VOD1 Boot Board
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Diversity/Valley of Death BOOT BOARD
Mission Statement
The Diversity/VoD bootboard's mission is short term. We want to grow quickly enough to split into two or more better focused groups. The primary interests expressed by the attendees of our first meeting was in having a diverse group and in helping one another get through the Valley of Death. Although Diversity is a good thing, it's hard to have a cohesive group if that's all we have in common.
- Interested Categories
- Valley of Death bootstrappers
- Diversity bootstrappers
- additional bootstrappers interested in joining the Boot Board
- Next meeting
- May 15, 2006 from 4-7 PM at
Austin Office Space 3415 Greystone Dr. #102
(Thanks to Chad Jewel for the meeting location)
- Paricipants at formation meeting in late April
- Nancy Schill
- Chris Garrigues
- Jeff Bowman
- Andrea
- Ash
- Mike O'Krent
Please note that we are looking to grow this group and will likely split into a "Diversity" group and a "Valley of Death" group, both of which will have a better focus than the current group.
Facilitators
Michelle Ewalt
- Company
- http://www.teamintransition.com, Team in Transition
- mewalt@teamintransition.com
- Phone
- 512.762.8568
- Company Size
- 1 person
- Stage
- Growth
- Client locations
- Austin, San Antonio, surrounding areas, Miami/out of state
- Interested Categories
- Utilizing brainstorming team's personal power to leverage future results.
- Grow Boot Board, lead the way for other groups to develop, and synergistic change management.
- Transformational change
- Other Information
- Team in Transition Base Model: Organizational leadership background: utilized Corporate experience and athletic coaching experience to launch Team in Transition.
- Holistic coaching and consulting practice: designed to help clients to manage resources while achieving long standing change.
- Client focus: leadership development and change management.
- Creator of local coaching programs for not for profit organizations: Team Survivor & Team in Training.
- NSIDE Magazine: Leadership change management writer
- Affiliations & Certifications referenced on web page and other marketing materials.
- Passionate leader with grassroots approach to helping people.
- Corporate experience: Arthur Andersen & CO, S.C., Capitol Hill/D.C., Motorola, Applied Materials, Drake Beam Morin
Stan Tyler
- Company
- Champions Edge
- stan@champions-edge.com
- Phone
- 512-289-0604
- Company Size
- 2 founders
- Stage
- (Valley of Death)
- Location
- Lake Travis
- Interested Categories
- Retention and referral development
- Web business development and operations assistance
- Contract relationship design and management - associates
- Other Information
- Professional coaching in business, life and the mental side of golf
- Learning from our granddaughters
- Rowing
- Being a disturbing element to UT fans esp. during OU winning years
Members
[Sorted alphabetically by last name]
Chris Garrigues
- Company
- Trinsic Solutions
- Phone
- 512-322-0180
- Company Size
- Myself and a few contractors
- Stage
- Late Valley of Death (I'm actually not losing money, but would be if I hired staff too soon)
- Location
- Central Austin (14th and West)
- Interested Categories
- B2B Marketing
- Customer Satisfaction & Retention
- Managing growth
- Relationship-based businesses
- Other Information
- Founded Trinsic Solutions in late 2003; My 3rd bootstrapped business since 1995
- Most of my career has been in IT management both for large companies (Dell, Schlumbeger, MCC, etc) as well as in my own startups.
- Hoped initially to grow fast and almost died in my first year; laid off staff and am now managing the slower pace well.
- I am a Maven with strong Relater tendencies and believe that my company should be a relater business with an underlying maven core.
Ash Maurya
- Company
- WiredReach
- ash@wiredreach.com
- Phone
- 214.914.8658
- Company Size
- 5 people + contractors [both offshore and local]
- Stage
- Late Valley of Death
- Location
- Central Austin - Recently relocated from Dallas
- Interested Categories
- User Centric Web - Decentralization/P2P/Social Software
- Collaboration Technology
- Starting Up
- Other Information
- New to Austin
- Company founded and bootstrapped since 2002
- weblog: http://www.wiredjournal.com
Mike O'Krent
- Company
- LifeStories Alive
- [1]
- Phone
- 512-431-8166
- Company Size
- 1 full time! (other subcontractors - videographers, producer, editor)
- Stage
- Valley of Death
- Location
- Round Rock
- Interested Categories
- Baby boomer target marketing
- Personal Historian
- Starting up
Tonja O'Neill
- Company
- Soverex
- tonja@soverex.com
- Phone
- 512-257-2185
- Company Size
- Small
- Stage
- Valley of Death
- Location
- Northwest Austin
- Interested Categories
- Management Consulting / Lifestyle Business
- Software / High-Tech Industry
- Crisis Management
Nancy Schill
- Company
- Executive Intelligent Coaching
- [2]
- Phone
- 512-947-5447
- Company Size
- 1 person
- Stage
- Valley of Death
- Location
- Austin
- Interested Categories
- B2B marketing
- sales techniques
- sole proprietership business support
- valley of death strategies
- Other Information
- Founder and Executive Coach
- B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in School Psychology - (Specialist level 3 yr. grad. degree)
- extensive experience in behavior change, assessments (qualified to administer all assessments, unlike other coaches), goal development and attainment, working with and understanding people of all types.
- working with professionals and executives on:
- professional growth strategy
- strengthening leadership and exemplary leadership practices
- emotional intelligence skills improvement
- strengths development
- organization and client communication
- prioritizing demands for greater productivity
- balancing priorities of work and personal life