Fall Back 2010
It’s Fall Back 2010, you get back the hour you lost when you pushed the clocks an hour ahead in the Spring of 2010: how did you use the time?
Fall Back
Daylight savings time ends tonight in Silicon Valley: we fall back to get the hour back we lost in the Spring.
Good Decision, Bad Outcome
“Good decision, bad outcome” is a a reminder to judge the quality of a decision by your process and state of information at the time you decided.
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Spend Some Time On How To Disprove Your Hypotheses
It’s often more fruitful to consider what evidence would disprove your hypotheses and what are the simplest things you could do to collect it?
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What To Do When An Early Prospect is Excited
Here is another excerpt from my September interview with Gabriel Weinberg. This one is focused on what to do when you encounter a B2B prospect who is excited about your product and this is only the first or second time this has happened with someone who wasn’t a friend or prior associate. The short answer
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Entrepreneurs Sign The Front Of A Paycheck
Entrepreneurs sign the front of a paycheck. They take prudent risks and create functional businesses that provide value to customers, employees, suppliers, investors, and partners.
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Read Mark Zimmerman’s Zhurnaly to Renew Your Gumption
Mark Zimmerman’s Zhurnaly (“Russian for Journal”) ) is food for the soul. The wiki format allows him to blend a journal, a runner’s diary, a commonplace book, and short essays. I enjoy his insights and his exploration Zen and ongoing self-improvement. It’s worth reading whenever you want to renew your gumption.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–October 2010
A collection of quotes of interest and use to entrepreneurs: these quotes for entrepreneurs were identified in October 2010.
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Knowledge That Is Not Written Down, Yet
There are categories of knowledge that are not written down, yet. They include observations that have not been curated but drive intuition-based decisions, first hand stories of events–successes and failures–that have not been filtered and sanitized but still offer insight and explanatory power. They are important because they are sources of competitive advantage. Knowledge That
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E-Mail Is Not a Conversation
E-mail is not a conversation. I have to remind myself of that from time to time. When emails are not leading to clarity, pick up the phone.
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Forming and Leading a Team of Experts at EL-SIG Oct 21
I have been invited to speak at the SDForum Engineering Leadership SIG next Thursday, October 21st. I will suggest methods for “Forming and Leading a Team of Experts” How can teams become more effective at making decisions quickly and reaching a working consensus? How can we as managers foster effective collaboration on teams made up
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Scope and Scale of Plans and Activities
Inspired by Eames’ “Powers of Ten” I explore the scope and scale of plans and activities based on duration. I take a one hour duration as the starting point and look at a factor or 10,000 in each direction: from 1/300 of a second to 10,000 hours.
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Entrepreneurs Still Welcome: 700 Blog Posts In Four Years
A recap of the inaugural blog post for SKMurphy blog 4 years ago and a roundup of lessons learned writing 700 posts since.
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Ash Maurya on “Running Lean”
Ash Maurya (@AshMaurya) has released the first two chapters of his new book “Running Lean” and here are my first impressions.
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Need Input on the Design Automation Conference
This is a solicitation for Input on the Design Automation Conference and how it can be improved.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–September 2010
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Mavericks, Iconoclasts, Dropouts and Misfits
“The truth is, start-up-land is littered with mavericks, iconoclasts, dropouts, and misfits.” Sramana Mitra in “The Real VCs of Silicon Valley” Entrepreneurship is Involuntary I have come to the conclusion that most entrepreneurship is involuntary. Either someone is an entrepreneur from the time they are young, which was my personal experience, or they are thrust
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Cold Calling Won’t Find Your First Business Customer
I meet teams trying to cold call for their first business customer and I just haven’t seen it work; the trust issues cripple them. Here is a relevant excerpt from Gabriel Weinberg’s interview with me for his traction book.
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The Limits of Legal Self-Help
If you have limited experience with business contracts or software licensing issues, legal self-help approaches can be very dangerous.
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“Work For Equity” Panel at SVCC Set For Sun-Oct-10 2:45pm
If you are considering joining a startup or are in the process of building out your initial team I am moderating a panel at Silicon Valley Code Camp with three startup CEO’s that you should find helpful. It’s scheduled for Sunday October 10 at 2:45pm and you can sign up here. We will explore: Practical
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