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This is Sean Murphy of SKMurphy. I'm hosting today's podcast, and I'm pleased to have Carl Angotti as a guest. Carl is an experienced consultant who's been a member of PATCA for more than three decades. PATCA is the Professional and Technical Consultants organization. It's been active in Silicon Valley for more than 40 years. For more information on PATCA, the website is www.patca.org. PATCA offers lunches for new consultants facilitated by Carl Angotti.

Today, we are talking about one of the topics he regular addresses at the new consultants lunches, getting started on the cheap. Carl, do you want to take a minute, introduce yourself, and then we'll talk about getting started on the cheap?

Hi. I'm Carl Angotti, and I have been a consultant and member of PATCA for many years. I personally do product development consulting at Angotti Product Development.

Today I am going to talk about getting started on the cheap and quickly. This talk assumes that you've already researched and have a market and a service to offer to it. Now, you want to set up a company quickly and easily. Sometimes, this comes about because you actually get an assignment, and you'd like to start taking checks in under the company's name.

I will cover the following topics in this ten minute briefing

1. Longest Lead Time Item is a Fictitious Name
2. Post Your Resume Online
3. Consider a Separate Phone Line For Your Business--Or Use
4. Your Cell Phone
5. Plan for a Slow Ramp Up in Income and You Can Only Be Pleasantly Surprised
6. Consider Other Consultants as Potential Partners
7. Put Up a Basic Web Site
8. Networking Is a Great Way to Kick Off Your Business
9. Informational Interviews Enable Customer Discovery
10. Bottom Line: Getting Started Will Take a Massive Effort