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International Subgroup

2007-09-25T19:56:34Z

Radavis4: /* Meetings */

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2n3oax

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group] - once you are approved, please create your public profile on [http://www.bootstraponline.com Bootstrap Online] by clicking on the "Privacy" tab on your profile, scrolling down and adding your URL. Then add your name and URL link to the [http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international/database?method=reportRows&tbl=1 Profiles Database] in the yahoo group.

==Leads==

*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/rickdavis Rick Davis]
*Tim Padden

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues. From local small and mid-sized businesses, we welcome executives and managers who have global growth goals or other international management issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar just south of 35th St. We tend to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests. We also meet for the occasional group happy hour to cater to the needs of those members who cannot make the monthly lunches - and just to have fun!

== Resources ==

*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international International Subgroup Yahoo! group list]
*[http://www.austin.tie.org TiE Austin]
*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

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International Subgroup

2007-09-25T19:55:44Z

Radavis4: /* Leads */

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2n3oax

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group] - once you are approved, please create your public profile on [http://www.bootstraponline.com Bootstrap Online] by clicking on the "Privacy" tab on your profile, scrolling down and adding your URL. Then add your name and URL link to the [http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international/database?method=reportRows&tbl=1 Profiles Database] in the yahoo group.

==Leads==

*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/rickdavis Rick Davis]
*Tim Padden

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues. From local small and mid-sized businesses, we welcome executives and managers who have global growth goals or other international management issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar near 35th St. We tend to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests. We also meet for the occasional group happy hour to cater to the needs of those members who cannot make the monthly lunches - and just to have fun!

== Resources ==

*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international International Subgroup Yahoo! group list]
*[http://www.austin.tie.org TiE Austin]
*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

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International Subgroup

2007-09-25T19:55:27Z

Radavis4: /* Mission */

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2n3oax

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group] - once you are approved, please create your public profile on [http://www.bootstraponline.com Bootstrap Online] by clicking on the "Privacy" tab on your profile, scrolling down and adding your URL. Then add your name and URL link to the [http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international/database?method=reportRows&tbl=1 Profiles Database] in the yahoo group.

==Leads==

*[http://community.bootstrapnetwork.com/rickdavis Rick Davis]
*Tim Padden
*Jeremy Solomons

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues. From local small and mid-sized businesses, we welcome executives and managers who have global growth goals or other international management issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar near 35th St. We tend to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests. We also meet for the occasional group happy hour to cater to the needs of those members who cannot make the monthly lunches - and just to have fun!

== Resources ==

*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international International Subgroup Yahoo! group list]
*[http://www.austin.tie.org TiE Austin]
*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

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International Subgroup

2007-07-18T20:41:14Z

Radavis4: /* Resources */

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group]

==Leads==

*Rick Davis
*Tim Padden
*Jeremy Solomons

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar near 35th St. We tend to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests. We also meet for the occasional group happy hour to cater to the needs of those members who cannot make the monthly lunches - and just to have fun!

== Resources ==

*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international International Subgroup Yahoo! group list]
*[http://www.austin.tie.org TiE Austin]
*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

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[[Category: Subgroups by Topic]]

International Subgroup

2007-07-12T19:44:24Z

Radavis4: /* Resources */

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group]

==Leads==

*Rick Davis
*Tim Padden
*Jeremy Solomons

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar near 35th St. We tend to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests. We also meet for the occasional group happy hour to cater to the needs of those members who cannot make the monthly lunches - and just to have fun!

== Resources ==

*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international International Subgroup Yahoo! group list]
*[http://www.austin.tie.org TiE Austin]
*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

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International Subgroup

2007-07-12T19:42:42Z

Radavis4: /* Meetings */

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group]

==Leads==

*Rick Davis
*Tim Padden
*Jeremy Solomons

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar near 35th St. We tend to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests. We also meet for the occasional group happy hour to cater to the needs of those members who cannot make the monthly lunches - and just to have fun!

== Resources ==

*[http://www.austin.tie.org TiE Austin]
*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

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International Subgroup

2007-07-12T19:37:29Z

Radavis4: /* Resources */

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group]

==Leads==

*Rick Davis
*Tim Padden
*Jeremy Solomons

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar near 35th St. The group tends to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests.

== Resources ==

*[http://www.austin.tie.org TiE Austin]
*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

{{Industry Subgroups}}
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[[Category: Subgroups by Industry]]

International Subgroup

2007-07-12T19:35:43Z

Radavis4: /* Leads */

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group]

==Leads==

*Rick Davis
*Tim Padden
*Jeremy Solomons

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar near 35th St. The group tends to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests.

== Resources ==

*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

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International Subgroup

2007-07-12T19:34:09Z

Radavis4: /* Meetings */

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group]

==Leads==

*Rick Davis
*Tim Padden

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets the second Friday of every month over lunch at 11:30 at the La Madeleine on Lamar near 35th St. The group tends to congregate in the back and welcomes any guests.

== Resources ==

*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

{{Industry Subgroups}}
[[Category: Subgroups]]
[[Category: Subgroups by Industry]]

International Subgroup

2007-07-12T19:32:40Z

Radavis4: /* Mission*/

*[http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrap-international Yahoo Group]

==Leads==

*Rick Davis
*Tim Padden

==Mission==
The International Subgroup of Bootstrap Austin is a collection of Austin-area entrepreneurs who have a prominent international element (e.g., clients, partners, team members, etc.) within their current or planned businesses and benefit from sharing challenges and insight related to international business issues.

==Meetings==

The group meets once a month

== Resources ==

*[http://www.icaaustin.org International Center of Austin]
*[http://www.sietaraustin.org Society for Intercultural Training and Research]
*[http://www.jasga.org Japan America Society Greater Austin]

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Boot Board (Austin)

2006-05-09T23:50:22Z

Radavis4: /* Rick Davis */

[[Category:Bootstrappers]]
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]

'''Boot Board'''

[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting]

Led by Bootstrappers:
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition
* Stan Tyler
* David Swedlow

== INSTRUCTIONS ==
;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.

;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.

;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.

;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.

;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].

=[[Existing Boot Boards]]=

== [[International Boot Board]]==

* Kevin Koym
* Rick Davis
* Jeremy Solomans

==[[Sample Personal Description]]==
[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.

= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =

== Ash Maurya ==

; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]

; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]

; Phone: 214.914.8658

; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]

; Stage: Late Valley of Death

; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas

; Interested Categories:
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software
* Collaboration Technology
* Starting Up

; Other Information:
* New to Austin
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com

----

== Brian Massey ==
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Business to Business Technology
* Marketing
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities

; Other Information:
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.
* Always looking to learn more.

----

== Chad Jewell ==

'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]

'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)

'''Stage:''' Growth

'''Location:''' Northwest Austin

'''Interested Categories:'''
Service / Consulting oriented businesses,
Business in growth phase,
Lifestyle businesses,
Sales

'''Other Information'''
Started my company 6 years ago.
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)

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== David Swedlow ==

; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]

; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]

; Phone: 512-589-8834

; Company Size: 2 people

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Social Software (Web 2.0)
* Emergent Community
* Collaborative Technology
* Transformational Dynamics

; Other Information:
* New Bootstrapper
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification
* Future Studies

----

== Phyllis Blees==
; Company: Blees Creative Academies

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Ideation

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Managing a start-up
* For-Profit educational models
* Financing start-ups

; Other Information:
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies
* 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
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair

----

== Michael Trafton ==

; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]

; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]

; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201

; Company Size: 25 People

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)

; Interested Categories:
* Sales
* Marketing
* Business Operations
* Personnel Management

; Other Information:
* Bootstrapped since 1999
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies

----

== Chris Garrigues ==

; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]

; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]

; Phone: 512-322-0180

; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors

; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)

; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)

; Interested Categories:
* B2B Marketing
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention
* Managing growth
* Relationship-based businesses

; Other Information:
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.

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== Stephen Sopko ==

; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']

; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]

; Phone: 512 917 6020

; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors

; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)

; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events
* Games & Simulations
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity

; Other Information:
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling

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== Dave Pinckney ==

; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]

; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]

; Phone: 512-833-8634

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: North Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Managing virtual staff
* Non-standard business models
* Structures of financial transactions

; Other Information:
* Info systems veteran
* Founded in 2001
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]

----

== Mike O'Krent ==

; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]

; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]

; Phone: 512-431-8166

; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Round Rock

; Interested Categories:
* Baby boomer target marketing
* Personal Historian
* Starting up

----

== Karen Sopko ==

; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]

; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]

; Phone: 512 694 5366

; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies

; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan

; Location: Round Rock, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities

; Other Information:
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology

----

== Michelle Ewalt ==

; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition

; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com

; Phone: 512.762.8568
; Company Size: 1 person
; Stage: Growth
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state
; Interested Categories:
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.
# Transformational change

; Other Information:
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change.
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin

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== Cruce Saunders ==

; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]

; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com

; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305

; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team

; Stage: Growth, Bumpy

; Location: Austin and Dallas

; Interested Categories:
* Virtual Teaming
* Services business management
* Client service and client experience
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET

; Other Information:
* Founded 1997
* Largest employment 25 in 2000
* Started while at school at SMU

----

== Artie Berne ==

; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]

; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]

; Phone: 512-261-0024

; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston

; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)

; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX

; Interested Categories:
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:
* Small Company Financing_1
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4
* Buying of Companies_5
* Project Funding_6
* Equity Venture Capital_7
* Asset Lending_8
* Leasing of Equipment_9
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10

; Other Information:
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day.
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO
* Also running,lifting and
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions.

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== Stan Tyler ==

; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]

; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]

; Phone: 512-289-0604

; Company Size: 2 founders

; Stage: (Valley of Death)

; Location: Lake Travis

; Interested Categories:
# Retention and referral development 
# Web business development and operations assistance 
# Contract relationship design and management - associates

; Other Information:
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf
* Learning from our granddaughters
* Rowing
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years

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==Nancy Schill==

; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]

; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]

; Phone: 512-947-5447

; Company Size: 1 person

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* B2B marketing
* sales techniques
* sole proprietership business support
* valley of death strategies

; Other Information:
* Founder and Executive Coach
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)
* 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.
* working with professionals and executives on:
** professional growth strategy
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices
** emotional intelligence skills improvement
** strengths development
** organization and client communication
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity
** balancing priorities of work and personal life

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== Michael Wilson==

; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]

; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]

; Phone: 512-499-0018

; Company Size: 3

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Central/South Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Marketing
* Sales
* Strategy

; Other Information:

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== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==

; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Valley of Death bootstrappers
* Diversity bootstrappers
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board

; Other Information:
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.

*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102

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== Tonja O'Neill ==

; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]

; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]

; Phone: 512-257-2185

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business
* Software / High-Tech Industry
* Crisis Management

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== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==

; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]

; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]

; Phone: 512 970 7283

; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization
* eMyth

; Other Information:
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html

----

== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==

; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]

; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]

; Phone: 512-736-9884

; Company Size: 1

; Stage: VoD in Austin

; Location: Austin, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining
* Coaching for managers, executives

; Other Information:
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR
* Certified in 360 feedback

----

== Brian Moeskau ==

; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]

; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization, currently in Beta with several hundred users.

; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]

; Phone: 512-451-7294

; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Central Austin

; Interested Categories:
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery
* Web/user interface design and user experience
* Basketball

; Other Information:
* 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...

----

== Kevin Koym ==

see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]

; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]

; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]

; Phone: +1.512.698.9328

; Company Size: 2+contractors

; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!

; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India.

; Interested Categories:
* International Business
* Social Networking Theory
* Organizational Development

; Other Information:
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)
* Well connected through Austin
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus

----

== Rick Davis ==

; Company: [http://www.pelegrinegroup.com/ The Pelegrine Group, L.L.C.]

; Email: [mailto:rick.davis@pelegrinegroup.com]

; Phone: 512-419-7785

; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE

; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)

; Location: YOUR_LOCATION

; Interested Categories:
* YOUR_INTEREST_1
* YOUR_INTEREST_2
* ETC.

; Other Information:
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO
* ETC.

----

== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==

; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]

; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]

; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER

; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE

; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)

; Location: YOUR_LOCATION

; Interested Categories:
* YOUR_INTEREST_1
* YOUR_INTEREST_2
* ETC.

; Other Information:
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO
* ETC.

----

Boot Board (Austin)

2006-05-09T23:49:48Z

Radavis4: /* Rick Davis */

[[Category:Bootstrappers]]
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]

'''Boot Board'''

[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting]

Led by Bootstrappers:
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition
* Stan Tyler
* David Swedlow

== INSTRUCTIONS ==
;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.

;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.

;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.

;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.

;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].

=[[Existing Boot Boards]]=

== [[International Boot Board]]==

* Kevin Koym
* Rick Davis
* Jeremy Solomans

==[[Sample Personal Description]]==
[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.

= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =

== Ash Maurya ==

; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]

; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]

; Phone: 214.914.8658

; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]

; Stage: Late Valley of Death

; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas

; Interested Categories:
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software
* Collaboration Technology
* Starting Up

; Other Information:
* New to Austin
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com

----

== Brian Massey ==
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Business to Business Technology
* Marketing
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities

; Other Information:
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.
* Always looking to learn more.

----

== Chad Jewell ==

'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]

'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)

'''Stage:''' Growth

'''Location:''' Northwest Austin

'''Interested Categories:'''
Service / Consulting oriented businesses,
Business in growth phase,
Lifestyle businesses,
Sales

'''Other Information'''
Started my company 6 years ago.
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)

----

== David Swedlow ==

; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]

; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]

; Phone: 512-589-8834

; Company Size: 2 people

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Social Software (Web 2.0)
* Emergent Community
* Collaborative Technology
* Transformational Dynamics

; Other Information:
* New Bootstrapper
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification
* Future Studies

----

== Phyllis Blees==
; Company: Blees Creative Academies

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Ideation

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Managing a start-up
* For-Profit educational models
* Financing start-ups

; Other Information:
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies
* 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
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair

----

== Michael Trafton ==

; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]

; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]

; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201

; Company Size: 25 People

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)

; Interested Categories:
* Sales
* Marketing
* Business Operations
* Personnel Management

; Other Information:
* Bootstrapped since 1999
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies

----

== Chris Garrigues ==

; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]

; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]

; Phone: 512-322-0180

; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors

; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)

; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)

; Interested Categories:
* B2B Marketing
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention
* Managing growth
* Relationship-based businesses

; Other Information:
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.

----

== Stephen Sopko ==

; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']

; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]

; Phone: 512 917 6020

; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors

; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)

; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events
* Games & Simulations
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity

; Other Information:
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling

----

== Dave Pinckney ==

; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]

; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]

; Phone: 512-833-8634

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: North Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Managing virtual staff
* Non-standard business models
* Structures of financial transactions

; Other Information:
* Info systems veteran
* Founded in 2001
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]

----

== Mike O'Krent ==

; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]

; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]

; Phone: 512-431-8166

; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Round Rock

; Interested Categories:
* Baby boomer target marketing
* Personal Historian
* Starting up

----

== Karen Sopko ==

; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]

; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]

; Phone: 512 694 5366

; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies

; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan

; Location: Round Rock, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities

; Other Information:
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology

----

== Michelle Ewalt ==

; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition

; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com

; Phone: 512.762.8568
; Company Size: 1 person
; Stage: Growth
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state
; Interested Categories:
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.
# Transformational change

; Other Information:
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change.
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin

----

== Cruce Saunders ==

; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]

; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com

; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305

; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team

; Stage: Growth, Bumpy

; Location: Austin and Dallas

; Interested Categories:
* Virtual Teaming
* Services business management
* Client service and client experience
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET

; Other Information:
* Founded 1997
* Largest employment 25 in 2000
* Started while at school at SMU

----

== Artie Berne ==

; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]

; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]

; Phone: 512-261-0024

; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston

; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)

; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX

; Interested Categories:
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:
* Small Company Financing_1
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4
* Buying of Companies_5
* Project Funding_6
* Equity Venture Capital_7
* Asset Lending_8
* Leasing of Equipment_9
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10

; Other Information:
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day.
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO
* Also running,lifting and
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions.

----

== Stan Tyler ==

; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]

; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]

; Phone: 512-289-0604

; Company Size: 2 founders

; Stage: (Valley of Death)

; Location: Lake Travis

; Interested Categories:
# Retention and referral development 
# Web business development and operations assistance 
# Contract relationship design and management - associates

; Other Information:
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf
* Learning from our granddaughters
* Rowing
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years

----

==Nancy Schill==

; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]

; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]

; Phone: 512-947-5447

; Company Size: 1 person

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* B2B marketing
* sales techniques
* sole proprietership business support
* valley of death strategies

; Other Information:
* Founder and Executive Coach
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)
* 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.
* working with professionals and executives on:
** professional growth strategy
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices
** emotional intelligence skills improvement
** strengths development
** organization and client communication
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity
** balancing priorities of work and personal life

----

== Michael Wilson==

; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]

; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]

; Phone: 512-499-0018

; Company Size: 3

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Central/South Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Marketing
* Sales
* Strategy

; Other Information:

----

== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==

; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Valley of Death bootstrappers
* Diversity bootstrappers
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board

; Other Information:
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.

*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102

----

== Tonja O'Neill ==

; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]

; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]

; Phone: 512-257-2185

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business
* Software / High-Tech Industry
* Crisis Management

----

== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==

; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]

; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]

; Phone: 512 970 7283

; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization
* eMyth

; Other Information:
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html

----

== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==

; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]

; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]

; Phone: 512-736-9884

; Company Size: 1

; Stage: VoD in Austin

; Location: Austin, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining
* Coaching for managers, executives

; Other Information:
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR
* Certified in 360 feedback

----

== Brian Moeskau ==

; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]

; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization, currently in Beta with several hundred users.

; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]

; Phone: 512-451-7294

; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Central Austin

; Interested Categories:
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery
* Web/user interface design and user experience
* Basketball

; Other Information:
* 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...

----

== Kevin Koym ==

see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]

; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]

; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]

; Phone: +1.512.698.9328

; Company Size: 2+contractors

; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!

; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India.

; Interested Categories:
* International Business
* Social Networking Theory
* Organizational Development

; Other Information:
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)
* Well connected through Austin
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus

----

== Rick Davis ==

; Company: [http://www.pelegrinegroup.com / The Pelegrine Group, L.L.C.]

; Email: [mailto:rick.davis@pelegrinegroup.com]

; Phone: 512-419-7785

; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE

; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)

; Location: YOUR_LOCATION

; Interested Categories:
* YOUR_INTEREST_1
* YOUR_INTEREST_2
* ETC.

; Other Information:
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO
* ETC.

----

== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==

; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]

; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]

; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER

; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE

; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)

; Location: YOUR_LOCATION

; Interested Categories:
* YOUR_INTEREST_1
* YOUR_INTEREST_2
* ETC.

; Other Information:
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO
* ETC.

----

Boot Board (Austin)

2006-05-09T23:49:07Z

Radavis4: /* Rick Davis*/

[[Category:Bootstrappers]]
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]

'''Boot Board'''

[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting]

Led by Bootstrappers:
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition
* Stan Tyler
* David Swedlow

== INSTRUCTIONS ==
;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.

;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.

;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.

;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.

;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].

=[[Existing Boot Boards]]=

== [[International Boot Board]]==

* Kevin Koym
* Rick Davis
* Jeremy Solomans

==[[Sample Personal Description]]==
[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.

= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =

== Ash Maurya ==

; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]

; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]

; Phone: 214.914.8658

; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]

; Stage: Late Valley of Death

; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas

; Interested Categories:
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software
* Collaboration Technology
* Starting Up

; Other Information:
* New to Austin
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com

----

== Brian Massey ==
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Business to Business Technology
* Marketing
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities

; Other Information:
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.
* Always looking to learn more.

----

== Chad Jewell ==

'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]

'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)

'''Stage:''' Growth

'''Location:''' Northwest Austin

'''Interested Categories:'''
Service / Consulting oriented businesses,
Business in growth phase,
Lifestyle businesses,
Sales

'''Other Information'''
Started my company 6 years ago.
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)

----

== David Swedlow ==

; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]

; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]

; Phone: 512-589-8834

; Company Size: 2 people

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Social Software (Web 2.0)
* Emergent Community
* Collaborative Technology
* Transformational Dynamics

; Other Information:
* New Bootstrapper
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification
* Future Studies

----

== Phyllis Blees==
; Company: Blees Creative Academies

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Ideation

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Managing a start-up
* For-Profit educational models
* Financing start-ups

; Other Information:
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies
* 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
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair

----

== Michael Trafton ==

; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]

; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]

; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201

; Company Size: 25 People

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)

; Interested Categories:
* Sales
* Marketing
* Business Operations
* Personnel Management

; Other Information:
* Bootstrapped since 1999
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies

----

== Chris Garrigues ==

; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]

; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]

; Phone: 512-322-0180

; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors

; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)

; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)

; Interested Categories:
* B2B Marketing
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention
* Managing growth
* Relationship-based businesses

; Other Information:
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.

----

== Stephen Sopko ==

; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']

; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]

; Phone: 512 917 6020

; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors

; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)

; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events
* Games & Simulations
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity

; Other Information:
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling

----

== Dave Pinckney ==

; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]

; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]

; Phone: 512-833-8634

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: North Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Managing virtual staff
* Non-standard business models
* Structures of financial transactions

; Other Information:
* Info systems veteran
* Founded in 2001
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]

----

== Mike O'Krent ==

; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]

; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]

; Phone: 512-431-8166

; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Round Rock

; Interested Categories:
* Baby boomer target marketing
* Personal Historian
* Starting up

----

== Karen Sopko ==

; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]

; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]

; Phone: 512 694 5366

; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies

; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan

; Location: Round Rock, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities

; Other Information:
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology

----

== Michelle Ewalt ==

; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition

; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com

; Phone: 512.762.8568
; Company Size: 1 person
; Stage: Growth
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state
; Interested Categories:
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.
# Transformational change

; Other Information:
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change.
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin

----

== Cruce Saunders ==

; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]

; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com

; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305

; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team

; Stage: Growth, Bumpy

; Location: Austin and Dallas

; Interested Categories:
* Virtual Teaming
* Services business management
* Client service and client experience
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET

; Other Information:
* Founded 1997
* Largest employment 25 in 2000
* Started while at school at SMU

----

== Artie Berne ==

; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]

; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]

; Phone: 512-261-0024

; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston

; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)

; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX

; Interested Categories:
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:
* Small Company Financing_1
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4
* Buying of Companies_5
* Project Funding_6
* Equity Venture Capital_7
* Asset Lending_8
* Leasing of Equipment_9
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10

; Other Information:
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day.
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO
* Also running,lifting and
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions.

----

== Stan Tyler ==

; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]

; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]

; Phone: 512-289-0604

; Company Size: 2 founders

; Stage: (Valley of Death)

; Location: Lake Travis

; Interested Categories:
# Retention and referral development 
# Web business development and operations assistance 
# Contract relationship design and management - associates

; Other Information:
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf
* Learning from our granddaughters
* Rowing
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years

----

==Nancy Schill==

; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]

; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]

; Phone: 512-947-5447

; Company Size: 1 person

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* B2B marketing
* sales techniques
* sole proprietership business support
* valley of death strategies

; Other Information:
* Founder and Executive Coach
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)
* 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.
* working with professionals and executives on:
** professional growth strategy
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices
** emotional intelligence skills improvement
** strengths development
** organization and client communication
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity
** balancing priorities of work and personal life

----

== Michael Wilson==

; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]

; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]

; Phone: 512-499-0018

; Company Size: 3

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Central/South Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Marketing
* Sales
* Strategy

; Other Information:

----

== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==

; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Valley of Death bootstrappers
* Diversity bootstrappers
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board

; Other Information:
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.

*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102

----

== Tonja O'Neill ==

; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]

; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]

; Phone: 512-257-2185

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business
* Software / High-Tech Industry
* Crisis Management

----

== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==

; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]

; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]

; Phone: 512 970 7283

; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization
* eMyth

; Other Information:
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html

----

== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==

; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]

; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]

; Phone: 512-736-9884

; Company Size: 1

; Stage: VoD in Austin

; Location: Austin, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining
* Coaching for managers, executives

; Other Information:
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR
* Certified in 360 feedback

----

== Brian Moeskau ==

; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]

; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization, currently in Beta with several hundred users.

; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]

; Phone: 512-451-7294

; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Central Austin

; Interested Categories:
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery
* Web/user interface design and user experience
* Basketball

; Other Information:
* 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...

----

== Kevin Koym ==

see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]

; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]

; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]

; Phone: +1.512.698.9328

; Company Size: 2+contractors

; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!

; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India.

; Interested Categories:
* International Business
* Social Networking Theory
* Organizational Development

; Other Information:
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)
* Well connected through Austin
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus

----

== Rick Davis ==

; Company: [http://www.pelegrinegroup.com]

; Email: [mailto:rick.davis@pelegrinegroup.com]

; Phone: 512-419-7785

; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE

; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)

; Location: YOUR_LOCATION

; Interested Categories:
* YOUR_INTEREST_1
* YOUR_INTEREST_2
* ETC.

; Other Information:
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO
* ETC.

----

== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==

; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]

; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]

; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER

; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE

; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)

; Location: YOUR_LOCATION

; Interested Categories:
* YOUR_INTEREST_1
* YOUR_INTEREST_2
* ETC.

; Other Information:
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO
* ETC.

----

Boot Board (Austin)

2006-05-09T23:48:08Z

Radavis4: /* YOUR_NAME_HERE */

[[Category:Bootstrappers]]
[[Category:Bootstrap Subgroups]]

'''Boot Board'''

[http://tinyurl.com/pxerx/ Boot Board Presentation from 4/10/2006 meeting]

Led by Bootstrappers:
* Michelle Ewalt, Team in Transition
* Stan Tyler
* David Swedlow

== INSTRUCTIONS ==
;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.

;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.

;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.

;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.

;Questions: If you have any questions, please email [mailto:david@metastorming.com|David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com].

=[[Existing Boot Boards]]=

== [[International Boot Board]]==

* Kevin Koym
* Rick Davis
* Jeremy Solomans

==[[Sample Personal Description]]==
[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.

= Personal Descriptions of Interested Individuals =

== Ash Maurya ==

; Company: [http://www.wiredreach.com/ WiredReach]

; Email: [mailto:ash@wiredreach.com ash@wiredreach.com]

; Phone: 214.914.8658

; Company Size: 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]

; Stage: Late Valley of Death

; Location: Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas

; Interested Categories:
* User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software
* Collaboration Technology
* Starting Up

; Other Information:
* New to Austin
* Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002
* weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com

----

== Brian Massey ==
; Company: [http://www.hearthis.com/ HearThis.com]

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Business to Business Technology
* Marketing
* Web 2.0/Customer Communities

; Other Information:
* Currently part-time Bootstrapper.
* 7-year veteran of Bootstrapped business.
* Advisor to several bootstrap businesses.
* Always looking to learn more.

----

== Chad Jewell ==

'''Company:''' Austin Office Space, Inc. [http://www.AustinOfficeSpace.com www.AustinOfficeSpace.com]

'''Company Size:''' Small (4 people)

'''Stage:''' Growth

'''Location:''' Northwest Austin

'''Interested Categories:'''
Service / Consulting oriented businesses,
Business in growth phase,
Lifestyle businesses,
Sales

'''Other Information'''
Started my company 6 years ago.
Just sold 1/2 to my lead associate.
Have 6 person confernce room that could hold up to 8?
Previous expenrence organizing my own businss Mastermind group
Was a member of The Alternative Board (TAB)

----

== David Swedlow ==

; Company: [http://www.synergyforinnovation.com/ SPCI]

; Email: [mailto:david@metastorming.com david@metastorming.com]

; Phone: 512-589-8834

; Company Size: 2 people

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Social Software (Web 2.0)
* Emergent Community
* Collaborative Technology
* Transformational Dynamics

; Other Information:
* New Bootstrapper
* Member of local chapter of American Creativity Association
* Spiral Dynamics Integral, Level 1 and Level 2 certification
* Future Studies

----

== Phyllis Blees==
; Company: Blees Creative Academies

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Ideation

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Managing a start-up
* For-Profit educational models
* Financing start-ups

; Other Information:
* Just sold first school (a for-profit, primary school)
* Am planning the next school in my business model--an adult center for creative and innovative studies
* 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
* Member of the Board of American Creativity Association-Austin Chapter
* Bootstrap Library Co-Chair

----

== Michael Trafton ==

; Company: [http://www.bluefishgroup.com/ Blue Fish Development Group]

; Email: [mailto:mikey@bluefishgroup.com]

; Phone: 512-469-9300 x201

; Company Size: 25 People

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Downtown Austin (6th & Brazos)

; Interested Categories:
* Sales
* Marketing
* Business Operations
* Personnel Management

; Other Information:
* Bootstrapped since 1999
* Member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization
* I'm interested in a Boot Board made up of other growth companies

----

== Chris Garrigues ==

; Company: [http://www.Trinsics.com/ Trinsic Solutions]

; Email: [mailto:cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com cwg-bootstrap@trinsics.com]

; Phone: 512-322-0180

; Company Size: Myself and a few contractors

; Stage: Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)

; Location: Central Austin (14th and West)

; Interested Categories:
* B2B Marketing
* Customer Satisfaction & Retention
* Managing growth
* Relationship-based businesses

; Other Information:
* Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995
* Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.
* Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.
* I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.

----

== Stephen Sopko ==

; Company: [http://www.cbandgames.com/ '''Creative Bandwidth, LP''']

; Email: [mailto:steve@ckventures.com steve@ckventures.com]

; Phone: 512 917 6020

; Company Size: 5 owners & contractors

; Stage: Valley of Death (just past the buzzards circling overhead, make a left)

; Location: Round Rock/Georgetown, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Consulting (Sales, Proposals, Contract Negotiation & Management)
* Seminars & Teambuilding Events
* Games & Simulations
* Ideaphoria & the Practical Application of Creativity

; Other Information:
* Board Member: International Association for Contract & Commercial Management [http://www.iaccm.com/]
* Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [http://www.ckventures.com/]
* Former US Federal Contracting Officer, Oil & Gas Technology Purchasing Manager, Dell Negotiator & Offshorer
* Personality Traits: Driver/Driver, but humbled by being married to a much smarter Analytical...
* Member: Theodore Roosevelt Society & Society for Industrial Archaeology
* Hobbies: history (period 1865-1939), kayaking, music (1980s & smooth jazz), travel, child wrangling

----

== Dave Pinckney ==

; Company: [http://www.egeriadesign.com/ Egeria Design]

; Email: [mailto:egeria@austin.rr.com Egeria Design mailbox]

; Phone: 512-833-8634

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: North Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Managing virtual staff
* Non-standard business models
* Structures of financial transactions

; Other Information:
* Info systems veteran
* Founded in 2001
* Docent: [http://www.blantonmuseum.org/ Blanton Museum of Art]
* Unofficial Photographer: [http://www.centraltexasballooning.com/ Central Texas Ballooning Association]

----

== Mike O'Krent ==

; Company: [http://www.lifestoriesalive.com/ LifeStories Alive]

; Email: [mailto:mokrent@lifestoriesalive.com]

; Phone: 512-431-8166

; Company Size: 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Round Rock

; Interested Categories:
* Baby boomer target marketing
* Personal Historian
* Starting up

----

== Karen Sopko ==

; Company: [http://ckventures.com/ Cedar Key Ventures, LLC]

; Email: [mailto:karen@ckventures.com karen@ckventures.com]

; Phone: 512 694 5366

; Company Size: 2 founders, all work done with contractors/allies

; Stage: Valley of Death - but hey I'm getting a great tan

; Location: Round Rock, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Proposals (Responding to RFP/RFQ's, Requirements Capture)
* Business Development (Relationship and consultative selling)
* Services Marketing (new service offering development)
* IT Desktop Services Outsourcing, Service Desk Management
* Knowledge Management, online Best Practice communities

; Other Information:
* see www.idealreview.com for articles on how not to get outsourced
* Advise on enterprise IT service management, processes, and metrics
* Former life - Alcatel, EDS, SUNY, Dell, NASA, Sailmaker's Apprentice, Quasar Hunter
* Current Alliances with Equaterra, InSource Partners, IACCM, CMI
* Volunteer Work, Capitol BEST Robotics, JASON, Dale-Carnegie
* Hobbies astronomy, watercolors, cycling, and photography
* Member IEEE, AMA, Austin Freelancers, Home Based Working Mothers, Austin Women in Technology

----

== Michelle Ewalt ==

; Company: http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition

; Email: mewalt@teamintransition.com

; Phone: 512.762.8568
; Company Size: 1 person
; Stage: Growth
; Client locations: Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state
; Interested Categories:
# Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.
# Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.
# Transformational change

; Other Information:
*Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.
*Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change.
*Client focus: leadership development and change management.
*Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.
*NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer
*Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.
*Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.
*Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin

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== Cruce Saunders ==

; Company: [http://www.ariesnet.com/ Ariesnet Inc.]

; Email: csaunders AT ariesnet.com

; Phone: 888-932-3375 x 305

; Company Size: 12 + extended virtual team

; Stage: Growth, Bumpy

; Location: Austin and Dallas

; Interested Categories:
* Virtual Teaming
* Services business management
* Client service and client experience
* Sales and marketing, cash flow management, recruiting
* Web application development, IT Services, .NET

; Other Information:
* Founded 1997
* Largest employment 25 in 2000
* Started while at school at SMU

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== Artie Berne ==

; Company: [http://www.Performance-Capital.net/ Performance Capital]

; Email: [mailto:aberne@austin.rr.com aberne@austin.rr.com]

; Phone: 512-261-0024

; Company Size: Me, Myself and I in Lakeway and 1 to 5 people in Houston

; Stage: (I'd say we are Peaking over the Valley into the Sunshine)

; Location: Beutiful Lakeway,TX

; Interested Categories:
SERVICES MY COMPANY PROVIDES AND MY INTERESTS:
* Small Company Financing_1
* Accounts Receivable Financing_2
* Help companies get through the Valley of Death_3
* Upfront Purchase Order or Contract Financing_4
* Buying of Companies_5
* Project Funding_6
* Equity Venture Capital_7
* Asset Lending_8
* Leasing of Equipment_9
* Debt Resolution - Crisis Management_9
* Real Estate Financing of Commercial Properties_10

; Other Information:
* In my past life I was hired to Start, Train, Manage, Motivate and Push Sales Organizations.
* I'm Very Goal oriented and list motivated to get alot of "stuff" done during the day.
* HOBBIES: Sales and Marketing Consulting for Real Estate Deals
* My other hobbies are full Contact Martial Arts - KAJUKENBO
* Also running,lifting and
* Real Estate investing and doing creative real estate transactions.

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== Stan Tyler ==

; Company: [http://www.champions-edge.com Champions Edge]

; Email: [mailto:stan@champions-edge.com stan@champions-edge.com]

; Phone: 512-289-0604

; Company Size: 2 founders

; Stage: (Valley of Death)

; Location: Lake Travis

; Interested Categories:
# Retention and referral development 
# Web business development and operations assistance 
# Contract relationship design and management - associates

; Other Information:
* Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf
* Learning from our granddaughters
* Rowing
* Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years

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==Nancy Schill==

; Company: [http://www.executiveintelligentcoaching.com/ Executive Intelligent Coaching]

; Email: [mailto:nschill@executiveintelligentcoaching.com]

; Phone: 512-947-5447

; Company Size: 1 person

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* B2B marketing
* sales techniques
* sole proprietership business support
* valley of death strategies

; Other Information:
* Founder and Executive Coach
* B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)
* 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.
* working with professionals and executives on:
** professional growth strategy
** strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices
** emotional intelligence skills improvement
** strengths development
** organization and client communication
** prioritizing demands for greater productivity
** balancing priorities of work and personal life

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== Michael Wilson==

; Company: [http://www.smallworldlabs.com/ Small World Labs]

; Email: [mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]

; Phone: 512-499-0018

; Company Size: 3

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Central/South Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Marketing
* Sales
* Strategy

; Other Information:

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== Diversity AND Valley of Death BOOT BOARD ==

; Stage: Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Valley of Death bootstrappers
* Diversity bootstrappers
* additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board

; Other Information:
* Our first Boot Board meeting is planned for Monday May 15th, from 4-7 pm.
* Paricipants include: Nancy Schill, Chris G., Jeff, Andrea, Ash, and Mike O'Krent. Facillitators include Stan and Michelle.
* Please note that we are looking to grow this group and likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group.

*LOCATION of meeting (thanks Chad Jewell!!) Austin Office Space- 3415 Greystone Dr. #102

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== Tonja O'Neill ==

; Company: [http://www.soverex.com/ Soverex]

; Email: [mailto:tonja@soverex.com tonja@soverex.com]

; Phone: 512-257-2185

; Company Size: Small

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Northwest Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business
* Software / High-Tech Industry
* Crisis Management

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== Jeff Hotz/TESTCo ==

; TESTCo: [http://www.testco.com/ TESTCo]

; Email: [mailto:jeff@testco.com jeff@testco.com]

; Phone: 512 970 7283

; Company Size: 5 Local & 40+ Offshore

; Stage: Growth

; Location: Austin

; Interested Categories:
* Lead Generation Messages & Channels
* Operating Efficiencies/Systemization
* eMyth

; Other Information:
* http://testco.com/main/OurTeam.html

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== Corliss McGinty, SPHR ==

; Company: [http://www.HRMomma.com/ Soft Solutions Consulting]

; Email: [mailto:Corliss@HRMomma.com Corliss@HRMomma.com]

; Phone: 512-736-9884

; Company Size: 1

; Stage: VoD in Austin

; Location: Austin, TX

; Interested Categories:
* Human Resource Consulting for small businesses
* Talent-getting, developing and retaining
* Coaching for managers, executives

; Other Information:
* Certified Coach and Senior Professional in HR
* Certified in 360 feedback

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== Brian Moeskau ==

; Company: [http://www.thinkfirst.biz/ ThinkFirst, LLC]

; Product: [http://www.myhomepoint.com/ MyHomePoint.com]: Family-oriented scheduling and organization, currently in Beta with several hundred users.

; Email: [mailto:brian@myhomepoint.com brian@myhomepoint.com]

; Phone: 512-451-7294

; Company Size: 2 (myself + cofounder)

; Stage: Valley of Death

; Location: Central Austin

; Interested Categories:
* All aspects of software development, architecture and delivery
* Web/user interface design and user experience
* Basketball

; Other Information:
* 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...

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== Kevin Koym ==

see my profile link at [[User:kkoym ]]

; Company: [http://www.enterpriseteaming.com/ Enterprise Teaming, llc]

; Email: [mailto:kevin.koym@enterpriseteaming.com]

; Phone: +1.512.698.9328

; Company Size: 2+contractors

; Stage: Valley of Death, Baby!

; Location: Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India.

; Interested Categories:
* International Business
* Social Networking Theory
* Organizational Development

; Other Information:
* Entrepreneur since 1994; lived and worked in US, Mexico, Chile
* Lots of bootstrapping scars (and experience)
* Well connected through Austin
* Looking for someone that can help me take our diseparate message and boil it down to a single focus

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== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==

; Company: [http://www.pelegrinegroup.com]

; Email: [mailto:rick.davis@pelegrinegroup.com]

; Phone: 512-419-7785

; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE

; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)

; Location: YOUR_LOCATION

; Interested Categories:
* YOUR_INTEREST_1
* YOUR_INTEREST_2
* ETC.

; Other Information:
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO
* ETC.

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== YOUR_NAME_HERE ==

; Company: [http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/ YOUR_COMPANY]

; Email: [mailto:YOUR_EMAIL YOUR_EMAIL]

; Phone: YOUR_PHONENUMBER

; Company Size: YOUR_SIZE

; Stage: YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)

; Location: YOUR_LOCATION

; Interested Categories:
* YOUR_INTEREST_1
* YOUR_INTEREST_2
* ETC.

; Other Information:
* YOUR_OTHER_INFO
* ETC.

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International Subgroup

2006-05-09T23:43:50Z

Radavis4:

'''Group Parameters for the International Boot Board'''

Core elements:
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

Logistics (to be discussed and confirmed after first meeting):
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

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.

International Subgroup

2006-05-09T23:42:38Z

Radavis4:

'''Group Parameters for the International Boot Board'''

Core elements:
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

Logistics (to be discussed and confirmed after first meetint):
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

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.

International Subgroup

2006-05-09T23:41:15Z

Radavis4:

'''Group Parameters for the International Boot Board'''

Core elements:
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
5) You must have spent extensive time traveling internationally and/or living outside of your home country

Logistics (to be discussed and confirmed after first meetint):
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
5) Group commitment required - a rotating facilitator within the group expected

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.

International Subgroup

2006-05-09T23:40:14Z

Radavis4: Group Parameters for the International Boot Board