3 Questions Technical Entrepreneurs Have For Potential Co-Founders
Here are three common questions technical entrepreneurs have for potential co-founders.
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Associating, Pattern Matching, and Sensemaking
On Wed-Feb-22 at Noon PST the Book Club For Business Impact covered lessons learned applying a number of techniques for associating from chapter 2 of the “Innovator’s DNA” by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen.
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Doing Business On a Handshake
Doing business on a handshake requires us to listen carefully and offer our diagnosis your needs before moving on to how you can help yourself and where we can add value.
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Don’t Practice Veterinary Marketing: Talk to Prospects
My father used to complain that a friend of his would make his doctor practice veterinary medicine. The doctor would ask him what was wrong and his friend would reply in a non-committal way. Some entrepreneurs, especially in the early market, seem to prefer veterinary marketing: running tests and making changes in their application without
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A Great Comment Can Brighten Your Whole Day
I have been really encouraged by some of the great comments I have received on some recent blog posts.
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New Co-Working Space in Santa Clara: Ground Floor Silicon Valley
Max Bloom and Peter Bloom–yes they are brothers–have opened a new co-working space in Santa Clara called “Ground Floor Silicon Valley.” The 15,000 square foot facility is located at 2030 Duane Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95054 It’s an interesting facility that has only been open a few weeks. The facility includes about 4,000 square feet
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Tools for Finding a Physical Workspace: Deskwanted, LiquidSpace, Loosecubes, OpenDesks
Here is a list of tools for finding a physical workspace: this covers desks, cubicles, offices, and meeting rooms you can rent by the hour, day, or month.
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Best Business Book of 2011: The Innovator’s DNA
Steve Hogan and Sean Murphy provide an overview of the Innovator’s DNA webinar series offered by the Book Club for Business Impact.
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Even Great Art is Lost Without a Buyer
Lenny Greenberg observed, “Creating art for yourself that no one else wants is fine and dandy. But, when other people will pay, that means that it has value and meaning to others. Even great art is lost without a buyer.” Even Great Art is Lost Without a Buyer Every few days I tweet a “quote
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Defining Your Benefit and Targeting a Set of Prospects
The primary challenge when you are first targeting a set of prospects for your product is to resist the urge of seeing the product as broadly applicable, instead focus narrowly where you bring strong benefit to get traction.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs–January 2012
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Mentoring at Startup Weekend San Jose Jan 27-29 2012
I will be mentoring at Startup Weekend San Jose Jan 27-29 2012. I expect it will be a blast and welcome the chance to meet a number of talented entrepreneurs.
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Customer Development Is Not Just For Startups
Customer development is not just for startups. We have Fortune 500 clients launching new products who rely on customer development methods.
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Record to Remember, Pause to Reflect
Record to remember, pause to reflect. Combine these two actions to speed learning, improve your ability to plan, and make mid-course corrections in your plan of action.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–December 2011
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Entrepreneurial Imagination
If we are to reach better days we need as much entrepreneurial imagination as possible applied to the hard challenges facing us.
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Merry Christmas 2011
Merry Christmas 2011: “It’s a whole year between Christmases, but it’s a short Christmas between years.” Ashleigh Brilliant Merry Christmas 2011 “It’s a whole year between Christmases, but it’s a short Christmas between years.” Ashleigh Brilliant “Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.” E. B. White in “Charlotte’s Web”
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December Bootstrapper Breakfasts Recap 2011 To Prepare for 2012
We have four Silicon Valley Bootstrappers Breakfasts® scheduled in the last two weeks of December. All of these Bootstrapper Breakfasts will feature a facilitated roundtable conversation among bootstrapping entrepreneurs, a chance to network before and after the formal meeting, and the opportunity to compare notes with other bootstrapping entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast. At a
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Zoom In For Traction, Zoom Out For Impact
Your startup is a work in progress. When most entrepreneurs evaluate where they are it’s difficult not to include the promising future they foresee naturally ensuing from current efforts (or on bad days the certain doom no matter what they do). If you are not getting traction, if you don’t have the ability to reliably
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Anne Rozinat of Fluxicon Joins Business Book Panel for “Second Economy”
Anne Rozinat of Fluxicon Joins Business Book Panel Discussing “The Second Economy” “Every so often—every 60 years or so—a body of technology comes along and over several decades, quietly, almost unnoticeably, transforms the economy: it brings new social classes to the fore and creates a different world for business…something deep is going on with information
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