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Come join entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast. At a Bootstrappers Breakfast we have serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow & organic profit: this is for founders who are actively bootstrapping a startup.
The other attendees will all be in startups. It will be a chance to compare notes on operational, development, & business issues with peers.
We have a featured attendee, Allen Hirashiki, who will share lessons learned assembling a team of diverse experts & keeping them together & moving forward
Allen Hirashiki: How To Keep Bootstrapping Team Together & Moving Forward
In the MVP development phase for a team bootstrapping a product it can be difficult to keep the team motivated & moving forward. Allen Hirashki will share some lessons learned on shared accountability, morale, & joint planning he has learned boostrapping Mindframers (http://mindframers.com/), a new wearable device startup.
This hardware product has a related smartphone app & charging station & has a team that includes electrical, mechanical, & software engineer as well as sales & business development folks experienced in medical device sales. Allen will talk about how to was able to attract a talented group of team members by aligning around a mission to help people manage situational stress (e.g. public speaking, taking tests, & visiting the dentist).
Allen Hirashiki has more than two decades of experience in as a mechanical & thermal engineering manager & cross-functional hardware team leader. He has held engineering & senior leadership positions at Ericsson, Fabric 7, & Cisco. He has a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly Pomona. For the last decade he was a volunteer EMT, First Aid Provider, & with the Bay Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. He holds several patents for innovations in backplane & enclosure design for high performance networking equipment.
We meet in the back area, so space is limited - Please RSVP.
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