Yes, We Are Having Breakfast July 4
You won’t miss the fireworks, we will start at 7:30am and be done by 9AM at Hobee’s Palo Alto. A couple of quotes relevant to […]
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Greg Gianforte’s 8 Reasons to Bootstrap
In a Mar-14-2005 article on SandHill.com entitled “Bootstrapping: The Secret to Entrepreneurial Success” Greg Gianforte, CEO of RightNow Technologies and author of “Bootstrapping Your Business:
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Tips for Entrepreneurs Gleaned From Jan-May 2008 Breakfasts
I had jotted down some notes on various 3×5 cards of some good comments and suggestion I’ve heard at different breakfasts in the first few
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Is It Too Early For You to Hire a Salesperson?
A couple of suggestions from breakfast discussions over the last three months Hiring a sales guy too early is not effective. If you haven’t discovered
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Debra Willrett Inventor of MacProject at July 15 Breakfast in Sunnyvale
Debra Willrett, founder of Expert Software Consulting, will discuss “Lesson’s Learned from the Invention and Sale of MacProject”. Debra is the inventor of the Macintosh
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Investment Pitch Preparation: One Exit from Bootstrapping
We had a first timer at the last breakfast who was in the fund raising process. For some this is the ultimate goal of bootstrapping a business. I pass along some places he mentioned
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One Thing I Learned From Today’s Breakfast
Today at breakfast we had an interesting discussion on selling your technology vs. selling your business. We discussed the motivation of the buying company (making
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Why Do You Meet So Early?
We get a lot of serious folks at 7:30 in the morning. It’s for bootstrappers, who are founders who are trying to sell what they
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Congratulations Mike Bitzko: CadPlex Acquired by PCB Matrix
Mike Bitzko, who gave a great short talk last May year on lessons learned from the acquisition of his last company (see his interview with
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Cuong Do on Engineering YouTube’s Scalability
Peter Hodge followed up with a pointer to the YouTube talk at the Google Seattle Conference on Scalability by Cuong Do. Peter said that his
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