Boot Board (Austin)

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Boot Board: not CEO Roundtables!

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 David Swedlow: david@metastorming.com.

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
Stage
Valley of Death
Location
Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas
Interested Categories
  • User Centric Web - P2P/Social Software
  • Collaborative 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


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 will be if I hire 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 business since 1995
  • Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) and 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
Other Information
  • YOUR_OTHER_INFO
  • ETC.


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

YOUR_NAME_HERE

Michelle Ewalt

Company
http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition
Email
mewalt@teamintransition.com
Phone
512.762.8568
Company Size
1 person
Stage
Growth
 Location: Client locations: Austin, Surroundings areas, 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.

  • ETC.
Other Information
  • Pulse point on Team in Transition: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.
  • Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to manage resources for clients while achieving long standing change.
  • Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations.
  • Leadership change management writer for NSIDE Magazine.
  • Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.
  • Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.
  • ETC.


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