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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/
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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I came across an interesting conference going on today that seems related to tomorrow’s Startup Lessons Learned Conference: the Lean Software & Systems Conference with a hashtag #lssc10. It looks like this is the second year and last year it was held in Miami in 2009. It’s managed by the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. …
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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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 …
Do You Want to Track 200+ Electronic Design Automation Feeds? Read More »
It’s easier to become very good at two or three things than the best at one specific thing: this “Jack of all Trades” strategy applies both for career and entrepreneurial endeavors.
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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Create and Deliver Surprisingly Compelling Software Demonstrations “Do The Last Thing First” — the recipe for a Great Demo! When: Wednesday, Sept 15, 2010 8 am – 5 pm Where: Moorpark Hotel, 4241 Moorpark Ave, San Jose CA 95129 Cost: $590 Before Aug 28: $566 This is an interactive workshop with Peter Cohan geared especially …
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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Building an Expertise Based Startup (Part 2) I asked two weeks ago in “Are You Building An Expertise Based Startup?” about a model for an expertise driven company that I have been working on for more than year. Have come across two other references that I think bear the concept. From a post by David …
Four keys to success in any career, but especially as an entrepreneur, are: self-mastery, expertise, connections, and perseverance.
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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Two key tasks we help early stage teams with are preparing for and executing successful negotiations. Honesty in negotiation is key to a long term deal.
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 …
There is something very seductive about a ramjet engine, it has no moving parts, and all you need to do is pour jet fuel into it: the fuel catches fire and generates a tremendous amount of thrust. This is the attraction of the two sided market. Just get enough “users” or “prospects” or “buyers” and …
It’s hard to believe that I still walk around handing out pieces of paper to new people that I meet. Of course when you wanted a nice resume in 1980 you had to have it typeset–no laser printers yet–so sometimes things do change. What follows is a list of changes by decade for what has …
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 …
Real Business Planning Example: Re-Scheduling a Workshop Read More »
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 …
Eric Ries has asked me to help out as a mentor for B2B startup teams at the Startup Lessons Learned Conference on Friday April 23 from 8AM to 6:30PM. It’s quite a line-up and even if you don’t plan to travel to San Francisco there will be a number of streaming video sites that will …
