Five financial mistakes bootstrappers can avoid include financing with credit cards or high interest loans and taking on long term financial commitments like a lease or an employee too early.
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Peter Cohan from Second Derivative offers some of the best sales demo/pitch training and hands-on learning that we have seen. So we are honored to offer these interactive workshops to startups. Here is the upcoming schedule: March 5&6, 2014 “Great Demo!” San Jose, CA May 21&22, 2014 “Great Demo!” San Jose, CA October 15&16, 2014
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Let’s face it, finding customers can be quite a challenge. In this interactive workshop, we will cover a variety of proven marketing techniques for growing your business: attendees will select one or two that fit their style and develop a plan to implement them in their business in the next 90 days. Speaking – small
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A real thank you email from a Voler Systems newsletter reader sent to Walt Maclay, who thanked us for creating such good articles.
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SKMurphy develops highly relevant and valuable content to attract, engage, and acquire customers. We help our clients organize and clearly articulate their experiences and insights in ways that generate inquires. We develop an editorial calendar that complements SEO strategy and ecosystem partner relationships. We always consider audio, video, and animation options in addition to leveraging
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The last few years have seen the rise of Quantified Self movement and increasing demand for solutions for the Home Health market as the US population continues to age. Many startups are also offering new and very popular personal fitness applications. As a result we are seeing a lot of new products aimed at the
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An interesting talk by Mary Sorber, founder of NightingaleRX, providing a caregiver’s view of methods and technologies currently employed for what doctors call the polypharmacy problem and non-professionals often experience as a “big bag of pills”. Matching Polypharmacy Solutions to Personas from mksorber1 Related Blog Posts Q: Should I Be an Entrepreneur? My perspective on
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We use this definition in our “Engineering Your Sales” and “Validating Your MVP” workshops and our MVP clinics. Our focus is on developing and selling products to businesses so that biases the definition a little bit but it’s important to remember what’s under your control in crafting your MVP: The particular type of customer: you
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I saw some very cool stuff at the Inside 3D Printing Conference yesterday. Here are some pictures of a few of my favorites. A scale model from MCOR paper 3D printers. There was lots of toys. This one is from fabbster. But not everything was hard and stiff – check out this personalized rubber shoe
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We are excited to see Robert Felten’s recent project, GUI for a flash drive, featured in EE Times. Robert Felten Software provides Software Development Consulting and Contracting. He specializes in Qt/C++ GUI and embedded software. See the Rick Merritt’s round up of the Flash Memory Summit at “Slideshow: Flash Innovators Flood Show” Robert is a
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Every once in awhile we find great workshops that are open to all size companies. Bill Meade’s “Capturing Intellectual Property” is one such workshop. His hands-on workshop will cover: What is intellectual property (IP) The forms and functions of legal IP protections The IP system and its functioning (on one slide) Capturing an invention Checking
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We get a number of questions about logos, here are three tips for designing or choosing a logo when you are bootstrapping or just getting started: Text Treatments: text logos are simple, the company name is always right there. Most high tech logos are text treatments, they are clear and simple. With text logos you
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Sean Murphy, CEO of SKMurphy Inc will be moderating two upcoming MVP Clinics. These are interactive roundtable discussions were entrepreneurs can present where they are with their MVP and hypotheses about customer, problem, solution, and value. The roundtable will explore issues that founders are having in defining and evaluating their MVP. Bootstrappers Breakfast on July
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Join us on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 for a new class “Get Out Of Your Batcave: Customer Development for Lean Startups” from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM at Education @ PARISOMA in San Francisco, CA. You’ll learn how to: Establish “ground truth” in an early market Use an MVP (minimum viable product) to explore the
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A talk I enjoyed by Simon Sinek (@simonsinek) on “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action Some great insights from Apple, Dr. Martin Luther King, and the Wright Brothers: Why -> How -> What Start with Why Why is not “to make a profit” that’s a result.. Why is your purpose, your
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Join us in San Francisco for an interactive workshop “Validating your MVP & Value Proposition.” We will cover a variety of proven techniques for validating your MVP & value proposition for B2B startups. When: 5:30-8:30 PM Tue-Apr-2-2013 Where: 1355 Market, Suite 488, San Francisco Cost: $60 This interactive workshop will provide: Systematic approach to validating your
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We have openings for our Mastermind Groups geared for technical entrepreneurs. for CEOs Entrepreneurs who wanted to form an advisory board of peers with a deeper understanding of each other’s businesses and shared accountability. for CTOs We have found that the CTO has a unique role on a startup team: they are expected to be
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If you missed SKMurphy and SalesQualia at Lean Startup Conference’s workshop, Sean Murphy and Scott Sambucci led an interactive workshop on developing and debugging your repeatable and scalable B2B sales process. In the workshop, we worked a number of sales issues that the attendees from lean startups had: Can’t get potential customers to call back
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A suggested checklist for your end of year planning efforts.
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All companies, even those that take a lean approach, face these problems in B2B sales: You can’t get potential customers to call back They won’t make a decision They seem to like a ever-ending beta, but they will not buy Your deals stall This interactive workshop will help you learn from these problems by using
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