Interesting Trend: Nightowl Co-Working
Nightowl Co-Working is a new concept and complementary to Bootstrapper Breakfasts that start at 7:30am–hard to imagine common attendees!
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Picked Up And Moved Heavy Objects Without Getting Hurt
My first real job was as a furniture mover when I was 16. When it came time to put together a resume as I was graduating from college “picked up and moved heavy objects without getting hurt” was the best description I could come up with. I came across a copy of that first resume over
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Paul Saffo: Forecasting is “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held”
Paul Saffo defines “strong opinions, weakly held” as an effective mindset for foresight or making forecasts. This is a good approach for entrepreneurs.
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Signup For “Will Work For Equity” at Silicon Valley Code Camp
I have submitted the following session for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp: Will Work For Equity – the World Startups Are you considering joining a startup? Sean Murphy, CEO at SKMurphy, will host a panel outlining important tips and issues to consider if you are investing your time in a startup. This session will
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Entrepreneurial Engineer Blog Launches With Oasys CEO Interview
I am delighted to be able to return to EE Times as a regular columnist/blogger after a sixteen year absence, with my Entrepreneurial Engineer Blog. Richard Wallace, now blogging at “The Next Silicon Valley“, asked me to write “Nickel Tours of the ‘Net” which cataloged the impact of the Internet on Electronic Design as websites
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Product-Market Fit is a Fraction Not a Bit
Product-Market fit is a measure of the relative fitness of a product solving a problem for a particular customer set at a point in time.
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Keep on Walking
My brother told me about “The Man Who Walked Around the World,” a 2009 long form commercial for Johnnie Walker that was part of their Keep on Walking campaign. It stars Robert Carlyle in a six minute single take. I am not a scotch drinker but I found Carlyle’s delivery of the story of the
Quotes For Entrepreneurs–July 2010
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Pierre Khawand’s Results Curve
Pierre Khawand has an intriguing E-book out “The Results Curve™: How to Manage Focused and Collaborative Time” that makes the following suggestions for increasing your personal effectiveness in the face of the plethora of sources for interruption and distraction we can leave ourselves vulnerable to if we are not careful. He has five key observations/suggestions
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Recognizing Chris Finnie as a Partner and Advisor
We focus on strategy and business development for software startups. We’ve been fortunate to develop strong relationships with firms who also serve startups but offer complementary services, as well as firms who focus on larger clients but whose expertise is also of benefit to startups. We work with a number of partners to create value
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If We Killed Our Product Would You Miss It?
Don’t ask prospects, “If we killed our product would you miss it?” It’s product management malpractice.
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Deprecating Facebook 3: Marcelo Rinesi’s Perspective
This is the third in a series about my decision to move away from using Facebook. Deprecating Facebook means no longer trading hard won social knowledge for a trivially valuable way to communicate with people we already know.
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DreamSimplicity Interview Transcript
Here is the transcript–edited for clarity and hyperlinked for context–for my recent interview with Floyd Tucker of DreamSimplicity Marketplace. The focus was on our startup stages model: formation, open for business, early customers, finding a niche, and scaling up.
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Summer Reading For August 2010
This summer vacation I will be reading Teaming Up: The Small Business Guide to Collaborating With Others to Boost Your Earnings and Expand Your Horizons by Paul Edwards (Author), and Sarah Edwards (Author) Looking for a business book to read on upcoming summer trip? Here are a couple more ideas: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Switch
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Startup Business Development at July 20 Bootstrapper Breakfast
Mark Florant joins us as a guest speaker this Tuesday’s Bootstrapper Breakfast® at Coco’s in Sunnyvale. He will talk about business development for early stage startups. Mark will share some lessons learned working with early stage startups, including three he is currently assisting with sales and market development: Aquabella Organics, WSpider, and 360iCoach. Mark’s expertise
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Four Movies To Renew Your Gumption
Here are four movies that I watch when I need to refill my gumption or recover my sisu: The Verdict, Apollo 13, The Dish, and The World’s Fastest Indian.
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Experiments Vs. Commitments
Distinguish between experiments and commitments with customers. Share prototypes and ask for feedback but keep your promises. The easiest way to keep a promise is not to make one, so take great care in what you sign up for.
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Ten Design Thinking Quotes From Marty Neumeier
Thanks to a retweet by Daniel McKenzie I stumbled across Marty Neumeier‘s twitter feed and discovered a stream of insight related to design thinking. I have selected my favorite ten.
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DreamSimplicity Interviews Sean Murphy
I was recently interviewed by Floyd Tucker of DreamSimplicity Marketplace and the interview can be seen below and on DreamSimplicity.com. We talk about how even though each startup team is unique, they have a common set of milestones they have to achieve to move from idea to revenue. We also chat briefly about the Bootstrapper
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Fourth of July 2010
Fourth of July is when the Declaration of Independence was signed, America’s declaration to England that “You’re Not The Boss of Me Now.”
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