Sean Murphy

Zoom In For Traction, Zoom Out For Impact

Your startup is  a work in progress.  When most entrepreneurs evaluate where they are it’s difficult not to include the promising future they foresee naturally ensuing from current efforts (or on bad days the certain doom no matter what they do). If you are not getting traction, if you don’t have the ability to reliably […]

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Anne Rozinat of Fluxicon Joins Business Book Panel for “Second Economy”

“Every so often—every 60 years or so—a body of technology comes along and over several decades, quietly, almost unnoticeably, transforms the economy: it brings new social classes to the fore and creates a different world for business…something deep is going on with information technology, something that goes well beyond the use of computers, social media,

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Silicon Valley Bootstrapper Breakfasts in December/January

We have been facilitating Bootstrapper Breakfasts® since 2006 in Silicon Valley.  Our promise is serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cash flow and organic profit. This is not for entrepreneurs who want to meet VCs–there are plenty of meetings in Silicon Valley that already enable those conversations–this is for founders who are

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Start Black Friday at the Bootstrappers Breakfast in Mountain View

Do your shopping on-line and avoid the crowds, then drop by the Bootstrappers Breakfast® in Mountain View this Friday at 9am at Red Rock Coffee. We will be upstairs in our usual location in the corner to the left of the staircase. A Bootstrappers Breakfast allows you to Take part in a serious roundtable conversation among

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Panelists Announced for Bootstrapper’s Manifesto Book Club Webinar

We have two bootstrappers as panelists for Wednesday’s Business Book Club webinar on Seth Godin’s Bootstrapper’s Manifesto. Neal Tovsen, founder of TelemetryWeb.com Neal’s fifteen years of professional experience have focused on the architecture, design, and end-to-end development of highly available, distributed, scalable, software-as-a-service platforms.  His understanding of how to integrate sensor networks, remote monitoring, and

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Seth Godin’s “Bootstrapper’s Manifesto”

In Seth Godin’s “Bootstrapper Bible” he has this short manifesto that really is worth reading periodically. We will be discussing this at next week’s Book Club for Business Impact with several bootstrappers: I am a bootstrapper. I have initiative and insight and guts, but not much money. I will succeed because my efforts and my

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Perfectionism vs. Mastery

Perfectionism vs. Mastery Mastery’s great accomplishments require time and a willingness to release a sequence of prototypes. Perfectionism means you don’t ship until it’s perfect. Which means you never ship or what you ship has not learned from problems or needs that only visible post deployment. Randall Munroe’s “The General Problem” embeds this observation: “I

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Stay Tuned! We Are Being Purposefully Vague Right Now

I came across an interesting tool this week in the collaboration area. The web page invited me to apply for membership, prompting me to enter my e-mail, twitter handle, blog, and a brief bio. But they were “purposefully vague’ about who they were. It wasn’t exactly stealth mode, more like maintaining deniability if it failed

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Geva Solomonovich of Fraud Sciences at Fri-Nov-4 BB

Geva Solomonowich, an early employee at Fraud Sciences and several other startups joins us tomorrow to share lessons learned getting early customers and growing the business. Francis Adanza interviewed him on the Bootstrapper Breakfast blog in mid-October, here are some excerpts: Francis: Prior to Fraud Sciences, what were you doing? Geva: Before Fraud Sciences I

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