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Q: I am considering product market fit metrics for an add-on new product launching in a well established company that makes equipment to test electrical cables (for the last 29 years). We are introducing a new product that is an add-on to existing products (it is only useful if used with the existing product). This is …
We have a week left in 2013. This is a short post to collect some odds and ends on the day after Christmas, also known as Feast of St. Stephen or Boxing Day depending upon where you are reading this.
Merry Immanent Christmas! His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. “He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the …
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” Charles Dickens in “A Christmas Carol“
This post curates content and commentary related to the 2013 Lean Startup Conference: videos, blog posts, slides, articles, etc.. I will continue to update it until about mid-February 2014 as videos, slide decks, blog posts and articles related to the 2013 Lean Startup Conference are published. If I have overlooked a post or other content …
Mastermind groups complement our Bootstrappers Breakfast meetings, they are for entrepreneurs who want to meet with a smaller group of the same people on a regular basis and really get to know each others’ businesses. In addition to the four Bootstrapper Breakfasts in Silicon Valley we facilitate three Mastermind groups. Napoleon Hill coined the Mastermind …
The regular schedule for the Bootstrapper Breakfast fit nicely with the holidays this December. One around the table question we will ask at all three December breakfasts is, “What did you learn in 2013 that will make you more effective as an entrepreneur in 2014?” Fri Dec 6 7:30am Bootstrapper Breakfast Palo Alto Tue Dec 17 7:30am …
A Q&A with Terry Frazier where he outlines his view of real competitive analysis, advising firms to stop relying on SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) analysis.
I re-read Tom DeMarco‘s “Slack” over the Thanksgiving break and came away with a couple of good ideas worth sharing. Slack: Speed Difference Between Prudent and Breakneck Tom DeMarco offers the following definition of slack in the second to last chapter “Working at Breakneck Speed” Back in the time of sailing ships, going anywhere by ship …
