Bootstrapping Talking before the session, Bill said send him tips about starting up bootstrapping if you have them. reichert at garage dot com. They’re looking for resourceful entrapreneurs who ca...

Funding Your Dream Moderator - Mohanjit Jolly Steve Baloff, Advanced Technology Ventures; Bill Green, VantagePoint Venture Partners; Martin Kuhn, Sony; Steve Jurvetson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson; I...

Raising Venture capital - Bill Q1 - is your idea fundable? Not everything is. You need a business that has potential for sustainable rapid growth, get to significant size and scale (billion dollar...

Presenting What and How - most people concentrate too much on what and not how. start at the end: pitch decay says that most people forget very quickly. You need to find the most importan...

Positioning and Presenting The Art of Positioning #1 problem - talking about what you do concisely. Two points are market definition and value proposition. It will take many hours. Early on it’s...

Still in the panel Jeff - Goldman Sachs; Dave - Mahler, Nixon, and Williams; Alan - Comerica; Betty - Krause Taylor Associates; Mark - Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group Mark talking about finding a...

Jeff Adams, Dave Anderson, Alan Jepsen, Betty Taylor, Mark Weeks. Panel on creating an ecosystem. Q - what is the current atmosphere? Mark - not expecting another bubble, but the startup environ...

Art of Starting - Guy That’s the name of his new book. People came in from out of the country (lots of people from Canada). The cover of his book is a stock photo from an online service. He lik...

I’m over at The Art of the Start today, so I’ll try to stream out some updates of the course of the day.

I tried to use the TMobile interface for using AOL Instant Messenger from my mobile phone the other day, and it didn’t quite work out the way that I had hoped. In the past I probably would have gon...