VOD1 Boot Board
Contents
Mission Statement
The Diversity/VoD bootboard's mission is helping one another get through the Valley of Death. Diversity is a good thing, but we use it, rather than focus on it.
Facilitator
Jeff Hotz
Meetings
Members
[Sorted alphabetically by last name]
Chris Garrigues
- Company
- Trinsic Solutions
- 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.
Ash Maurya
- Company
- WiredReach
- 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
Mike O'Krent
- Company
- LifeStories Alive
- [1]
- 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
Tonja O'Neill
- Company
- Soverex
- 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
Nancy Schill
- Company
- Executive Intelligent Coaching
- [2]
- 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
- improving team functioning
Dave Pinckney
- Company
- Egeria Design
- 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: Blanton Museum of Art
- Unofficial Photographer: Central Texas Ballooning Association
