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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.
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The Venture Lifestyle Business
Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 02:47 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
“Some buildings need air conditioning because they have air conditioning.
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8 Tips for Evaluating Funding Alternatives
Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 00:03 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Many entrepreneurs planning their first software startup get stuck on funding and ownership issues. Here are some simple rules of thumb that may help you reframe an issue: Revenue, especially break even revenue, is never dilutive of your ownership. The right co-founders, while dilutive, substantially increase your chances of success: they give you a smaller piece of a much more valuable pie. Paying customers are real proof that there is demand for your product.
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Do Not Pay to Pitch Investors
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 - 01:32 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Jason Calcanis has gone a little bit off the dial on “why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors” but he is nonetheless correct. Our focus is helping bootstrapping technology startups but we do get startups at the Bootstrappers Breakfast who ask whether they should “pay to play” as well as those that have. I have yet to meet anyone in a startup who was happy with the outcome after paying a large fee to present. And by large I mean more than $100. There are a number of pitch preparation groups in Silicon Valley (eg.
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Prediction: Angel Investing Down in 2009
Posted on Friday, December 5, 2008 - 17:40 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I was still mulling over the implications of yesterday’s briefing by Nate Burgess when I came across “Prediction: Angel investing in 2009 will be up?” by Alexander Muse on the Texas Startup blog. Briefly his thesis is The angel investment market hovers around $12 billion each year.  I predict that the turmoil on Wall Street will actually improve the ability of startups to access investments from angels.  The logic is fairly simple, wealthy individual investors no longer trust Wall Street, but they still need to invest their capital.
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