JotSpot Dissolves Into Google Business Model
Jotspot dissolves into Google, shutting down their wiki service. Tipoff was shutting down new account creation after merger finalized.
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October 2006
Carole Edman, HR Manager To Go
Carole Edman was an extremely helpful HR consultant from 1986 to 2017, assisting many folks I know. She is now retired.
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Administrivia in Startups
Founders must recognize that administrivia in startups is the first thing they should find a way to delegate: it must be done but it does not have to be done by them.
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Nancy Blachman’s Google Guide
Nancy Blachman drafted, updated, and extended a fantastic guide to using Google she called “Google Guide.”
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Silicon Valley Meeting Locations
Here are a couple of our favorite places to meet clients in Silicon Valley: : coffee shops, restaurants, and conference rooms. (October 2006)
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Nusym De-cloaks 2
Nusym De-Cloaks part 2 offers lessons on stealth mode and how to describe the problem you are working for the customer’s benefit and not the investor’s.
Nusym De-cloaks
Nusym de-cloaks from stealth mode, promising an astonishing breakthrough before ultimately sinking without a trace.
Diane Greene’s Fireside Chat at TiE Oct 19
Diane Greene, VMware’s CEO, gave a fireside chat at TiE Silicon Valley tonight. It was outstanding. I had never heard her speak before. I was encouraged by two folks who knew her and she did not disappoint. She was the founding CEO of VMware, which was acquired by EMC in January 2004, and still runs
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A WACI Track at DAC
From the Call for Papers for the WACI track Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI) at DAC 2007 Submit a paper to the new WACI track at DAC and demonstrate your long-term vision! The WACI track will feature novel (and even unproven) technical ideas that create a buzz and get people talking. The aim of WACI
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Quotes on Foresight (Understanding the Future)
As entrepreneurs we are concerned with anticipating the future as much as creating it. Here are sixteen quotes on foresight and understanding the future.
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Bill Trenchard at SDForum Startup SIG Oct 16, 2006
Last night, I attended an SDForum Startup SIG featuring Bill Trenchard, CEO of LiveOps. Bill is a prime example of a serial entrepreneur. In 10 years he has been a founder and CEO of three successful start ups. One of which was Jump Networks, Inc., that was acquired by Microsoft in April 1999. Bill said
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Born with a Face Made for Podcasting
I was selected as a celebrity spokesmodel by Techdirt for their Insight Community. They put me–as part of a group–on the cover of their brochure for the Insight Community. I always knew I had a voice made for blogging but seeing the picture made me realize that I was born with a face made for
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Mark Duncan on “New Tools for Increasing Marketing Productivity”
A recap of a great talk by Mark Duncan at SDForum Marketing SIG on new tools for increasing marketing productivity.
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Referrals
Consulting is a referral business. One critical thing you can do to build referrals: keep in touch with folks you had shared success with.
Office 2.0 Tools for Consultants
A rundown of Office 2.0 Tools for Consultants gleaned from the 2006 Office 2.0 conference and SKMurphy’s current tool set.
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Blogging from Office 2.0 Conference
Blogging from Office 2.0 Conference I will be blogging from the Office 2.0 Conference[1] for the next two days. It’s a set of tools that I have been interested in for a while–blogs, wikis, content management systems, chat/IM, VoIP–with a focus on enabling small teams to work more effectively against a deadline. This is the
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Continuing Education In Entrepreneurship
Startups offer a continuing education in entrepreneurship but effective entrepreneurs learn from other’s experience in addition to their own.
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Mr. Garrity and the Ciphers from High Cap Companies
Tom Perkins called the emerging board-level leadership at Hewlett Packard “Ciphers from High Cap Companies.” It was not a compliment.
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Philipp Lenssen’s Tips For Crafting a Linkable Blog Post
Philipp Lenssen used his Googleblogoscope experience to craft a diagnostic quiz to assess how likely other bloggers are ink to your blog post.
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Krishna Kolluri at KASE’s Success Stories from Serial Entrepreneurs
Last Tuesday, October 3, was the first of four seminars in the KASE Entrepreneurship Academy. One of the featured speakers of the evening was a serial entrepreneur by the name of Krishna “Kittu” Kolluri. Kittu was Co-Founder of Healtheon/WebMD, an on-line resource for heath information. While at WebMD he was responsible for key operational and business development
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