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Signed up for Startup Lessons Learned Conference
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 14:10 by Theresa Shafer from the site SKMurphy
Hope to see you on Monday, May 23, 2011 in San Francisco, CA for the Second Startup Lessons Learned conference. The day-long event will feature a mix of panels and talks focused on the key challenges and issues that technical and market-facing people at startups need to understand in order to succeed in building successful startups.
Theresa Shafer
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Conversations Entrepreneurs Remember
Posted on Sunday, April 3, 2011 - 20:06 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
We had a great Bootstrapper Breakfast® in February in Milpitas with Isaac Garcia, CEO of Central Desktop, speaking very candidly about the challenges of Bootstrapping Central Desktop and some lessons learned. Bob Gerughty mentioned after the meeting that he had run into someone who remembered him from  a comment he made at a breakfast almost a year ago. Bob was a Treasurer and/or head of Taxation at Altera, NeoMagic, andP hoenix Technologie before he branched out to bootstrap his own firm.
Sean Murphy
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Video: Early Revenue For Enterprise Web Apps
Posted on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 01:44 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
This interactive webinar was for SaaS firms faced with an “enterprise sales” challenge by virtue of their minimum price point or number of job boundaries, business processes, or contractual relationships that  have to change to create value.
Sean Murphy
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Webinar Feb-24: “Early Revenue for Enterprise Web App Providers”
Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 22:55 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I have teamed up with DreamSimplicity to offer a free webinar on “Early Revenue for Enterprise Web App Providers” on Thursday Feb 24 at 8:30am PST Registration is at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/745026866 and a recording will be made available if you are unable to take part.
Sean Murphy
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Mapping the Path to Your First Dollar of Revenue – Handout
Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 08:35 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Here is the handout from this morning’s Bootstrapper Breakfast® in Walnut Creek. Mapping the Path to Your First Dollar of Revenue Sean Murphy, SKMurphy, Inc. Bootstrapper Breakfast Walnut Creek Jan 25, 2011 Entrepreneurs tend to focus on having a good idea, or on the challenges of developing a new product, or on finding co-founders to form a company. While all of these are important the most significant early milestone for a bootstrapper is making the first dollar of revenue from a customer willing to act as a reference.
Sean Murphy
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Great Demo! Webinar January 25, 2011 9:00am PST
Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 18:13 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Peter Cohan is giving a Great Demo webinar Tue-Jan-25-2011 at 9am PST.
Sean Murphy
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Isaac Garcia on “Bootstrapping Central Desktop” at Feb-11 BB in Milipitas
Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 19:51 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Isaac Garcia, co-founder and CEO of Central Desktop, will share “Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Central Desktop” at the Milpitas Bootstrappers Breakfast® on February 11, 2011 at 7:30am. Central Desktop delivers a SaaS collaboration platform that helps businesses manage projects and documents in the cloud with colleagues, customers and partners. Isaac Garcia (@isaacgarcia) oversees business strategy and sales for the company. Isaac’s talk will draw on his experience at both early-stage technology companies and in enterprise sales & marketing.
Sean Murphy
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Ogden Lily at Sunnyvale Bootstrappers Breakfast Tue-Jan-18
Posted on Monday, January 17, 2011 - 15:12 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Join other entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast®  7:30am to 9am at Coco’s in  Sunnyvale tomorrow. Ogden Lily from Boitano, Sargent and Lily, LLP is attending tomorrow’s Bootstrapper Breakfast®  to answer questions on accounting and tax issues for startups. Boitano, Sargent, and Lily has been serving Silicon Valley businesses for six decades, Ogden is a CPA with the firm. Issues that he will address include: moving your accounting into the cloud with Quickbooks on-line understanding the accounting implications of different corporate forms: LLC vs. C vs. Sub-S; CA vs.
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The Snow Lay Round About, Deep and Crisp and Even
Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2010 - 09:35 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
One of the things it took me a long time for me to get used to living in Silicon Valley was the lack of snow.  Not snow that you could visit in places like Tahoe but snow that visited you.  A few years have seen snow in the foothills but nothing like winter mornings in St. Louis where the landscape would be entirely transformed by snow and/or freezing rain. We have a week left in 2010. This is  a short post to collect some odds and ends on the day after Christmas, also known as  Feast of St.
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Get More Customers in 2011, Workshop Wed-Dec-8-2010
Posted on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 09:52 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
We are offering our “Getting More Customers” next Wednesday, December 8, at FortisGC in Redwood Shores. This will cover a variety of proven marketing techniques for growing your business in 2011: you will select one or two that fit your strengths and interests and leave with a 90 day implementation plan developed and critiqued in the workshop. Included in your workshop registration are four follow up phone calls at two weeks, four weeks, 8 weeks, and 13 weeks to help you track your progress.
Sean Murphy
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