Mark Brinkerhoff: Starting With a Sketch Saves Money
A great short briefing by Mark Brinkerhoff on how starting with a sketch saves money; he uses a simple HVAC design example but the technique is broadly applicable.
A great short briefing by Mark Brinkerhoff on how starting with a sketch saves money; he uses a simple HVAC design example but the technique is broadly applicable.
Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in April 2022, theme is embracing the Stockdale Paradox, overcoming fear, responding when reality gets a vote and real life intrudes.
Leslie Odom, Jr.’s “Failing Up” is an autobiography written at what I hope is the midpoint of a long and successful career. He has a lot of practical advice gleaned from performing that I think is very applicable to entrepreneurs.
An excerpt from Andrew Grove’s “Only the Paranoid Survive” shows Grove and Gordon Moore recognizing reality and exiting a money losing business, the memory business that had brought Intel so much early success.
I review Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, suggest other books at the intersection of economics, systems analysis, and everyday life.
Startup Founders – Plan to do something epic with their one wild and precious life!
Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in March 2022, theme this month is cultivating creativity and inventiveness.
Andrey Oleksiuk, CTO at hOS, shares what he has been doing to keep his Ukrainian R&D team safe and productive during the Russian invasion.
While the more visible extroverts seem like a natural first choice to approach for feedback on your product, you can learn as much when you listen to the quiet ones.
A conversation with Brendan McAdams about what’s involved in drawing a map of the customer organization as part of an enterprise sale.
Video, slides, and edited transcript from a talk by Sean Murphy at Lean Culture on “Startups: What’s Hot, What’s Not” on Feb-22-2022.
Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in February 2022, theme this month is detecting and managing anomalies and outliers.
An interview with Adam Starrh on lessons learned building a distribution network to sell California almonds and pistachios in India.
Need an accountant for business taxes? Here are accountants recommended by Bootstrappers Breakfast members for startups and small businesses.
In “Solving for Pattern,” Wendell Berry writes about organic farming principles. Still, he offers a systems perspective applicable to startups and growing businesses that need to develop both staff and technology to thrive.
Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in January 2022, theme this month is orchestration: documenting innovation related methods and processes to create consistent and predictable results.
We recently interviewed Adam Verhasselt, founder and creative director at Vlux Visual. He creates music visuals and augmented reality experiences to build brands from the ground up.
Interview with Hmayak Tigranyan, founder of Buildern, a project management tools for the construction industry.
Erin Austin advises consultants to build exclusive assets and sustainable processes in their practice if they want to be able to sell it.
A Q&A with Michal Mazurek, the founder of Syften, on lessons learned bootstrapping a monitoring and analytics startup.