Looks like we will be in good company. Whether you are considering leaving you day job for a startup, you are consulting while you develop a product, you are open for business and looking for early customers, looking for smarter customers, or you’ve found your niche and you are looking to scale up, drop by. We will also have a startup resource center that can help you if you need
- to get your startup incorporated and on a solid legal foundation
- to find a good name for your company (or your first product)
- to make sure your taxes are in order (you still have a few weeks)
- to find someone to help with your books
- to find your first office (or maybe just rent a conference room)
- to investigate whether filing a patent makes sense
- to get help drafting a business plan that demonstrates why your firm deserves investment
- to get assistance with a number of other challenges you face bootstrapping your software startup.
We are still focused on the “early customers early revenue” challenge, but we can recommend some good firms who can help you with some equally important concerns.
You can print this page out and bring it to get a free expo pass. Expo hours
- Tuesday, March 4, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
- Wednesday, March 5,
- 11:45 am – 2:00 pm
- Reopens, 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm
- Thursday, March 6,
- 11:45 am – 2:00 pm
- Reopens, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Join us at SDWest 2008 March 3-7, the conference offers with both business and technology tracks and has an interesting mix of sessions for software entrepreneurs. In addition to the technology oriented sessions you would expect, the conference has added a “Business of Software” track that should prove valuable to folks in–or planning to be in–a software startup. As a part of the business track, Steve Blank is speaking on Starting and Running an Entrepreneurial Company: Customer Development and he is always worth listening to.
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