By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcher

I've met Greg Gianforte several times because my friend Annie Kim used to work at RightNow Technologies before leaving for business school at MIT. As founder and CEO of RightNow, Greg loves to talk about his enterprise "software as a service" company. But if given the chance, he really loves to talk about entrepreneurship and how to build companies.

Greg has a book coming out in September called "Bootstrapping Your Business." His management advice comes from his experience in five startup ventures.

I shared some of Greg's management advice about a month ago, and the feedback was excellent. Greg agreed to contribute more nuggets of wisdom on a regular basis and I promise to deliver them to you in short question/answer format segments.

Greg kicks off our thought leaders series, which will mostly appear on Thursdays, featuring top-notch advice from our Silicon Valley/global business leaders and tech gurus.

Please send questions (tom at foremski dotcom) for Greg. Your name and company affiliation can be withheld from publication if you are more comfortable that way. To get things rolling, I'll start him off with a few questions this Thursday.

Some earlier posts:

Secrets of starting and growing a company





Tales of the newrules enterprise