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Stewarding entrepreneur journeys. ATXentScene map: https://t.co/QP1eJ7dajB
Austin, TX
Joined January 2008
Insightful interview w @toddcoerver. Insights: maintain the core while scaling during the transition from founder-led to CEO + founder; company is a tribe:
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RT @bijoy: The power of constraints: How Dr. Seuss used only 50 words to write his best-selling book of all time
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Often we attempt to escape the constraints around us, try to “think outside the box” and procrastinate on taking action.
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RT @SiliconHillsNew: The Evolution of Austin Tech: A Conversation Between Two Pioneer Entrepreneurs
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In a candid conversation during Austin Startup Week, two of the city’s most influential tech entrepreneurs—Joshua Baer, co-founder of Capital Factory, and Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of data.world—...
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How we built our bootstrapped startup different and sold it for $40M. (Hint: We ignored some myths) - FORTUNE
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Startup mythology is extremely compelling—Zuck! Musk! Gates!—but it doesn’t do entrepreneurs any favors.
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Demo/Sell/Build, Constraint Creates Innovation and many other bootstrap principles.
This week on #HowIBuiltThis, hear how @PaigeMycoskie grew @AviatorNation into a multi-million dollar brand - that still makes all its clothes in California.
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Steve Jobs throws some well-deserved shade at the DOS UI during a NeXTSTEP demo (cued up):
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RT @LaunchPadUT: Join us, @DellTech & @LaunchPadUT on 6/29 for the Austin Startup Ecosystem Summit celebrating Austin’s vibrant entrepreneu….
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Insightful interview with @sfrancisatx on the ATC Podcast hosted by @thomsinger. Scott bootstrapped @bp3global and provides many nuggets of wisdom for founders, including interrogating & developing your startup mental models and gathering them through the companies you work in.
This week’s “Austin Tech Connect” is an interesting chat with @sfrancisatx - CEO at BP3. Don’t miss an episode of the @ATCouncil podcast. #austin #austintech #austintechnology #atx #austintx
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The Bootstrap Film Fest was held on June 26, 2008. Here's the conversation with the filmmakers on the BootRap Podcast:
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Bootstrap held its first Bootstrap Film Fest on June 26, 2008 (pictures on facebook). Five films by Bootstrap Film members were featured: Little Dove, Open House, Snake Pit, Art Erotica and Mystic...
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Fantastic documentary on Douglas Engelbart, the 20th century father of bootstrapping and modern computing.
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Founders aren't all-knowing gods and it is bad for everyone, including them, to create a false mythology of their infallibility. Entrepreneurship is a process, conducted by TEAMS.
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They rode their unicorns to fame and fortune. In a rocky market, it got a little less fun.
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The Great Neal Kocurek was the first ever speaker at Bootstrap Austin, way back in 2003. Thank you, Neal, for sharing your wisdom ❤️
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Maven, Relater or Evangelist? Discover your core energy and that of your cofounder/startup team:
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and by "new" we mean "old." Slackpreneurs have been around forever; they just haven't gotten around to telling you about themselves. They abide. 😉.
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We have a new entrepreneurial type - the slackpreneur - a subset of journey entrepreneurs and on the opposite end of the funded entrepreneurs:
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When funded-entrepreneurship goes terribly wrong and becomes pure grift. Watch this 2015 Stanford interview with the Theranos founder with @theDropoutHulu Series.
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Why, yes, yes we do! #constraintcreatesinnovation.
In a era where 0$ revenue making companies raising 10s of millions - it’s nice to see Tope Awotona, Calendly founder brave war zones & risk his own resources to bootstrap his company. I’d bet @bootstrapaustin would like this one.
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This eve, 7-9pm at @CapitalFactory.
Come join us tomorrow at the Cofounder Austin Meetup keynote speaker Bijoy Goswami @bijoy @bootstrapaustin #event via @TheTechMap.
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