VOD1 Boot Board

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Mission Statement

The Diversity/VoD bootboard's mission is helping one another get through the Valley of Death. Diversity is a good thing, but we use it, rather than focus on it.

Facilitator

Jeff Hotz

Meetings

Members

[Sorted alphabetically by last name]

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.

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
[1]
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

Nancy Schill

Company
Executive Intelligent Coaching
Email
[2]
Blog
[3]http://eicoachingblog.blogspot.com
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
    • improving team functioning

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

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