A roundup of events for November & December 2016 for Bootstrappers Breakfast
Peer Advisory Board: Revenue Growth Planning For Your Business in 2017 Sat-Nov-19 9:30am to Noon at Pacific Workplaces Sunnyvale. This is an Open House for Mastermind Group that complements the Bootstrappers Breakfast meetings. Bring your 2017 plans–and 2016 lessons learned–and let’s get a jump-start on 2017.
Thanksgiving Day (Nov-24-2016) Potluck for Bootstrappers in San Jose. Don’t have family to visit on Thanksgiving? Join us for Thanksgiving dinner. Bring drinks or your favorite dish to share. We are supplying the turkey and some sides and are looking forward to a Bootstrappers Thanksgiving, Please RSVP if you plan to attend and let us know what you plan to bring so we can get a final headcount. Plan on dropping by around 2pm.
Cofounder Academy: Cofounder Legal Challenges and Solutions Tue-Nov-29 at Hacker Dojo. When you join a startup for the first time you can be overwhelmed legal and financial issues that you’ve never had to deal with before. We will have a panel of three lawyers to talk about legal and financial issues for cofounders: Seffi Kaminitz, Karl-Heinz Lachnit, and Steven Swernofsky. Sean Murphy will moderate.
“Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There’s this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We’re especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we’re powerful without it.”
Laurie Anderson
Palo Alto Bootstrappers Breakfast Fri-Dec-2 7:30am at Hobees. Look for us in back room. Elena Krasnoperova is a featured attendee who will offer a briefing on “Learning Hacks for Bootstrappers.” Elena will introduce the AAA learning framework: Acquire, Absorb, Apply – and then teach us the hacks for each of the 3 stages. Attendees will receive a cheat sheet of learning tools to take home. Elena Krasnoperova is a former executive at eBay, PayPal, Zong and oDesk, and the founder of two bootstrapped companies in the “family tech” space: SimplyCircle and Calroo.
San Francisco Bootstrappers Breakfast Wed-Dec-7 at 9am at Split Bread, 560 Mission St. Focus topic: Financing your startup. Pete Tormey, an experienced entrepreneur and attorney, will address the variety of funding options available to startups from a bootstrapping perspective. Besides introducing some of the options, he will provide some tips and tricks gleaned from his years working with startups.
“Before you start working on something ask yourself,
“For long will what I am about to work on matter?”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sunnyvale Bootstrappers Breakfast Tue-Dec-20 at 7:30am at Specialty’s 605 Tasman Drive 94089, Sunnyvale, CA across from light rail station. Order at counter, we are at the big table in the back.
Mountain View Bootstrappers Breakfast Wed-Dec-28 Note that we are meeting at Red Rock on the Wednesday between Christmas and New Years.
“I would like to thank yesterday’s failures for today’s successes.
I would like to thank today’s losses for tomorrow’s gains.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Bootstrappers Breakfast Is Looking for Entrepreneurs to Share Lessons Learned: If you know someone who would be a good featured attendee at a 2017 Bootstrappers Breakfast we are looking for folks willing to share lessons learned from their entrepreneurial journey. Here are some recaps of recent breakfasts:
- Fri-Sep-2 in Palo Alto Recap: Managing Your Action List and Avoiding Procrastination
- Tue-Aug-16 in Sunnyvale: David Saxby of SaxbyIoT offered a briefing on “8 things you should think about (a lot) before you start a company: lessons learned from founding six startups”
- February 2016 in Mountain View: Anne Cohen on Networking in Silicon Valley
- November 2015 in Sunnyvale: Money Saving Tips for 2015 with this handout on expense tracking