Month: April 2010

Business Card Printer Poll Results

Results as of April 28 from a recent Bootstrappers Breakfast poll recommend Vistaprint and Overnight Prints printers.  Staples, iPrint.com, and uprinting.com also have recommendations. If you would like to take the poll, visit http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2010/04/16/business-card-printers/

Startup Lessons Learned Conference Coverage Roundup

Update July 24, 2012: you may also be interested in Startup Lessons Learned Conference 2011 Coverage Roundup Entrepreneurs Need a Community of Practice, Not a Movement Overview The Startup Lessons Learned Conference (#sllconf) was Friday April 23rd, 2010.  This post is an effort to capture  press coverage and blog commentary on the conference that will …

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Tips For Getting the Most out of SLLConf (Live or Streaming)

I blogged about the “Startup Lessons Learned Conference on April 23” about three weeks ago and now the  conference is tomorrow (April 23rd) in San Francisco. Whether you are planning to attend in person or at a remote streaming session (more than 60 locations are available see http://www.sllconf.com/streaming ) I think the best way to …

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Do You Want to Track 200+ Electronic Design Automation Feeds?

We are working with a semantic technology firm to develop a new portal that will track EDA related blog posts and other content announced via an RSS,  Atom, or other feed protocol . Our goal is to provide a richer level of aggregation and analysis than an RSS reader with 200 feeds offers today (see …

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Do You Use a Wiki to Deliver Services or Develop Content?

I would be interested in talking with other consulting or professional service firms that are using Central Desktop or other wiki systems to collaborate with clients or deliver services. For example, when we give workshops we also put the text of the relevant workbook into a custom workspace for each attendee. Also, as a part …

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Common Mistakes in New Product Introduction Demos

A baker’s dozen of common mistakes that I have seen founders make in preparing, delivering, and evaluating a new product presentation/demo. Don’t keep giving the same presentation if it’s not working. I am surprised when I ask teams who have presented to two or three dozen prospects, “How has the presentation changed since the first …

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Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Innovation in Medical Care

Medicine and Electronic Medical Records are way overdue for improvement/disruption. My analysis is that the primary barrier is the economic model most practices operate under is focused on insurance reimbursement not patient satisfaction or outcomes. My hypotheses for this area that the starting niches for truly disruptive offerings would be doctors or medical practices that: …

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Cost Effective Approaches to Trademarks

We had a situation earlier this week where a potential competitor started to use the name of a client’s service for a similar offering. Fortunately the client had registered the trademark it last year and we were able to politely bring this to the incipient competitor’s attention. They have notified us that they will stop …

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Real Business Planning Example: Re-Scheduling a Workshop

I want to share a real situation with planning and decisions that are similar to what many entrepreneurs have to make. It was “timed test” involving internal coordination, customer preferences, and resource availability. I was walking into a client’s office, in the midst mental preparation for an advisory board meeting to review current sales forecast …

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Mining the Archives of This blog

Turn this into a list of good blog posts I started blogging on this site October 1, 2006  with “Welcome Entrepreneurs” and have written almost 600 blog posts since then. My opening paragraphs are still applicable to today: This blog is dedicated to entrepreneurs at any stage of their journey.  Both as individuals, in teams, and collectively …

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