Inhouse Assist Founders

Bijoy interviews InHouse Assist cofounders Dan Gutknecht, Jay Long and David Payne on their one-year anniversary. The founders followed Bootstrap principles - MRE, Demo/Sell/Build, etc. - and successfully crossed the Valley of Death in 1 year.

LinkedIn.com in the Job Search

How can LinkedIn.com be used in a job search? Brian Massey leads the discussion at the Lauchpad Job Club of October 13, 2006. The Launchpad Job Club is a resource for job hunters in Austin, Texas.

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View Brian’s profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/bmassey
Brian blogs at http://customerchaos.blogspot.com

Bootstrapper Personality

The MBTI is a tool that faciliates our work as entrepeneurs and our working with people, through increasing our awareness and understanding of ourselves and others, regarding our personality preferences. This presentation was made to the Bootstrap Austin group.

Nancy Schill, M.A. started Executive Intelligent Coaching after working as a Specialist in School Psychology for more than 7 years and finding her passion for enhancing work culture and improving your experience in the work environment. Nancy’s introduction provides an explanation of the 4 dichotomies, hallmark desciptions of some of the 16 personality types, and the MBTI Step II.

Jeff Johannigman is the founder and owner of People Type Consulting, an Austin-based firm that helps companies improve their leadership and teamwork, and individuals find greater career success and fulfillment. Jeff has been using the MBTI in his work for over 12 years.

Bruce Krysiak on Mavens

Bijoy interviews Bruce Krysiak, cofounder of Aviri and Maven extraordinaire. Bruce discusses how Mavens deepen their capabilities, evolving from one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many modes. Bruce describes the Maven’s lead role in the Ideation process and how Evangelists and Mavens dance together to create the key output of Ideation: the Demo.

Steven Tomlinson

Steven Tomlinson can teach. Just ask the University of Texas’s Ex-Students’ Association, which awarded him the prestigious Texas Excellence Teaching Award—or the former UT MBA students who voted him “Outstanding Core Faculty in the MBA Program” three times. He is currently a Master Teacher for The Acton MBA.

Credentials:

Formerly a top ranked economics and finance professor in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas

Designed and directed the McCombs Plus Program;directed the MBA Professional Development at UT

Ph.D.,economics, Stanford University; BA, with honors, University of Oklahoma

Tomlinson is also an adjunct professor of pastoral ministry at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, where he teaches an economics seminar for divinity students and a popular elective, Money as Metaphor, that explores the spirituality of economic life.