 to Sprint 5 times before they replaced it with a Treo 650. I have had to replace the Treo 650 three times now. This is a big waste of time<br />
<br />
* Treo 700: (from Kevin Koym). I have heard really bad things about this new platform compared to the ease of use of the Treo 600 and Treo 650. Seems like that Palm has moved into the wrong direction with this new phone.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Mobile_Phone&diff=1714Mobile Phone2006-05-01T20:13:07Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
please post any details you have about mobile phones here:<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Comments about specific carriers ==<br />
<br />
* Sprint<br />
<br />
* ATT<br />
<br />
* TMobile<br />
<br />
== Interested parties in managing this relationships ==<br />
<br />
<br />
== Bootstrap Vendors ==<br />
<br />
If you sell these services, please post your name and info here, and any deals that you can offer to bootstrappers<br />
<br />
== Favorite High End Phones ==<br />
What are your biases on cell phones? <br />
<br />
* Treo 600, Treo 650: (from Kevin Koym). I really enjoy all of the features of these two phones, but I am really, really disappointed in their reliability. I have had to return my 600 to Sprint 5 times before they replaced it with a Treo 650. I have had to replace the Treo 650 three times now. This is a big waste of time<br />
<br />
* Treo 700: (from Kevin Koym). I have heard really bad things about this new platform compared to the ease of use of the Treo 600 and Treo 650. Seems like that Palm has moved into the wrong direction with this new phone.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Project_Ideas&diff=1713Bootstrap Project Ideas2006-05-01T20:09:19Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Breakout Session: IP Basics and Strategy for Bootstrappers ==<br />
<br />
Due to popular '''lack''' of demand :-) this breakout session has been '''cancelled'''. However ...<br />
<br />
For anyone in Boostrap who is interested in the subject, I am giving an open-access webinar for RymaTech on this '''Wednesday, 19 April, at 11:00 am CDT'''. Participants should check software compatibility and access beforehand and be logged in by 10:45. The presentation will run 30-40 minutes, with a 15-20 minute Q&A period after the presentation<br />
<br />
This session is tailored for Product Managers, but should be largely applicable to entrepreneurs and Bootstrappers, covering:<br><br />
- relating IP to the product manager's role (in many ways similar to an entrepreneur)<br><br />
- basic needs in IP management in all high tech companies<br><br />
- patent strategy considerations before - and parallel to - talking with a patent attorney<br />
<br />
To find out more about the webinar and register, visit the RymaTech [http://www.featureplan.com/community/2006/04/intellectual_property.asp site] <br />
<br />
--[[User:Dbjarrell|Dbjarrell]] 23:36, 16 April 2006 (CDT)<br />
<br />
<br />
== [[Mobile Phone ]] ==<br />
mobile phone offers, by bootstrappers for bootstrappers at this link: [[Mobile Phone]]</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Boot_Board_(Austin)&diff=1654Boot Board (Austin)2006-04-24T21:26:08Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Bootstrappers]]<br />
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Boot Board'''<br />
<br />
[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting] <br />
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Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow<br />
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== INSTRUCTIONS ==<br />
;Overview: You have to log in to edit an entry. Then you'll claim your entry by selecting a link from the Table of Contents, editing that entry and typing your name. Finally, you'll re-edit the entry to fill in the details. While you are editing, you won't see these instructions, but you can "Save page" to keep your changes and come back to this (the Boot Board) page. Scroll up to the top if necessary to see these instructions again.<br />
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;Login: Click the "log in" link at the very top right of this browser page. If you don't already have an account, enter the five fields and click the "Create new account" button. After you've created the account or logged in, click the "Return to Boot Board" link.<br />
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;Claim your entry: Select an entry from the Table of Contents. Choose one that reads "YOUR_NAME_HERE". You'll be taken to that entry and "YOUR_NAME_HERE" will appear at the top of the page. Click the "edit" link to the far right of "YOUR_NAME_HERE" to get to the edit page. For now, just replace "YOUR_NAME_HERE" with your first and last name (leave the equal marks "==" in place). Click the "Save page" button at the bottom of the screen. Now you've claimed this entry. Next, fill in the details.<br />
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;Fill in your details: At this point, the top of the page will have your first and last name as you entered them, and the "Edit" link is still to the far right. Click "Edit" again and now fill in the details. You should only need to replace the actual text that is in ALL_CAPS. Leave the semicolons (;) and asterisks at the beginning of each line (semicolons indicate headers, and asterisks indicate bullet items). If you need to add more bulleted items, just follow the pattern and enter an asterisk at the beginning of each line.<br />
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;Questions: If you have any questions, please email David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com.<br />
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==[[Sample Personal Description]]==<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sample_Personal_Description Here] is a sample personal description for those who want to share their information based on the last Bootstrap Austin meeting. You can copy one of the samples, or just edit this page, and copy one of the entries below.<br />
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= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =<br />
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== Ash Maurya ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]<br />
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; Phone: 214.914.8658<br />
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; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]<br />
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; Stage: Late Valley of Death<br />
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; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software<br />
* Collaboration Technology<br />
* Starting Up<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* New to Austin<br />
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002<br />
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com<br />
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== Brian Massey ==<br />
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]<br />
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; Company Size: Small<br />
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; Stage: Growth<br />
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; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* Business to Business Technology<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.<br />
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.<br />
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.<br />
* Always looking to learn more.<br />
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== Chad Jewell ==<br />
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'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]<br />
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'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)<br />
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'''Stage:''' Growth <br />
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'''Location:''' Northwest Austin <br />
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'''Interested Categories:'''<br />
Service / Consulting oriented businesses, <br />
Business in growth phase,<br />
Lifestyle businesses,<br />
Sales <br />
<br />
'''Other Information'''<br />
Started my company 6 years ago.<br />
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.<br />
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?<br />
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group <br />
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)<br />
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== David Swedlow ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512-589-8834<br />
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; Company Size: 2 people<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Northwest Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Social Software (Web 2.0)<br />
* Emergent Community<br />
* Collaborative Technology<br />
* Transformational Dynamics<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* New Bootstrapper<br />
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association<br />
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification<br />
* Future Studies<br />
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== Phyllis Blees==<br />
; Company: Blees Creative Academies<br />
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; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Ideation<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing a start-up<br />
* For-Profit educational models<br />
* Financing start-ups<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)<br />
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies<br />
* Have begun an interim "day job" as General Counsel for FLOW, Inc., a startup in the nonprofit world, and taking on a few business and tax clients<br />
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter<br />
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair<br />
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== Michael Trafton ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 25 People<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
<br />
; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* Sales<br />
* Marketing<br />
* Business Operations<br />
* Personnel Management<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Bootstrapped since 1999<br />
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization<br />
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== Chris Garrigues ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512-322-0180<br />
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; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors<br />
<br />
; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)<br />
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; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* B2B Marketing<br />
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention<br />
* Managing growth<br />
* Relationship-based businesses<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995<br />
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.<br />
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.<br />
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.<br />
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== Stephen Sopko ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']<br />
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; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512 917 6020<br />
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; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors<br />
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; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)<br />
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events<br />
* Games & Simulations<br />
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]<br />
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]<br />
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer<br />
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...<br />
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology<br />
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling <br />
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== Dave Pinckney ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-833-8634<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Small<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: North Austin<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Managing virtual staff<br />
* Non-standard business models<br />
* Structures of financial transactions<br />
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; Other Information:<br />
* Info systems veteran<br />
* Founded in 2001<br />
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]<br />
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]<br />
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== Mike O'Krent ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]<br />
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; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-431-8166<br />
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; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock<br />
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; Interested Categories:<br />
* Baby boomer target marketing<br />
* Personal Historian<br />
* Starting up<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
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== Karen Sopko ==<br />
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; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]<br />
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; Phone: 512 694 5366<br />
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; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies<br />
<br />
; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan<br />
<br />
; Location: Round Rock, TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)<br />
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)<br />
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)<br />
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management<br />
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced<br />
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics<br />
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter<br />
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI <br />
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie<br />
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography<br />
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology <br />
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== Michelle Ewalt ==<br />
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; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition<br />
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; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512.762.8568<br />
; Company Size: 1 person<br />
; Stage: Growth<br />
Location: Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state Interested Categories: <br />
1 Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.<br />
2 Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.<br />
3 Transformational change<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.<br />
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change. <br />
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.<br />
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.<br />
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer<br />
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.<br />
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.<br />
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin<br />
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== Cruce Saunders ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:csaunders@ariesnet.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team<br />
<br />
; Stage: Growth, Bumpy<br />
<br />
; Location: Austin and Dallas<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* Virtual Teaming<br />
* Services business management<br />
* Client service and client experience<br />
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting<br />
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Founded 1997 <br />
* Largest employment 25 in 2000<br />
* Started while at school at SMU<br />
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== Artie_Berne ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com]<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-261-0024<br />
<br />
; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)<br />
<br />
; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:<br />
* Small Company Financing_1<br />
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2<br />
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3<br />
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4<br />
* Buying of Companies_5<br />
* Project Funding_6<br />
* Equity Venture Capital_7<br />
* Asset Lending_8<br />
* Leasing of Equipment_9<br />
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9<br />
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10<br />
<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.<br />
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day. <br />
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals<br />
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO<br />
* Also running,lifting and<br />
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions. <br />
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== Stan Tyler ==<br />
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; Company: [www.champions-edge.com<br />
Champions Edge ]<br />
<br />
; Email: [stan@champions-edge.com<br />
<br />
; Phone: 512-289-0604<br />
<br />
; Company Size: 2 founders<br />
<br />
; Stage: (Valley of Death)<br />
<br />
; Location: Lake Travis<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* _1 Retention and referral development<br />
* _2 Web business development and operations assistance <br />
* _3 Contract relationship design and management - associates <br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf <br />
* Learning from our granddaughters<br />
* Rowing <br />
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years <br />
* <br />
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== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
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== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
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; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
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; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
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== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
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== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
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== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==<br />
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; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]<br />
<br />
; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]<br />
<br />
; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER<br />
<br />
; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE<br />
<br />
; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)<br />
<br />
; Location: YOUR_LOCATION<br />
<br />
; Interested Categories:<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_1<br />
* YOUR_INTEREST_2<br />
* ETC.<br />
<br />
; Other Information:<br />
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO<br />
* ETC.<br />
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<div><br />
<br />
Boot Board: not CEO Roundtables! <br />
<br />
Led by Bootstrappers:<br />
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition<br />
* Stan Tyler<br />
* David Swedlow</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1512Main Page2006-03-29T16:03:41Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>The '''[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org Bootstrap Austin] Wiki''' is a resource for the 520+ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurs entrepreneurs] taking a bootstrap approach to building companies in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_texas Austin, Texas]. The [[goal]] of Bootstrap Austin is to get entrepreneurs together so that we can share ideas and solve problems. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping Bootstrapping] presents unique challenges and requires a unique approach. We provide a forum for discovering and propagating the unique path and rules associated with bootstrapping a company. The Bootstrap Network is an open source collaborative model for building bootstrapped businesses around the world.<br />
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==Info about Bootstrappers==<br />
[http://www.frappr.com/bootstrapaustin Map of the Bootstrappers]<br />
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[http://www.fourio.com/web20map/ Map of Austin-based Web 2.0 companies]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Marketplace]]<br />
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[[Boot Board]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Community Unification System]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Businesses]]<br /><br />
See what your Bootstrap colleagues are doing!<br />
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[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Listusers Bootstrapper List]<br /><br />
If you look at this list, and your name/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias alias] is in <font style="color:red;"><b>red</b></font> that means you have not yet written a profile. Profiles can be whatever you want to share about yourself. Starting with your real name would be nice. Click on your <font style="color:red;"><b>red</b></font> name, and you'll go right to the edit of your profile!<br />
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==Bootstrap Community==<br />
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[[Bootstrap Project Ideas]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Tool List]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Mini-Incubators]]<br />
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[[CEO Roundtable formulation working notes]]<br />
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==Resources==<br />
[[3rd Party Resources]]<br />
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[[Available files: ebooks, documents, and others]]<br />
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[[Fun Stuff!]]<br />
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Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]<br />
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Community_Unification_System&diff=1461Bootstrap Community Unification System2006-03-25T02:10:47Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>Please add your feedback on this page.<br />
<br />
Thanks.<br />
Kevin</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1460Main Page2006-03-25T02:10:22Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>The '''[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org Bootstrap Austin] Wiki''' is a resource for the 520+ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurs entrepreneurs] taking a bootstrap approach to building companies in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_texas Austin, Texas]. The [[goal]] of Bootstrap Austin is to get entrepreneurs together so that we can share ideas and solve problems. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping Bootstrapping] presents unique challenges and requires a unique approach. We provide a forum for discovering and propagating the unique path and rules associated with bootstrapping a company. The Bootstrap Network is an open source collaborative model for building bootstrapped businesses around the world.<br />
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==Info about Bootstrappers==<br />
[http://www.frappr.com/bootstrapaustin Map of the Bootstrappers]<br />
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[http://www.fourio.com/web20map/ Map of Austin-based Web 2.0 companies]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Marketplace]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Community Unification System]]<br />
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[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Listusers Bootstrapper List]<br /><br />
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==Bootstrap Community==<br />
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[[Bootstrap Project Ideas]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Tool List]]<br />
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[[Bootstrap Mini-Incubators]]<br />
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==Resources==<br />
[[3rd Party Resources]]<br />
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[[Available files: ebooks, documents, and others]]<br />
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[[Fun Stuff!]]<br />
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Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]<br />
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1430Main Page2006-03-13T17:45:20Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>The '''[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org Bootstrap Austin] Wiki''' is a resource for the 520+ entrepreneurs taking a bootstrap approach to building companies in Austin, Texas. The goal of Bootstrap Austin is to get entrepreneurs together so that we can share ideas and solve problems. Bootstrapping presents unique challenges and requires a unique approach. We provide a forum for discovering and propagating the unique path and rules associated with bootstrapping a company. The Bootstrap Network is an open source collaborative model for building bootstrapped businesses around the world.<br />
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[[3rd Party Resources]]<br />
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[http://www.frappr.com/bootstrapaustin Map of the Bootstrappers]<br />
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[http://www.fourio.com/web20map/ Map of Austin-based Web 2.0 companies]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Marketplace]]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Project Ideas]]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Tool List]]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Mini-Incubators]]<br />
<br />
[[CEO Roundtable formulation working notes]]<br />
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[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Listusers Bootstrapper List]<br />
<br />
[[Available files: ebooks, documents, and others]]<br />
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<br />
Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]<br />
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Time_Tracking&diff=1405Time Tracking2006-02-21T16:54:56Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>==Journyx==<br />
* Austin based company<br />
* Web based tool (good)<br />
* Very complex... Too complex to just install and use quickly<br />
* http://www.journyx.com<br />
* Lots of reports... but how do I just enter time.... ??? Bummer that it is so complex.<br />
<br />
==Excel file==<br />
* Submitted by Don Jarrell<br />
* Speak with him about usage of this file (not attached because no permission to do so)<br />
<br />
==Allnetic Time Tracker==<br />
* and it’s no fuss type of software…and it’s really cheap. <br />
* http://www.allnetic.com<br />
<br />
==QuickBooks==<br />
* Timetracking feature <br />
* Suggested by two different people (one for a hosted application, the other on the stand alone application<br />
* I do not have QuickBooks, so this alternative will not work for me<br />
<br />
==Juris==<br />
* The person that I talked with said "it sucks" <br />
* Mainly used for lawyers<br />
<br />
==OfficeTime==<br />
* http://www.officetime.net/<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
* 60 day free trial<br />
<br />
==Task Time==<br />
* http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/tasktime.html<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
<br />
==Time Sheets==<br />
* http://www.timesheetsmts.com/<br />
<br />
==Ace Project==<br />
* http://www.aceproject.com/<br />
<br />
==TimeLedger.com==<br />
* TimeLedger.com is what we use here at BlabberMouth. <br />
* It's very user friendly and although not as inexpensive as Journyx, it's very affordable.<br />
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<br />
==myhours.com==<br />
* http://www.myhours.com. <br />
* it is an online tracking program. presently it is free.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Time_Tracking&diff=1399Time Tracking2006-02-20T23:14:37Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>==Journyx==<br />
* Austin based company<br />
* Web based tool (good)<br />
* Very complex... Too complex to just install and use quickly<br />
* http://www.journyx.com<br />
* Lots of reports... but how do I just enter time.... ??? Bummer that it is so complex.<br />
<br />
==Excel file==<br />
* Submitted by Don Jarrell<br />
* Speak with him about usage of this file (not attached because no permission to do so)<br />
<br />
==Allnetic Time Tracker==<br />
* and it’s no fuss type of software…and it’s really cheap. <br />
* http://www.allnetic.com<br />
<br />
==QuickBooks==<br />
* Timetracking feature <br />
* Suggested by two different people (one for a hosted application, the other on the stand alone application<br />
* I do not have QuickBooks, so this alternative will not work for me<br />
<br />
==Juris==<br />
* The person that I talked with said "it sucks" <br />
* Mainly used for lawyers<br />
<br />
==OfficeTime==<br />
* http://www.officetime.net/<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
* 60 day free trial<br />
<br />
==Task Time==<br />
* http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/tasktime.html<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
<br />
==Time Sheets==<br />
* http://www.timesheetsmts.com/<br />
<br />
==Ace Project==<br />
* http://www.aceproject.com/<br />
<br />
==TimeLedger.com==<br />
* TimeLedger.com is what we use here at BlabberMouth. <br />
* It's very user friendly and although not as inexpensive as Journyx, it's very affordable.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Time_Tracking&diff=1396Time Tracking2006-02-20T20:57:25Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div>Journyx:<br />
* Austin based company<br />
* Web based tool (good)<br />
* Very complex... Too complex to just install and use quickly<br />
* http://www.journyx.com<br />
* Lots of reports... but how do I just enter time.... ??? Bummer that it is so complex.<br />
<br />
<br />
Excel file<br />
* Submitted by Don Jarrell<br />
* Speak with him about usage of this file (not attached because no permission to do so)<br />
<br />
<br />
Allnetic Time Tracker:<br />
* and it’s no fuss type of software…and it’s really cheap. <br />
* http://www.allnetic.com<br />
<br />
<br />
Quickbooks:<br />
* Timetracking feature <br />
* Suggested by two different people (one for a hosted application, the other on the stand alone application<br />
* I do not have QuickBooks, so this alternative will not work for me<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Juris:<br />
* The person that I talked with said "it sucks" <br />
* Mainly used for lawyers<br />
<br />
<br />
OfficeTime:<br />
* http://www.officetime.net/<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
* 60 day free trial<br />
<br />
<br />
Task Time:<br />
* http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/tasktime.html<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
<br />
<br />
Time Sheets:<br />
* http://www.timesheetsmts.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
Ace Project:<br />
* http://www.aceproject.com/</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Time_Tracking&diff=1395Time Tracking2006-02-20T20:57:13Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div>Journyx:<br />
* Austin based company<br />
* Web based tool (good)<br />
* Very complex... Too complex to just install and use quickly<br />
* http://www.journyx.com<br />
* Lots of reports... but how do I just enter time.... ??? Bummer that it is so complex.<br />
<br />
<br />
Excel file<br />
* Submitted by Don Jarrell<br />
* Speak with him about usage of this file (not attached because no permission to do so)<br />
<br />
<br />
Allnetic Time Tracker:<br />
* and it’s no fuss type of software…and it’s really cheap. <br />
* http://www.allnetic.com<br />
<br />
Quickbooks:<br />
* Timetracking feature <br />
* Suggested by two different people (one for a hosted application, the other on the stand alone application<br />
* I do not have QuickBooks, so this alternative will not work for me<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Juris:<br />
* The person that I talked with said "it sucks" <br />
* Mainly used for lawyers<br />
<br />
<br />
OfficeTime:<br />
* http://www.officetime.net/<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
* 60 day free trial<br />
<br />
<br />
Task Time:<br />
* http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/tasktime.html<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
<br />
<br />
Time Sheets:<br />
* http://www.timesheetsmts.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
Ace Project:<br />
* http://www.aceproject.com/</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Time_Tracking&diff=1394Time Tracking2006-02-20T20:56:22Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div>Journyx:<br />
* Austin based company<br />
* Web based tool (good)<br />
* Very complex... Too complex to just install and use quickly<br />
* http://www.journyx.com<br />
* Lots of reports... but how do I just enter time.... ??? Bummer that it is so complex.<br />
<br />
<br />
Excel file<br />
* Submitted by Don Jarrell<br />
* Speak with him about usage of this file (not attached because no permission to do so)<br />
<br />
<br />
Quickbooks:<br />
* Timetracking feature <br />
* Suggested by two different people (one for a hosted application, the other on the stand alone application<br />
* I do not have QuickBooks, so this alternative will not work for me<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Juris:<br />
* The person that I talked with said "it sucks" <br />
* Mainly used for lawyers<br />
<br />
<br />
OfficeTime:<br />
* http://www.officetime.net/<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
* 60 day free trial<br />
<br />
<br />
Task Time:<br />
* http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/tasktime.html<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
<br />
<br />
Time Sheets:<br />
* http://www.timesheetsmts.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
Ace Project:<br />
* http://www.aceproject.com/</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Time_Tracking&diff=1393Time Tracking2006-02-20T20:55:55Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Journyx:<br />
* Austin based company<br />
* Web based tool (good)<br />
* Very complex... Too complex to just install and use quickly<br />
* http://www.journyx.com<br />
* Lots of reports... but how do I just enter time.... ??? Bummer that it is so complex.<br />
<br />
<br />
Excel file<br />
* Submitted by Don Jarrell<br />
* Speak with him about usage of this file (not attached because no permission to do so)<br />
<br />
<br />
Quickbooks:<br />
* Timetracking feature <br />
* Suggested by two different people (one for a hosted application, the other on the stand alone application<br />
* I do not have QuickBooks, so this alternative will not work for me<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Juris:<br />
* The person that I talked with said "it sucks" <br />
* Mainly used for lawyers<br />
<br />
OfficeTime:<br />
* http://www.officetime.net/<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
* 60 day free trial<br />
<br />
Task Time:<br />
* http://www.ttpsoftware.com/Products/tasktime.html<br />
* Looks like it is Mac only<br />
<br />
Time Sheets:<br />
* http://www.timesheetsmts.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
Ace Project:<br />
* http://www.aceproject.com/</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Time_Tracking&diff=1392Time Tracking2006-02-20T20:46:57Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
Journyx:<br />
* Austin based company<br />
* Web based tool (good)<br />
* Very complex... Too complex to just install and use quickly<br />
* http://www.journyx.com</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Time_Tracking&diff=1391Time Tracking2006-02-20T20:46:33Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
<br />
Journyx:<br />
- Austin based company<br />
- Web based tool (good)<br />
- Very complex... Too complex to just install and use quickly<br />
- http://www.journyx.com</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Tool_List&diff=1390Bootstrap Tool List2006-02-20T20:42:32Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<br />
[[Time Tracking]]</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1389Main Page2006-02-20T20:42:18Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>The '''[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org Bootstrap Austin] Wiki''' is a resource for the 520+ entrepreneurs taking a bootstrap approach to building companies in Austin, Texas. The goal of Bootstrap Austin is to get entrepreneurs together so that we can share ideas and solve problems. Bootstrapping presents unique challenges and requires a unique approach. We provide a forum for discovering and propagating the unique path and rules associated with bootstrapping a company.<br />
<br />
[[3rd Party Resources]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.frappr.com/bootstrapaustin Map of the Bootstrappers]<br />
<br />
[http://www.fourio.com/web20map/ Map of Austin-based Web 2.0 companies]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Marketplace]]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Project Ideas]]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Tool List]]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Mini-Incubators]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Listusers Bootstrapper List]<br />
<br />
[[Available files: ebooks, documents, and others]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]<br />
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Bootstrap_Marketplace_(Austin)&diff=1306Bootstrap Marketplace (Austin)2006-02-02T04:30:35Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div><br />
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Add your market place ideas here.<br />
Link to a new page with information about what you have with a short note here linking to it.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1305Main Page2006-02-02T03:55:43Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
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<div>[[Resources]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.frappr.com/bootstrapaustin Map of the Bootstrappers]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Marketplace]]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Project Ideas]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Listusers Bootstrapper List]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]<br />
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.</div>Kkoymhttps://wiki.bootstrapaustin.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1304Main Page2006-02-02T03:55:20Z<p>Kkoym: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Resources]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.frappr.com/bootstrapaustin Map of the Bootstrappers]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Marketplace]]<br />
<br />
[[Bootstrap Project Ideas]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Listusers Bootstrapper List]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]<br />
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.</div>Kkoym