Boot Board (Austin)

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Boot Board

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 Swedlow: david@metastorming.com.

Existing Boot Boards

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
WiredReach
Email
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

Brian Massey

Company
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. 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
SPCI
Email
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
Blue Fish Development Group
Email
[1]
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
Trinsic Solutions
Email
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
Creative Bandwidth, LP
Email
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 [2]
  • Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [3]
  • 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
Egeria Design
Email
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

Mike O'Krent

Company
LifeStories Alive
Email
[4]
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
Cedar Key Ventures, LLC
Email
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
  1. Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.
  2. Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.
  3. 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
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
Performance Capital
Email
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
Champions Edge
Email
stan@champions-edge.com
Phone
512-289-0604
Company Size
2 founders
Stage
(Valley of Death)
Location
Lake Travis
Interested Categories
  1. Retention and referral development
  2. Web business development and operations assistance
  3. 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
Executive Intelligent Coaching
Email
[5]
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
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
Soverex
Email
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
TESTCo
Email
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


Corliss McGinty, SPHR

Company
Soft Solutions Consulting
Email
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
ThinkFirst, LLC
Product
MyHomePoint.com: Family-oriented scheduling and organization.
Email
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

Company
Enterprise Teaming, llc
Email
[6]
Phone
+1.512.698.9328
Company Size
2+contractors
Stage
Valley of Death, Baby!
Location
Austin, Texas (north Austin, Spicewood Springs/Mesa)
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


YOUR_NAME_HERE

Company
YOUR_COMPANY
Email
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Phone
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Company Size
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Stage
YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)
Location
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Interested Categories
  • YOUR_INTEREST_1
  • YOUR_INTEREST_2
  • ETC.
Other Information
  • YOUR_OTHER_INFO
  • ETC.



YOUR_NAME_HERE

Company
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Email
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Phone
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Company Size
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Stage
YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)
Location
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Interested Categories
  • YOUR_INTEREST_1
  • YOUR_INTEREST_2
  • ETC.
Other Information
  • YOUR_OTHER_INFO
  • ETC.


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