February 2009

Pitching Hacks Has $20 Worth of Advice for Bootstrappers As Well

Although it’s aimed at startup entrepreneurs who are seeking investment, the Pitching Hacks e-book from the Venture Hacks team has $20* of advice for bootstrappers as well. Investors don’t invest in businesses. They invest in stories about businesses. If you want to raise money on favorable terms, you need multiple investment offers. How do you …

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SKMurphy’s Peer Review for Websites Set for April 17

Looking for feedback on your website? Want to improve your website? When: Friday April 17, 2009 11:30 AM -1PM (Lunch Included) Where: Plug & Play Tech Center 440 N Wolfe Rd Sunnyvale, California 94085 SKMurphy will host an upcoming Peer Review Event for Websites. Three fellow CEOs will present their website while the roundtable will …

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Sean Murphy to Speak at Bay Area Business Growth Meetup

Sean Murphy is speaking at Bay Area Business Growth Meetup on “Leveraging Your Referral Network to Grow Your Business”. Thursday March 19, 2009 4-6pm Pacific Business Center 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd Suite 100 Cupertino CA 95014 Register: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=177524 Referrals from satisfied customers are the best way of generating new business. In the context of established …

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March 31, 2009 Getting More Customers

Getting More Customers – A 90-day Plan Update Mon-Mar-30: Sold Out. Sorry No Walk-ins (Register to be notified of upcoming events) Tuesday, March 31, 2008 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) Pacific Business Center 2225 East Bayshore Road Palo Alto CA 94303 650-320-7600 Click here to Register: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=zbmdv We will cover a variety of …

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Spellr.us Is So Good That I Want To Pay For It

I sent Kevin Garber an E-Mail yesterday afternoon “I love the product, I would like to pay for it.” I had spent about twenty hours in the last week cleaning up typo’s on www.skmurphy.com and www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com (first of all who knew that there were so many different ways to spell bootstrapper and entrepreneur, to name …

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Other Customer Development Models

In “The Challenges of Measuring Non-Existent Markets” Scott D. Anthony outlines four principal challenges in measuring non-existent markets: Data does not yet exist. When a market doesn’t exist, there are no baseline market research reports or time-series data sets to analyze. Lack of comparable products. Without existing data, there is a natural tendency to look …

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