Archive for July, 2011

Jaremy Rich (Seattle Curator, Startup Digest) at Startup BBQ 2011

We had a great time chatting with Jaremy Rich, Seattle Curator for Startup Digest, in this interview at the 2nd Annual Startup BBQ at Gasworks park in Seattle last Monday night.

We talk about being refugees in Seattle and the fun geek events Startup Digest is tracking.

Rebecca Lovell (Geekwire’s Chief Business Awesomer) at Startup BBQ 2011 in Seattle

We had a great time chatting with Rebecca Lovell, Geekwire’s Chief Business Awesomer, in this interview at the 2nd Annual Startup BBQ at Gasworks park in Seattle last Monday night.

We talk about the quick rise of Geekwire on the Seattle scene and the maturation of the tech community as a whole.

Marc Nager at Startup BBQ 2011 in Seattle

We made our way over to the 2nd Annual Startup BBQ at Gasworks park in Seattle last night. Here’s our first video from the night – a great interview with the chief instigator of the event, Marc Nager.

Marc is CEO of Startup Weekend here in Seattle. We’ll be posting more interviews over the next week, so stay tuned!

The Wand-repreneurs

While out on a date with my beautiful bride last Saturday night (we saw Super 8 – a perfect movie, but I digress), we ran across a couple of young entrepreneurs at the movie theater near Fry’s here in Seattle.

It was opening weekend of the final Harry Potter movie, and they were selling homemade Harry Potter wands near the theater entrance.

I couldn’t resist grabbing a quick video to hear their story.

Many thanks to their great dad, Gary, for inspiring these entrepreneurial minds, as well as allowing us to share their story here.

Hi There

This whole thing started years ago around the rise of YouTube and the proliferation of online video.

Mostly as a networking tool, my wife Jen and I started showing up at various tech events around Seattle to capture video of the wonderful presentations folks were doing.

After years of documenting the community and accumulating various configurations of gear, it dawned on us one day that what we’d snowballed along the way was a great little multi-camera HD broadcast studio.

It’s funny when you realize that you’ve bootstrapped a facility that not too many years ago used to fill semi-trucks and cost millions of dollars.

Funny how the world changes.

Having high quality production services available to rapid prototype video content for businesses at a very low cost just seems like an interesting thing to make available to the wider community.

This is how Bootstrapper Studios was born and is an invitation to all sorts of interesting questions.

We’re setting up shop at Founder’s Co-op / TechStars headquarters in the South Lake Union (SLU) startup neighborhood of Seattle. Drop us a line if you’ve got a project in mind:

info@bootstrapperstudios.com