Boot Rap: The voice of the Bootstrap Network
Audio programs designed for Bootstrap Entrepreneurs presented by the Bootstrap Network at www.bootstrapnetwork.com. The Bootrap is edited by Sound Quality at http://www.soundqualityinc.com
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.
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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.
Web 2.0 Business Models
The Bootstrap Web subgroup continued its discussion of Web 2.0 focusing more on business models than specific technologies. We discussed how the interactive character of the Internet feeds into the Web 2.0 “Architecture of Particpation.” How much of the web is inherently free or commodity, and what business models and tech innovations will prove lucrative?