Ideation Subgroup

• Ideation Yahoo Discussion Forum - please join to get meeting updates and connect with other Austin Ideation Bootstrappers. If you are not a fulltime bootstrapper, you must be on this yahoo group to get general bootstrap meetings and updates.

Leads

• Jeff Hotz
• Marcy Hoen

The Ideation Phase Image by Marilyn Martin

Meetings

The Ideation Group meets every third Monday of the month. Check the Bootstrap Austin Calendar and the links below for details.

• Feb 19 - intro meeting to kick off the year
• March 19 - Evite - Gregg Fraley, author Jack's Notebook teaches CPS
• Apr 16 - view and discuss the Ideation section of the Bootstrap Bootcamp
• May 21 - play a creativity game and view and discuss the Ideation section of the Bootstrap Bootcamp
• Jun 18
• Jul 16
• Aug 20
• Sep 17
• Oct 15
• Nov 19
• Dec 17

Mission & Charter

Ideation Group Mission Statement

To meet once every 6-8 weeks and provide nascent entrepreneurs an interactive forum with “Valley of Death” survivors so that they may develop awareness of an array of entrepreneurial skills and devices that allowed exciting new companies, services, and technologies to beat the odds and compete in the marketplace with a minimum of capital infusion.

Meetings themes will include (among others):

• Salient differences and benefits of bootstrapped and venture financed companies
• What to expect in the Valley of Death and preparing yourself to survive it
• The Supreme importance of Faith in “yourself and your cause”
• The use of Myers/Briggs psychological to determine whether you and your team have the psyche for the job ahead
• Group discussions and answers to member defined problems

While meetings will occasionally include special guest speakers, the goal for the Ideation Group is to function as a support group that encourages and assists entrepreneurs in-the-making with experienced counsel and opportunities to seek out mentors from a pool of individuals who have been there and done that!

Co-Chairmen Michael Wilson, Founder & CEO, Small World Labs, Austin, TX
L. Pierre de Rochemont, Founder & General Manager, Composite Ceramic Technologies, LLC, Founder & Chairman, GigaCircuits, Inc.
Andrea Bogado, Malleret Designs

Related Initiatives

• Demo Camp
• Boot Board
• Setting Up the Business

2006 Events

• Diane Carroll of the Maverick Group gave a talk titled "Top 5 strategies entrepreneurs can use to wrap their business around their lives"
  

Evite

• Personality
• Bootstrap Bootcamp: A 1-day course preparing entrepreneurs, intrapreneuers and innovators in any field
• Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship

Subgroups by Stage
Ideation, Valley of Death, Growth