Board Formation Process

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Here are the steps to joining a Board:

  1. Send David Swedlow an email with the following information
  2. Meet with the liaison from a prospective board or others who might form a new board with you
  3. Pick a Boot Board Facilitator
  4. Start your Board!

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


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 [1]
  • Co-Founder (with Karen Sopko): Cedar Key Ventures [2]
  • 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



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

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.


Michael Wilson

Company
Small World Labs


Email
[mwilson AT smallworldlabs.com]
Phone
512-499-0018
Company Size
7
Stage
Valley of Death
Location
Central/South Austin
Interested Categories
  • Marketing
  • Sales
  • Strategy
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, currently in Beta with several hundred users.
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

see my profile link at User:kkoym

Company
Enterprise Teaming, llc
Email
[3]
Phone
+1.512.698.9328
Company Size
2+contractors
Stage
Valley of Death, Baby!
Location
Presently users using our application and process in the US, Mexico, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, India.
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


Rick Davis

Company
The Pelegrine Group, L.L.C.
Email
[4]
Phone
512-419-7785
Company Size
YOUR_SIZE
Stage
YOUR_STAGE (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)
Location
YOUR_LOCATION
Interested Categories
  • YOUR_INTEREST_1
  • YOUR_INTEREST_2
  • ETC.
Other Information
  • YOUR_OTHER_INFO
  • ETC.


Ben Bartell

Company
Seattle's Best Coffee
Email
[5]
Phone
512-565-4693
Company Size
120
Stage
Growth (Ideation, Valley of Death, or Growth)
Location
Austin
Interested Categories
  • Mentorship
  • Team Building
  • Management Accountability


Other Information
  • Originally from Seattle, WA
  • Interested in helping any interested parties in getting out of the Valley of Death.
  • Strengthfinder top 5: Strategic, Acheiver, Relator, Learner, Woo


Eric L. Burt

Company
Memberize!
Email
eburt@memberize.com
Phone
512-536-1409 x107
Company Size
~100 clients
Stage
Growth
Location
Austin
Interested Categories
  • Web 2.0
  • Hosted Application Services
  • Marketing, Marketing Channels
  • SEO
Other Information
  • Originally from El Paso
  • University of Texas alum that recently relocated to Austin

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