January 2011

Mapping the Path to Your First Dollar of Revenue – Handout

Here is the handout from this morning’s Bootstrapper Breakfast® in Walnut Creek. Mapping the Path to Your First Dollar of Revenue Sean Murphy, SKMurphy, Inc. Bootstrapper Breakfast Walnut Creek Jan 25, 2011 Entrepreneurs tend to focus on having a good idea, or on the challenges of developing a new product, or on finding co-founders to

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Mapping The Path To Your First Dollar Of Revenue

We are relocating the East Bay Bootstrappers Breakfast® to Walnut Creek tomorrow. Please join us for our inaugural breakfast at the Heavenly Cafe on 3116 Oak Road. Pete Tormey, the regular facilitator, has asked me to speak on “Mapping the Path to Your First Dollar of Revenue.” Speakers at the Bootstrappers Breakfast normally only present

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Great Demo! Webinar January 25, 2011 9:00am PST

Peter Cohan is giving a Great Demo webinar Tue-Jan-25-2011 at 9am PST. When: January 25, 2011 9:00am PST Where: Online Webinar: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/423669683 Cost: Absolutely Free! Who should attend: Anyone that sells or demos SaaS Apps via screen sharing and meeting collaboration software, sales managers, sales reps. Objective: Introduce a framework to create and deliver improved

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Isaac Garcia on “Bootstrapping Central Desktop” at Feb-11 BB in Milpitas

Isaac Garcia, co-founder and CEO of Central Desktop, will share “Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Central Desktop” at the Milpitas Bootstrappers Breakfast® on February 11, 2011 at 7:30am. Central Desktop delivers a SaaS collaboration platform that helps businesses manage projects and documents in the cloud with colleagues, customers and partners. Isaac Garcia (@isaacgarcia) oversees business strategy and

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Ogden Lilly at Sunnyvale Bootstrappers Breakfast Tue-Jan-18

Join other entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast®  7:30am to 9am at Coco’s in  Sunnyvale tomorrow. Ogden Lilly from Boitano, Sargent and Lilly, LLP is attending tomorrow’s Bootstrapper Breakfast®  to answer questions on accounting and tax issues for startups. Boitano, Sargent, and Lilly has been serving Silicon Valley businesses for six decades, Ogden is a

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Uncertain Times 2

I mentioned in “Uncertain Times”  that we are in the midst of economic and technology transitions that have vastly increased the turbulence of our environment.  I have found two rules of thumb useful guides: “It may looks like a crisis but it’s only the end of an illusion.” Gerald Weinberg in Secrets of Consulting “Innovation

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Managing Challenges: Are You Preventing, Minimizing, or Reacting

Lan Liu opens his “Conversations on Leadership: Wisdom from Global Management Gurus” with an interesting anecdote. The King of Wei asked Bian Que, “You have two brothers who are doctors too. Which one of you three is the best?” Bian Que answered, “My big brother is the best. The other  brother is also better than

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A Recap of My 2010 Entrepreneurial Engineer Posts on EE Times

In my “Maiden Voyage” post on Jul-30-2010 for my Entrepreneurial Engineer blog on EE Times  I said that I would focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in the broader electronic systems design ecosystem. I hoped to provide insights in the following areas: Perspective on technology innovation. 10 quotes to help you bring order out of chaos

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Applying Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design To Startups

David L. Akin is the Director, SpaceSystems Laboratory at the University of Maryland. He is also the author of “Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design.” He lists more than 40 laws, here are ten that I thought were directly applicable to software entrepreneurship, but the whole list is very funny and worth reading.

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New Capabilities We Plan To Develop in 2011

To ensure that conversations and requests for help were productive, Anthony Scampavia kept a question at the top of his whiteboard in his various offices at Cisco for more than a dozen years: What is the problem you are trying to solve? Here are three problems we have identified and capabilities we plan to develop

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Always

“Always trust your client—and cut the cards.” Weinberg’s Sixth Rule of Trust Always be collecting data. Always be collecting multiple perspectives. “Always Be Collecting Data” The rule of ABCD “In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data” attributed to W. Edwards Deming Possibly a riff on “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” In

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