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We've never met to my knowledge so I don't believe that you know me. I am an entrepreneur and enjoy conversations with other entrepreneurs. I had a photography
by skmurphy 17y ago
We've never met to my knowledge so I don't believe that you know me.
I am an entrepreneur and enjoy conversations with other entrepreneurs. I had a photography business in my teens and did my first startup in Silicon Valley in 1979 when I was still in college. the resources that were available then were minimal.
The breakfasts attract a broad range of folks: 20 year olds to folks in their 60's, men, women, the entrepreneurially curious, people in startups, serial entrepreneurs, consultants, and others. We don't turn anyone away as long as they want to talk about real issues related to bootstrapping.
I started them because I was fed up with attending evening events that were either about hearing a VC speak or were in bars and involved bullshit networking. I wanted to take part in serious conversations about entrepreneurship, in particular bootstrapping a business, because there were too few discussions about real problems.
We have a unique format for the breakfasts that foster one conversation on a range of topics proposed by those that show up. We have guest speakers sometimes, but they only have prepared remarks for about 6-8 minutes at which point they take part in the conversation. We have invited a number of entrepreneurs to talk about lessons learned from successes and failures including the inventor of MacProject, Writely, Wowzamedia to name a few.
I am not sure how you have reached the conclusions about me that you have but you are mistaken in your characterization of my motives. In particular I reject "everything you do is for business." There are no pockets in shrouds: not everything has to be about money.
- wavesplash 17y agoUnless you've started a product company recently that you're not sharing with us, all the above plus your website says you're not an entrepreneur anymore. You may have been one 30 years ago, you may like being around entrepreneurs, but catering to them is not the same as being one today. Today it seems you're a consultant/service-provider. Although not original, your breakfasts may be good. Just please for the sake of our patience, call out your conflict of interest when posting here. There are many charming ways to do it. Denial or dismissal isn't one of them. If someone calls you on a conflict of interest and there's even a remote chance there might be a conflict, just say something like: "Forgive my oversight. ...". Then graciously move on.