Valley of Death Subgroup

For bootstrappers in the Valley of Death Stage of their venture.

The VoD Phase Image by Marilyn Martin

2009

Jan 12: Kick-off! Bring your desires, feedback and input to help shape your Bootstrap Community in 2009. Roundtable at 5pm.
Feb 9: Boot Boards Kickoff. Tony Chen: Why Start or Join a Boot Board
Mar 9: No Bootstrap Meeting - check out RISE & SXSW
Apr 13: BootstrapAustin.COM
May 11: Meet the Bootstrap Subgroups
Jun 8:
Jul 13:
Aug 10:
Sep 14:
Oct 12:
Nov 9:
Dec 14:

Jan 14: David Ansel, founder The Soup Peddler
Feb 11: Paul Carrozza, founder RunTex
Mar 10: SXSW special meeting downtown
Apr 14: Clayton Christopher, founder Sweet Leaf Tea
May 12: Larry Warshaw, founder Constructive Ventures
Jun 9: Rick Engel, founder Engel Management - Austin Java, Uncle Billy's, Little Woodrows
Jul 14: Bootstrap Austin 5yr Party! A pub crawl, starting at the Gingerman, where we had our first meeting.
Aug 11: Round table discussion
Sep 8: Kevin Koym How can a bootstrap entrepreneur use an Enterprise Tribe?
Oct 13: BootBoard Formation
Nov 10: Gary Hoover, Club E Launch, Long Center
Dec 8: Heather McKissick, Bootstrap Experience Launch

TinyURL for this section: http://tinyurl.com/2tepn8

TinyURL for this section: http://tinyurl.com/2krang

Add these dates to your calendar and use the Evite links to keep updated on Event details

Jan 8:Develop Your Elevator Pitch (by the Bootstrap Speaking Initiative). (Evite link)
Feb 12: Rosy Jalifi, Director SBDP, City of Austin (MEETING HELD AT SBDP OFFICES). (Evite Link)
Mar 12: Special Joint Event with SXSWi. (Evite Link)
Apr 9: Launch of 2007 Boot Boards (Evite Link)
May 14: Bjorn Billhardt, Founder Enspire, this is also the official kickoff for the Growth Subgroup. (Evite Link)
June 11: Tim League, founder Alamo Drafthouse(Evite Link)
July 9: Steve Bercu, Owner BookPeople (Evite Link)
Aug 13: David Smith (Evite Link)
Sep 10: Jeff Sandefer, Master Entrepreneur and founder of the Acton MBA. (Evite Link)
Oct 8: Bijoy explains the Bootstrap stages, actions and principles as outlined in the Bootstrap Bootcamp. (Evite Link)
Nov 12: Bootstrap Austin feedback meeting. (Evite Link)
Dec 10: Year-end celebration with bootstrappers, friends and supporters. (Evite Link)

Feb 13, Craig Fryar, Serial Entrepreneur founder Seedstage. Boot Rap Podcast
March 13, No meeting. Come to the Bootstrap Panel, as part of this year's SXSW Interactive Digitial Convergence Track. Other bootstrappers are featured on an earlier panel at 3:30pm. Boot Rap Podcast
April 10. Introduction to the Boot Board Initiative
May 8, Intro to Bootstrap's Open Source Community Boot Rap Podcast of a similar talk
June 12, Susan Strausberg, Cofounder of Edgar Online. Boot Rap Podcast
July 10, Panel, Selling your Company
Aug 14, Mark Blumenthal, founder of American Botanical Council - Bootstrapping your NonProfit. Boot Rap Podcast (by Nonprofit Subgroup)
Sep 11, Steven Tomlinson, Entrepreneur Teacher Acton MBA on Combining Your Passions Boot Rap Podcast
Oct 9: 8 Minute Ripple (by Bootstrap Connector)
Nov 13: Roi James (by Art Subgroup). Roi James Talk Description
Dec 11: 2006 Review, 2007 Plans and Technology Showcase

Jan 5, ROUNDTABLE
Feb 15, Eric Simone, cofounder, Perficient, owner Girl Next Door
March 14, Joe Liemandt Trilogy (postponed)
April 11, ROUNDTABLE
May 9, Amy Miller, Amy's Ice Cream
June 13, Carl Paul Golfsmith
July 11, ROUNDTABLE
August 8, Peter Huff, Blue Sage Capital
September 12, Jack Long, Founder Lone Star Overnight, PeopleAdmin, Teacher Acton MBA
October 10, Barry Thornton, Founder Clearcube
November 14, John Paul DeJoria, John Paul Mitchell Systems. Boot Rap Podcast of a similar talk.
December 12, Tito Beveridge, Tito's Handmade Vodka

October 13, Neal Kocurek, founder Radian

Subgroups by Stage
Ideation, Valley of Death, Growth