Current Event
At Bootstrap Maryland's third event you will learn today's lean techniques for building your business:
Things are different in 2010: it's easy to build a prototype, but much harder to turn that into something customers will pay for. It's possible to pay your way to fame, but money is much harder to come by.
Throughout the day, you'll hear from experienced entrepreneurs who have navigated their way to success by responding to the market and their customers. We'll have a wide variety of panelists and speakers to share what did (or didn't) work for them and discuss the latest techniques for keeping your business in the black today.
| Aligning Your Business With Your Customers | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| TBD | Keynote: Aaron Dragushan |
| TBD | Generating serious buzz on a budget |
| TBD | Lunch |
| TBD | Workshop and excercises in small groups Organized by Tim Grahl |
| TBD | Ignite Talk |
| TBD | Applying Lean Startup Principles to Customer Learning (i.e., responding to your customers to build the best and most profitable application) |
| TBD | Hiring on the cheap and outsourcing |
| TBD | Closing Remarks |
Past Event
| What You Need to Know About Money for Your Startup in 2009 |
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 Pillsbury Law, 2300 N St, NW, Washington DC |
| Networking and hors d'oeuvres |
| Panel Discussion |
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Things are different today: it cost less to build a startup, but venture funding is harder to come by. It's possible to accomplish "ramen profitability", but it's challenging to achieve hockey-stick growth. Learn from two skilled entrepreneurs who have invested their own money, taken outside funding, and had opportunities to sell in more than one business. To keep the talk relevant and offer more nuanced perspective, a venture capitalist and attorney, both with experience working with hundreds of startups, will round out the panel. Be prepared to learn what you really need in terms of funding or financing.and also how to structure your business so that, should you change your mind, you'll still have a business. Panelists:
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| Networking |
| Bootstrap Maryland's Inaugural Conference |
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Saturday, May 2, 2009 University of Maryland College Park, MD |
| Opening remarks |
| What you need (and don't need) to get a technology business started Confirmed Panelists: Greg Cangialosi, Scott Harris, Haroon Mokhtarzada, Paul Singh (moderated by Jared Goralnick) |
| How to market inexpensively with social media, events, and creative public relations Confirmed Panelists: Aaron Brazell, Peter Corbett, Frank Gruber, Kaitlyn Wilkins (moderated by Mario Armstrong) |
| Workshop and exercises in small groups Organized by Tim Grahl |
| Getting your technology right...and what people are using to develop today Confirmed Panelists: M. Jackson Wilkinson, Mike Subelsky, Amy Senger, Andrew Turner (moderated by David Troy) |
| Introductions to local groups and events |
| Success stories and lessons learned Confirmed Panelists: Matthias Broecheler, Martin Ringlein, David Troy (moderated by Jared Goralnick) |
Signature Sponsors |
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Startup Sponsors |
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