Every few days I post a quotation on www.twitter.com/skmurphy that I think will be useful or thought provoking for entrepreneurs. On the last day of the month I collect these quotes for entrepreneurs into a blog post and add some context. For a list of all my blog posts that are related to quotations see …
Michael Schrage offers some useful insights on innovation: he stresses the need for collaboration both within the startup (or new product team) and between the startup and its early customers.
We invest a lot of effort in finding partners and maintaining partner relationships. We do this for a variety of reasons. One of the advantages to working in a large firm is that there are normally resources and expertise you can call on when confronted with a challenge. There are typically other specialists who have …
“Bootstrappers Breakfast” was registered June 23, 2009 as a trademark of SKMurphy, Inc. “For education services, namely providing live and on-line seminars, workshops, and mentoring sessions in the field of entrepreneurship.” No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “breakfast” apart from “Bootstrappers Breakfast.” Details as they unfold: we will do six breakfasts …
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Rajeev Madhavan has founded three companies, ultimately taking Magma Design Automation public. We cover his background and lessons learned as a successful serial entrepreneur.
Craig Shirley on “Negotiating with Key Accounts” Tue-Jun-16 in Sunnyvale Craig Shirley, VP of Sales at Apache Design Solutions has attended a couple of Bootstrapper Breakfasts® in 2009 and always gives very practical advice on sales and negotiation issues. No surprise, he has more than two decades of experience in sales and sales management and …
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I spent today at the Hadoop Summit 2009 (hadoopsummit09). Although I paid my $100 registration fee in advance I made the mistake of getting there a few minutes after 9am with the first keynote underway and joined a thick knot of hangers on in one of the doorways to the ballroom (don’t tell the fire …
I don’t know how I overlooked Andrew Chen’s “Your Ad-Supported Web 2.0 Site is Actually a B2B Enterprise in Disguise” He succinctly outlines some hard facts that many founders of media startups spend a year of their life to learn:
Brant Cooper and I are doing another conference call for entrepreneurs actively engaged in customer development. We facilitated one on June 3 and have another planned for 1pm Thursday June 18. To participate, you must: be actively engaged in practicing customer development principles; clearly articulate one or two issues that you would like to discuss; …
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We are facilitating another website peer review Thursday June 11 at PATCA. At our April 17 website peer review, we were asked by Jerry Rice to produce a similar event for PATCA and were happy to oblige. Theresa is a member of PATCA and regularly attends their events. She blogged about “Three Reasons to Attend …
We have been invited to join the “EE Times Trusted Sources” list of blogs. At the discretion of EE Times editors a blog post may be selected from one recently published and a capsule summary placed in their “Trusted Sources” area. EET has characterized the section as follows. This section features posts from around the …
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Robert Dang, partner and attorney at Fortis General Counsel, http://www.fortisgc.com returns to our Bootstrapper Breakfast™ this Friday, June 5 at Hobee’s Palo Alto (4224 El Camino Real) at 7:30 am. Robert will answer questions and discuss the legal issues facing entrepreneurs in today’s economy. Fortis is a startup friendly firm and endorsed by attendees. Rob’s …
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