Month: May 2011

Quotes For Entrepreneurs–May 2011

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Memorial Day 2011

On Memorial Day 2011 we commemorate those who died in the service of our country.  I offer three quotations related to men giving their lives in battle for you to meditate on.

Actionable Insights For The Entrepreneurially Minded

SKMurphy’s Book Club for Business Impact provides actionable insights for the entrepreneurially minded, whether you are trying to bring change to a market or an organization. It’s a webinar / call in  with a panel that has a roundtable discussion with the audience. Everyone will have a chance to contribute their experiences and lessons learned …

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SDForum Workshop Series “Networking for Lifetime Career Success”

SDForum June Event Information: Title: SDForum Workshop Series “Networking for Lifetime Career Success” Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 7:30 AM – 10:00 AM Description: During times of change, the ability to naturally and effectively network to identify new opportunities and develop professional relationships can be critical to success. In this interactive session, Next Step CEO, …

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Giving Up Too Soon, Persisting Too Long

I took part in a number of great conversations at today’s Startup Lessons Learned Conference, probably the most common–and most vexing–issue that was discussed was whether to give up in the face of modest success. I had perhaps half a dozen conversations around “We’ve come this far and have paying customers but are not sure …

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SLLConf 2011: Three Talks I Am Looking Forward To

I will be at the Startup Lessons Learned 2011 conference tomorrow.  If you are there in person please say hello, I am always interested in meeting one of the baker’s dozen who read my blog. At this point the conference is sold out but it is  being streamed to something like 100 locations, see http://www.sllconf.com/streaming …

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George Grellas on Leadership

George Grellas left a  great short essay on leadership in a comment on Hacker News. Writing in response to “Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will” This is reposted  with his permission (re-formatted from a single block of text).

SKMurphy’s Book Club for Business Impact Inspires You To Take Action

A special announcement for our valued readers SKMurphy introduces a new service, Book Club for Business Impact. This is a call-in virtual discussion group that leverages the best ideas from business experts, best-selling authors, and thought leaders. Listen to the live action group review and discuss prominent books and articles that will inspire you to …

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You Need to Be a Little Crazy by Barry Moltz

Call-in Book Review  Recorded on Wednesday, June 8, 2011Massimo Paolini, Miles Kehoe, Dorai Thodla, and Sean Murphy recap Barry Moltz’s “You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business”. They share how they personally found the courage to start their businesses and their desire to make “working for yourself” …

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Webinar: Practical Insights From “Back of The Napkin” May 11

Whether it’s in a conversation with your team, with prospects, partners, or customers, the ability to sketch and to encourage them to collaborate on a sketch of the issue that you are discussion can be very helpful. It can be on a white board in a conference room, on a sheet of graph paper, or …

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We Use a Wiki to Organize Customer Interviews

“The only certainty is a reasonable probability.” Edgar Watson Howe, “Country Town Sayings” We help clients to interview prospects in the early market for customer discovery purposes, we also help them have serious conversations with early customers periodically to capture their evolving perspective on the client’s offering. Sometimes we will do this on the client’s behalf …

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Tom Van Vleck’s “3 Questions” Complement Root Cause Analysis

Tom Van Vleck has  a great collection of software engineering stories on his site. One particularly good article is “Three Questions For Each Bug That You Find” which offers the following key observation: The key idea behind these questions is that every bug is a symptom of an underlying process. You have to treat the …

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