Sean Mountcastle has posted his notes from the recent Business for Geeks tutorial at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. The talk was given by Marc Hedlund, O’Reilly’s entrepreneur in residence. Marc appeared to really push the microISV concept of starting small, keeping your day job, and bootstrapping but that only scratches the surface of the things he touched on.
If anyone else attended, I’d be interested in hearing your experiences in the comments.
Sean Mountcastle has posted his notes from the recent Business for Geeks tutorial at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. The talk was given by Marc Hedlund, O’Reilly’s entrepreneur in residence. Marc appeared to really push the microISV concept of starting small, keeping your day job, and bootstrapping but that only scratches the surface of the things he touched on.
If anyone else attended, I’d be interested in hearing your experiences in the comments.
Thanks for the link. I tried to position the talk for anyone pursuing an entrepreneurial effort — “intrapreneurial” projects in a larger company, MicroISVs, bootstraps, or venture funded companies. I think a lot of the same lessons apply. I probably spent 1/4 of the time talking about venture funding (since I’ve spent a lot of time trying to raise it and feel like I have something to teach on that front), but I also spent a while on each of the other models.
I hope it was a useful talk for everyone who attended.
Regards,
Marc
August 6th, 2005 at 12:43 am
Thanks for the link. I tried to position the talk for anyone pursuing an entrepreneurial effort — “intrapreneurial” projects in a larger company, MicroISVs, bootstraps, or venture funded companies. I think a lot of the same lessons apply. I probably spent 1/4 of the time talking about venture funding (since I’ve spent a lot of time trying to raise it and feel like I have something to teach on that front), but I also spent a while on each of the other models.
I hope it was a useful talk for everyone who attended.
Regards,
Marc