VOD1 Boot Board

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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 Garrigues, 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


Facilitators

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

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


Members

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.

Nancy Schill

Company
Executive Intelligent Coaching
Email
[1]
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

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


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

Mike O'Krent

Company
LifeStories Alive
Email
[2]
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
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
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