Bootstrapping Event In San Francisco - Get The Last Five Tickets Here

February 11th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

I’d like to go, but i can’t attend. can they record?

February 12th, 2008 at 12:05 am

As a serial entrepreneur from Europe, building a business now in the Valley with bootstrapping model, I think I could contribute to the discussion the global perspective and insights on doing marketing without a marketing budget.

February 12th, 2008 at 12:11 am

I’m a Stanford grad student (engineering masters now, and just got accepted to the b-school class of 2010). I hope to do startups after GSB, so I’m looking to learn as much as possible. What better than successful cases from the horse’s mouth?

February 12th, 2008 at 12:16 am

I can record and upload it online. I should get a ticket. Out of the panel, Craig Newmark is my personal hero. His lean mean web machine pumps out cash over fists and his altruistic charity work humbles me and puts what I work on day to day, and will do in the future, in constant perspective.

February 12th, 2008 at 12:20 am

Hi Michael,

This is a timely discussion for Animoto as we’re currently evaluating our financing options as our service gains popularity. We’d like to avoid going the VC route and could really benefit from some best practice advice from guys who’ve been able to do so. We’ve been bootstrapping the company since Aug 2006 – with some investment from friends and family – so I think I’ll also have a lot to add to the conversation.

Best,
Brad Jefferson
CEO & Co-founder
Animoto.com
Hi Michael,

This is a timely discussion for Animoto as we’re currently evaluating our options as our service gains popularity. We’d like to avoid going the VC route and could really benefit from some best practice advice from guys who’ve been able to do so. We’ve been bootstrapping the company since Aug 2006 – with some investment from friends and family – so I think I’ll also have a lot to add to the conversation.

Best,
Brad Jefferson
CEO & Co-founder
brad@animoto.com

February 12th, 2008 at 12:22 am

Hi Michael:

For the last three years, I have been running an online education company with a bootstrap budget. I have invested less than $1000 into my website, but have developed a business model that is now driving six-figures of revenue each year. In the next year I have plans to create an innovative learning platform–but I would like to do so without soliciting any outside funding from angels or Series A investments.

I’d love to get some advice on how to scale my offering massively on a tight budget. I’ll also be happy to contribute my story to the forum, on how I was able to build/run a six-figure revenue company with less than $2000 in costs each year.

Thanks for your consideration.

February 12th, 2008 at 12:28 am

Hi,

I work for a leading online digital marketing/design firm and it would be nice to see what new ideas are out there and maybe I can also provide some thoughts and input from a practical viewpoint to people who are looking for something like that.
Personally, I have no specific plan to start a start-up but I sure like to help people who do.

Thanks,
Ra

February 12th, 2008 at 12:33 am

I’d love to attend because I’ve got a software invention that I’ve been working on in my spare time, and I know it’s going to change the world. But I don’t know anything about startups, bootstrapped or not, and could use some advice. I’m in SoCal but I’d happily drive up to SF for this. Thanks.

February 12th, 2008 at 12:40 am

Hi Michael,

I’d like to go. Currently the head of a small ’starve-up’. Learned some tough lessons about bootstrapping with the last company I started (let’s just call it a dry run), and I would be interested in getting some insight from the members of the killer panel that has been set up.

I have found panel discussions like this one (with a small audience) to be the most beneficial. I can contribute my own perspective on bootstrapping, and why I have decided to take that avenue.

Plus, it would be great if someone from outside of the Valley (and CA) could attend. I’m in Portland, OR.

Just let me know, and I will book the ticket.

Thanks!

Andres

February 12th, 2008 at 12:45 am

Hi Michael, I started Sports Business Simulations with just $25,000 five years ago January 23rd. I’ve worked as CEO and have not had to take another job over that time. I started knowing zip about FML HTML, SEO, and the other alphabet soup Internet terms that I’m now an expert in. All I have done over this time is constantly learn, test, and apply code, and I’ve been able to try approaches that in a more bureaucratic setting would not see the light of day. During this path I’ve seen one major change: in myself. My self-esteem is better than it’s ever been and I’ve never been happier with myself. I would love to come to your event, and I have a lot to offer the proceedings.
Visit http://www.sbs-world.com

February 12th, 2008 at 12:53 am

Hi Mike,
I am a co-founder & CTO of a self-funded startup.

Company Name: Viralizr (Social collaboration apps on Facebook & Open Social).

First Application: Listmania - http://apps.facebook.com/socialtopten - its an app for creating and discovering all kinds of interesting lists (top ten lists, best/worst lists etc.)
More apps for Facebook and other social networks in development.

Status: Few months old. Self funded. Looking to continue that for as long as we can. Would love to hear from other people who have done this successfully.

Thanks,
Srinivas Narayanan

February 12th, 2008 at 1:28 am

I am a co-founder of a start-up and we’ve been running on our own cash up till now. We’ve signed a few big partners in this space already and we really need the knowledge of how we can get to the next step without giving too much of our equity away (outside funding). We’re still in stealth-mode so I can’t really publicly tell everyone what it is, but I can say that our product will revolutionize Hollywood and the way movies are made.

I would also love to meet people in the same boat as me and see if I can help them with anything that I’ve run into ever since I started my company with my friends.

–Steve

February 12th, 2008 at 1:34 am

You should pick me because I will be bootstrapping my own startup and I don’t want to spend it all on development costs! Have to save some room for advertising on Techcrunch!

February 12th, 2008 at 1:46 am

Mike,
I’m 23, french, living in Paris and landing in SF for 6 month on the 27th Feb.
Founded a start-up 2 years ago and ATM working on a new project for september 08.
I’ll be in SF to meet people and attend that kind of event.
I might not be the big reader you expect yet out of the five you’ll pick if you want to give a hand to a third-world worker think about me It’ll be truly helpful to me.
Thanks,
Simon

P.S : I still can bring you a special bottle of wine from Paris, think about it !

February 12th, 2008 at 2:22 am

Michael Arrington,

A lot of these posts are filled with entrepreneurs who have companies of their own and have good reasons to attend this event. I’d like to add a personal appeal to my own bid for two of these tickets.

Yes, I said two tickets. I don’t call myself the “CEO” and I don’t wear a business suit everywhere I go; I don’t have enough money to incorporate my business so the title would be a farse anyway, and business suits also are sort of, not quite a priority in terms of spending these days. I’m not really even a programmer — I’m a journalist. I’m 27 and I didn’t even have the $15k in lifesavings that other people had. My family doesn’t have money either. My seed money was about $1,500. I’ve been hustling with that seed money since September.

And Valentine’s Day weekend is coming up. That was the weekend that I was supposed to take a break from what my girlfriend calls “my other girlfriend” — my news site LateUpdate.com. Notice, it’s LateUpdate.com and not weebuu or zilhouette or trunky (if I accidentally named a real company out there — my apologies! I’m sure you have a good reason for that one!).

But I couldn’t take her this weekend because there are a lot of other things that money must be spent on — food, shelter, warmth. My girlfriend understands, although it’s pretty amazing considering that her mother is a diplomat and her past boyfriends were, as they say, paid.

No, I’m bootstrapping it, and in a major way. My company is a kernel of an idea right now, a news Web site with some interesting features and backed by a guy (me) who thinks that the content and a new model for an open news process will ultimately grow on its own momentum. Yet, through my keen bootstrapping skills I have managed to build a company with multiple phone lines, a multi-faceted data-driven Web site, newsletters and even a quarterly PDF newsletter — all using open source software or super-cheap software, a DSL connection and a desktop computer. Oh yeah and a lot of will power, which thankfully doesn’t cost a dime.

So I think I have already come well along in understanding what it’s like to bootstrap as a company. I’m finding my way onto the radio news here in the Central Valley, I was selected as a top business professional in the community, and I was given an entrepreneur scholarship. All of these things were ways to get exposure without paying for anything — other than my personal life and cable television (Veoh and Joost are pretty good, free, alternatives though. Also Chime.tv).

Well, Valentine’s Day, as I mentioned, is fast arriving, and my girlfriend, a business major taking entrepreneurship studies at Fresno State who was born in Paris and travels often, seems to have taken it in stride that we can’t go there. But I promised her someday, we’d make it to her favorite city in the world: San Francisco.

I thought it would be months (well…) before I could get out to San Francisco.

But then I saw your post. I’m writing this to ask you to do me a really big solid, Michael (tip #4 for bootstrappers: Ask for the favor; all he can do is say no). I’m asking you to hook me and my girl up with a couple tickets to this event. It would be a great way to get to SF and there would be three ways I can really benefit from it:
- Classify it as a business trip (deductable)
- Spend time in SF with my girlfriend
- Learn how to save money for my very well-received, very underfunded venture

Your readers, but especially my readers, would benefit from it in these ways:
- I could offer tips to people there on how I have survived with little to no funds
- I will liveblog to my site (http://lateupdate.com) and post video and information of the event to my readers, many of whom are would-be start-ups in the Lyles Center for Innovation at Fresno State
- We can do a link trade — a link to techcrunch on my homepage, and a link to LateUpdate.com on your homepage! Just kidding, I’m not delusional.

The last tip I’ll offer about bootstrapping is this: Find opportunities to combine opportunities so you can get more out of your time. If you offered me two tickets, not only would I learn a lot, my entrepreneurial girlfriend (planning a boutique) would learn a lot, and hopefully both of our readers would learn a lot. AND, I’d be able to take my girlfriend to SF too and make up for missing Valentine’s Day with a real big score.

I wouldn’t ask for this if I didn’t think I could combine a lot of great things into one opportunity like this. I really don’t have time to leave my company right now unless it was for something like this, and even then, I would have to stay at my uncle’s in Fremont just to make it.

Thanks for considering it.

February 12th, 2008 at 2:42 am

SOCIAL IMPACT in the US Latino community is our business that includes the use of broad scope media integrated with grassroots marketing and web 2.0 strategies. I believe the event will be a great Learning Experience , Networking opportunity and I would be honored to attend. Your forward consideration is appreciated.

February 12th, 2008 at 3:07 am

It’s interesting))

February 12th, 2008 at 3:23 am

Hello Michael,

I would love to come.

As a non-technical founder, self funding my vision, I have tons of insight on what to do, and what not to do. I’ve had more trial and (mostly) error than any man should face, but I think I have found one answer:

Do whatever you can to do it all in house, Don’t outsource.

Another insight: It will cost you twice as much, and take twice as long as any “worst case scenario” estimate. Then double, and double again, and you are guaranteed to come up just short of what you need.

I would love to learn, commiserate and share my experience with others that are on the same journey, or contemplating the same investment of time, energy, sanity, and every last dollar they have to see their vision executed.

Another tip: You have to deeply love and care about your idea. It’s very hard, and the road to see it developed is long with deadly curves. An interesting concept won’t cut it, it takes guts to pull the trigger and risk it all. Then, long hours, drive, and a stomach for the inevitable pitfalls.

Some Bootstrapping insights: Sub-Leasing Space. Outsourcing around the world, around the country, around town and in the office. Building a top-notch team. Selling them on the vision, and getting them to buy in to the idea. Postponing some of their salary as bonus and incentives to hitting milestones. Getting the most out of the team you have when you’re shorthanded. What you shouldn’t skimp on, legal (but can probably postpone paying for if you ask.) Furnishing your entire office from Craigslist. Opensource (obvious). Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

I’ve included my email. Thank you.

February 12th, 2008 at 4:17 am

Hi Michael,

Rahul here - I am a student of Computer Science - I came here to the valley about 1.5 years ago - after i got over the jet lag, I got down to work - trying to learn from whoever has something genuine to offer and trying to relate that to my own experiences as a student (who spent 4 years for BS) in India - in Jan 07 I thought of an idea to solve a long standing problem at colleges in India (skipping the details) - i set up a dev team of my pals from undergrad - one guy at Cornell, another one at EPFL, Switzerland, and the 4th guy at Pune, India. Together the 4 of us, set out to make this web based product - working in 4 different time zones and set the ball rolling with the v1.0 out toward the middle of Feb 07 - bootstrapped the whole time - we worked hard on marketing and got a lot of attention and press - we were acquired in June 07 - 6 months from the initial idea! (www.rakoFi.com)

In Jan 08 - one of our facebook apps was in the top 20 as far as the DAUs are concerned, and we are still in the top 100 with close to 4 million users.

We are soon coming out with our next product targeted at the consumer internet market - and I am still to graduate from grad school - and my buddies are still with me - and its been a helluva ride - managing school, research and startups and girl friends - but we are loving every second of it.

I want to soak in as much as i can from people who have made it big, i want to learn from them and perhaps share my knowledge with students/entrepreneurs back home…

I am an MS CS student at Stanford - though that is just my day job…

Rahul

February 12th, 2008 at 5:37 am

Over the past 8 months I have been working on a new startup . I have no vc money, no board members, and still keep my corporate day job. I will be launching in private beta on March 5th and will be in the bay area visiting with my programmers during that week. Having the opportunity to learn how to maximize your returns with limited funds would greatly help me launch my website successfully.

Plus you should choose me since I literally go to tech crunch 10 times a day. Surprised my employer has not blocked this site yet.

February 12th, 2008 at 7:24 am

I am the head of business development and North American operations for an Irish start up that we are growing via the bootstrap model. We have focused on building our business using partnership as we do not have the funds available to grow a direct sales model. Our solution is an on-line survey and lead acquisition solution that allows the user to define the survey/form in one place but to deploy via html, email, Flash or on mobile devices. We currently have partnerships with Epsilon, ExactTarget, Salesforce and Epicor among others. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to come and participate in the event.
Jon Erickson

February 12th, 2008 at 7:45 am

if you can throw in a flight ticket from the uk to the event and oh a place to stay then Ill volunteer. I don’t mind crashing in one of your cushty pads.

Seriously can’t believe your making people beg for these tickets. Next time can we have some respect for your readers and just have a ballot out of all those whom are interested ?

it would be better than all these sad sacks and their pity stories .

February 12th, 2008 at 7:53 am

I would benefit immensely from attending this event. There is no better way to learn than to hear from the people who went through what your going through and became a success. I want to be inspired by the innovative and creative steps they took that led them from bootstrapping to the big time. I am bootstrapping my startup http://www.flingitgirl.com and getting ready to expand it to make my vision a reality. Attending the event would be priceless.

February 12th, 2008 at 8:36 am

Once a thriving exec in NYC, now a semi-broke and frequent couch resident, I’m probably putting wayyyyy to much on the line for my startup. While staying abreast of all TC news and other blogs, I’ve come to admire those startups who can do more with less (i.e. funding). Trying to do more with less would be ideal for my startup only if I had substantial tech experience which I don’t. Currently, I’m looking for hackers to help co-found this “lean & mean” dream of mine. Among many other necessities for my business, it would be truly appreciated to attend an INTIMATE event where the pros are accessible and the information shared is completely relevant.

FYI… I won’t post the description of my startup here, but I have no problem sharing it with you guys if needed. Still in infant stage!

Is it possible to throw in a plane ticket and/or accommodation (just kidding, but maybe not)??? If all else fails, PLEASE share the entire video online.

All the Best Michael!

Jason

February 12th, 2008 at 9:03 am

Mike,

All I ask is to cover one of these startups, one of these days:

http://www.meetingflex.com [ Social Networking + Video Search]
http://www.jhatak.com [ Internet Web Meeting]
http://www.jhatak.com/Buckler/BucklerHomePage.htm [ Tabbed Browser]

I wish all the best to all. One of these days..I expect to buy the tickets to the event.

Raj
Founder
http://www.jhatak.com/Buckler/BucklerHomePage.htm

February 12th, 2008 at 9:07 am

Hi,

It would be great if you can get it on video for us overseas (and anyone else who can’t be there) bootstrappers.

Ruti (Israel)

February 12th, 2008 at 9:17 am

I would to go. We bootstrapped our location-based platform startup too. Fon11 - a live photobook - shipped last week. A staff pick on Apple site, #1 Top 20 Rated iphone app on http://www.applesafari.com, #2 Social Networking on apple iphone site.

Other apps and API release coming soon.

I think I earned a chance to go.

February 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am

I would like a get-out-of-bootstrap-hell (which I am currently in) ticket please.

February 12th, 2008 at 9:42 am

Hi Adrian (#29),

I have bootstrapped my start-up since Feb of 2005 and it is doing very well, I would invest in your/a start-up if it was about reporting Good News. Too much of the content of News today is about Bad News (crime, death, war, etc.). How about an up-lifting site that only presents Good News (advances in Medicine, Nobel prize accomplishments, Baby Births, etc.)?

RAUL

February 12th, 2008 at 9:47 am

I’m a one man ship with outsourced development and design.

February 12th, 2008 at 10:09 am

Hi Michael,

We met just once a while back at the TechCrunch house, a Noah Kagan production I believe :-). Now I’m working on a startup called gOS, an operating system that uses Google and other web apps. Was exciting to be covered by TechCrunch a few times recently:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....t-for-200/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....re-headed/
http://www.crunchgear.com/2007.....n-your-pc/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....ocused-pc/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....gle-gears/

Recently have been determined to bootstrap our way into profitability without taking any outside money. Would love to attend and learn from some great entrepreneurs and people about how they did this with their startups. Thanks!

-David Liu
Founder of gOS

February 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am

I would love to attend! Here are my (obvious) reasons:

- I’m 25, french engineer working in the bay area since 3 years at Orb Networks

- After gaining experience there, I saw lots of the things to do / not do when you are developing consumer products and I fell like it’s time now to put my ideas out there

- I just asked for spare time to my boss to start my favorite idea, relying on Internet passivity

- I have no outside funding whatsoever

- I’ll be camping outside the building for the next month until I can get access inside

Thanks to consider my participation,

Alex Guion

February 12th, 2008 at 10:33 am

I started my company in 2001, the dark days of VC funding, raised $1.7M and made it last 6 years until a $19M acquisition by Akamai in 2007. If that’s not bootstrapping, I don’t know what is.

It would be fun to hear tales from the group and provide some good bootstrapping war-stories myself.

February 12th, 2008 at 10:36 am

Hi Michael,

I am a Software Engineer developing an online food coommunity with a customized menu and grocery list builder. The website is self-funded and is currently in Private BETA. We are planning to have the BETA released in a few months. I started developing the site and building the team about a year ago and we are now a team of 6. Some of us are in California and the rest in India.

We are currently exploring various business models and will focus on the business aspect after the BETA releases. This is our first experience and the insights from the discussion will surely be very helpful for us.

Thanks,
Avanti Ketkar

February 12th, 2008 at 10:44 am

Dear Michael,

My brother used to say that when he went to Las Vegas he could start with $100 and easily get to $1,000, but he could never get past that amount and eventually would lose the $100. It is well documented why the house always wins, but he thought he could up the ante a bit and go for it just once. So, he put all of his money ( a years savings from teaching English in Japan) on a single hand of blackjack.

This has basically been my bootstrap startup experience. Each startup eventually hits a wall for this reason or that. Except now I have the idea. The one that I am passionate about. The one that creeps back into your thoughts late a night. A friend and I have started some test cases using a variety of free web 2.0 software sites and are taking the next step into turning it into a company.

If I am invited to this seminar, I will put everything I learn to get this startup over that hump, so that it does not stall out.

And I can tell you how my brother’s blackjack escapade worked out….

thanks,

- Mike

February 12th, 2008 at 11:08 am

Gosh! - I don’t know if I can compete with all these stories but I am sure going to try. Here goes - I recently launched an online news source for elementary school kids, called http://www.dogonews.com. In addition to that I am also a “soccer” mom my two kids - (so talk about bootstrapping time and money).

I am hoping to create a website and add safe blogging, educational games etc. - but would like to self-fund it as I have no desire at this moment to accept any kind of funding - angel or institutional.

Hopefully you’ll consider this and give me that last ticket that your are holding on to for the ultimate bootstrapped start-up!

February 12th, 2008 at 11:10 am

Michael,

I’d love to attend and may have something to contribute.

I launched my site in 2000 using only (empty) hip pocket financing. It has continued to grow each year, never lost money and in ‘07 grossed 6 figures for the first time while providing all the perks you’d expect from a travel destination website since I personally shoot all photos on the site.

I had 30+ years in the graphic design field — packaging and corporate identity — and had introduced computer graphics at a large SF design firm in the early ’80s but had (and still have) very limited technical experience. I continue to teach a class on Macintosh graphics part time at CCSF.

Thanks for making the offer available and considering me for attendance.

Lee

February 12th, 2008 at 11:17 am

I am in the process of launching a new SaaS application that aims to transform how the hotel industry is managed and operated. We’ve been building the product for 2 1/2 years and have beta clients using it for the past 20 months. All of this has been done with creative ways of self financing.

We still have a long ways to go and always on the lookout for advice and inspiration for reaching our goals with as little outside money as possible. I think this event would be invaluable for me to attend. Please consider my request for the ticket.

February 12th, 2008 at 11:50 am

Dear Michael,

I have recently invented transparent metal and plan to build a fleet of see-thru submarines for tourists interested in ocean life. Think of the potential! I did all this with my life savings of $10K and my Amiga 1000. Would provide photos, but invisible things are rather hard to photograph. I don’t want the tickets, but would love to hear from you if you’re interested in a tour

JG

February 12th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

All I have done over this time is constantly learn, test, and apply code, and I’ve been able to try approaches that in a more bureaucratic setting would not see the light of day

February 12th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

Since 2004 when I started down the road of “my own business” bliss, I’ve been abused by multi-billion dollar companies, harassed by weak competition, held 3 different jobs, and managed to close some business - oh yeah, and I’m trying to raise capital and build out our team. I’m war torn and black and blue but wouldn’t trade it for the world. I’d love to be there to hear other stories and share some of my own.

February 12th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Dear Tom, (#78)

You’re an idiot.

Love,

John Galt

February 12th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

I would love to attend!

I have a full time job at a startup, working on a non-profit and working on a startup of my own. We are in the process of launching within 2-3 weeks and for now, the expense is manageable from our full time jobs. However, we plan to leave our jobs in around 3 months and would love to learn how we can go about bootstrapping our startup.

February 12th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Michael,

First of understanding that I need to stand out from the crowd and somehow get your attention from close to 100 comments already, allow me to post a little poem I wrote about TechCrunch:

Ok, here it goes, hopefully you’ll like it:

We began June eleventh two-thousand five
in order to help web consumer survive
We’ll continue to review and profile for you
the sites and products that you view.
The web is growing and there can’t be enough
So even when you eat launch go to TechCrunch.

Rely on us @ TechCrunch
to research and get the lowdown for you
We’re here to check tech stuff out
So that you’ll find things you’ve never heard about

Ok, now that I got your attention (hopefully let me briefly explain on why I would benefit from the event and hopefully have something to contribute.

I was the founder of a number of start-ups, most recently eNthem, HoldMyRecord.com and CrowdChess and two of these start-ups (eNthem and HoldMyRecord.com) were created with a goal of raising start-up capital for a bigger project because I did not have any money. I don’t have a lot of connections in the valley and thus don’t have easy access to VC’s and Angels there and so I always had to think outside the box, be creative and grow my business not depending on a thought of getting any outside funding. While working on those projects, I’ve learned a lot of great and valuable lessons as to what can and should be done when you are on a bootstrap budget, trying to start and grow your business. The fact is, there are a lot of great techniques freely available for you to use in order to spread the word out and grow your business, if you know them it makes your life as a bootstrapped start-up that much easier!

One advice I will give to all young and ambitious entrepreneurs out there is what Confucius once said: “The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step”.

I would also love to hear what guys like Craig Newmark, Gabe Rivera and you Michael have to say, as from what I know all three of you never raised any funding for your current operations (Craigslist, TechMeme and TechCrunch) and so it would be a tremendous opportunity from me to learn a lot of new stuff and soak as much info and knowledge as humanly possible.

Thank you for your consideration and hopefully I was able to flatter you with my little TechCrunch poem

Stan

February 12th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

If you are looking for someone bootstrapped to start the next big thing in “Social Ads” field, look no further than Hoodbook, Inc. A friend and I co-found this company. We worked part-time jobs to support ourselves, 3 off-shore engineers and a couple of temps in U.S.. After 9 months we are revenue generating, and are also in the process of opening our China branch to export our platform to China in partnership with one of China’s largest media company. I’d love to hear what other like-experienced entrepreneurs have to say, as well as share our experiences.

February 12th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

My partner and I are bootstrapping a startup targeted at the type of companies we work with in our day jobs. We keep hearing the same complaints over-and-over and are now building the answer.

Being based outside of a Startup Hub, it’d be great to come up and hear what others are doing and get a shot of inspiration.

Thanks!
.jonah

February 12th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

I recently launched a startup with a few friends. I would love to attend this event to gain insight on bootstrapping best practices, lessons learned, etc.
Also, the “Innovative ways of saving money for your company” topic sounds very promising.

February 13th, 2008 at 12:07 am

Hi,
Currently developing vary promising TAG-Cloud ad network for blogs.
I am pretty sure that people will love this.
I’ll be vary happy to attend to this event. I will learn a lot and I will share my experience that i got in web 2.0 world. We can also discuss some pretty good ideas that i have but NOT yet started to work on.

thanks for your time.

February 13th, 2008 at 1:19 am

One interesting quote.

Once a VC asked me , what experience you have for a startup.

My answer:

A startup is like a marriage…the less experience you have before hand the better.

February 13th, 2008 at 10:08 am

I have a boutique venture firm with a series of $10m funds from which each invests in approx. 20 very early stage opportunities in web, software and consumer markets. We have made over 50 investments since 1999. One of our key investment filters and critical success factors given the size of our fund is a highly capital efficient bizmodel and a leadership team focused on doing more with less. I’d love to attend this event to contribute any insight I can and learn best practices from other that I could take back to the benefit our entrepreneurs.