SLLConf 2011: Three Talks I Am Looking Forward To
I am looking forward to three talks at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 (SLLConf 2011) by David Binetti, Steve Blank, and Suneel Gupta.
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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).
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Price, Value, and Your Prospect’s Perception of Risk
Here are a couple of rules of thumb you may find helpful in thinking about price, value, and your prospect’s perception of risk.
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Early Markets Offer Fluid Opportunities
Startups see fluid opportunities in dynamic environments, but no certainties before opportunities pass or the “situation changes.”
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Tristan Kromer on Businesses Models
Tristan Kromer suggests that there are many viable models for a business, all have advantages and drawbacks. Services are easy to start but hard to scale. Despite surface appearance, a software business still inventory of people, key assets in the form of ideas, and a manufacturing process in the form of software release.
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Users, Businesses, and Hobbies
Users are important but are not necessarily customers, business serve customers at a profit, businesses that don’t make a profit are hobbies.
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Interview Prospects To Find Unmet Needs, Persistent Problems, and Goals at Risk
Customer understand when they have unmet needs, persistent problems, and goals and risk. They are normally very good at describing their problems and constraints on a solution but less accurate in fully specifying a solution.
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Webinar: Practical Insights From “Back of The Napkin” May 11
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
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We Use a Wiki to Organize Customer Interviews
Tips for using a wiki to organize customer interviews for customer discovery and to assess perspectives on their offering after purchase.
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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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Quotes for Entrepreneurs–April 2011
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Stoking the Star Maker Machinery Behind The Popular App
To many of the current incubators seem focused on “on hit wonder” startups designed to be acquired quickly. Apps are the new pop songs and the incubators are the music labels, stoking the star maker machinery.
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Georgi Dagnall on Steve Blank’s Visit to April Bootstrapper Breakfast
Georgi Dagnall, founder of Geogad a mobile tours applications, offers her perspective on Steve Blank’s visit to the Bootstrappers Breakfast.
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Larry Lang on Managing Incentives
[Note this post was written in 2011]. The recent troubles at Cisco have prompted a lot of commentary on the Cisco alumni e-mail list. One of the more thoughtful analyses was posted by Larry Lang (@llang629), who spent more than a decade at Cisco in a variety of positions. His last was as VP and
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Making the Trains Run on Time: Software Release
Making the Trains Run on Time is a very effective a model for planning a Software Release; it’s better to fix the schedule and see what fits.
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Conversations Entrepreneurs Remember
Bootstrappers Breakfasts are hot coffee and a shared meal with conversations that entrepreneurs remember and apply to their business..
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Failure to Thrive
Failure To Thrive: “We need another two weeks to add this one last feature.” This mindset of hesitation kills more products than any competitor.
Quotes For Entrepreneurs–March 2011
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Address A Problem An Industry Promotes In Satisfying A Major Need
There is always a the hill behind the hill. Address the next problem an industry promotes when they have solved a major problem.
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Human Nature As Applied to Software Development
Human nature, both at an individual cognitive level and a group social level, strongly influences software development methods.
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