{"id":1849,"date":"2014-11-19T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2014-11-17T09:47:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T15:47:54","slug":"denver-bootstrappers-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1849","title":{"rendered":"Denver Bootstrappers Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Army boots by liftarn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1447521121_94a34fec32_m_boots.jpg\" alt=\"boots photo\" width=\"216\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8543480@N06\/1447521121\" target=\"_blank\">liftarn<\/a> <a title=\"Attribution-ShareAlike License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My friend and former colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/snipesconsulting.com\/\">Corey Snipes<\/a> has been working to get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Bootstrappers-Lunch\/\">Bootstrapper&#8217;s meetup<\/a> off the ground in Denver. This is a small group (limited to 12, I believe) of people who are building products (typically software) and self funding. I believe most of the members are in the solopreneur mode (I know Corey is).<\/p>\n<p>I imagine this kind of support group would be fantastic&#8211;certainly I had a similar group when I was a consultant in the past, and bouncing ideas off of others in similar situations made the struggle much easier.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not made this meetup yet because, a) I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m bootstrapping (and you know what, if you aren&#8217;t sure you&#8217;re bootstrapping, you aren&#8217;t bootstrapping!), b) I live in Boulder and Boulderites have a hard time leaving the Boulder Bubble, and c) Wednesdays in general are tough days for me to do anything outside of the house.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a bootstrapper in the Denver area, take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and former colleague Corey Snipes has been working to get a Bootstrapper&#8217;s meetup off the ground in Denver. This is a small group (limited to 12, I believe) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-programming","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}