Younger entrepreneurs bring several advantages to startups: a willingness to innovate, tolerance for failure, and a native facility with new technologies. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Lost in an all too frequent age discrimination promoted by many investors are some key advantages older entrepreneurs can offer a B2B startup: connections and social capital that can find early customers, domain knowledge, and patience.
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Here is the outline and slides from my talk at SFBay ACM on “Limits of I’ll Know it When I see it” about the fundamentals in applying expertise effectively.
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I offered a Startup Maturity Checklist session at Code Camp Sun-Oct-4-2009. It was well attended: we reviewed all of the checklist items.
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Just a reminder I am speaking tomorrow night at the SFBay ACM on “The Limits of ‘I Will Know It When I See It” tomorrow night, Wednesday September 16, at 6:30pm. More information here http://www.sfbayacm.org/?p=741 Location: Hewlett Packard, Oak Room Auditorium Bldg. 48, 19447 Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014 Cost: Free and open to the
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I first met Terry Frazier at the Accelerating Change Conference in 2003 and within five minutes we had progressed from small talk to a serious conversation about the future of information technology and I knew he was someone I needed to keep track of. I am way overdue in recognizing him as a partner and
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Take a minute to recall 8 years ago: September 11, 2001. Here are some suggestions for translating painful memories into positive action.
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It’s hard to remember a state of complete confusion. I had dropped my boys off at school and was listening to one of least funny morning comedy routines that I had heard in a while. Something about the airport but I couldn’t make any sense of it. We were scheduled to fly to St. Louis
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I blogged about mass E-Mails in “Please Take Me Off Of Your E-Mail Distribution List” in Sep-2007 but I got the following E-Mail recently which gave me some pause (names change to protect the repentant). Hi Sean, How is your summer going? Things are going great here at [XYZ Co]–in the past couple of quarters
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High availability is often expressed as “nines”, or the percentage of availability in a year. Six nines is 99.9999% uptime or no more than 31.5 seconds of downtime in a year.
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I’ve known Nanette Collins for 20 years and am glad she took me up on my offer of a guest blog on volunteering and managing volunteers.
Nanette Collins On Volunteering: Lessons Learned from the Trenches Read More »
Here are my key takeaways from a thought-provoking panel at DAC09 on “Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current?”
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A couple of high level impressions. Here my notes from the “Managing Project Health” BoF at DAC 2009. After sitting through the presentations back to back I saw the outline of a four layer model for design management data stability – essentially what companies like Cliosoft or open source tools like CVS offer provisioning –
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I suggested that the “Managing Project Health” Birds of a Feather was one of the “Opportunities for Serious Conversation at DAC 2009” and it proved to be a very thought provoking session. When design teams try and assess “Project Health” they are normally trying to determine where they are (or what’s been accomplished and what
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DAC 2009 Blog Coverage Roundup See DAC 2010 Blog Coverage Roundup for 2010 Roundup. Update 2026: I am sorry but all of the links to the DAC site for 2009 events are not available from Archive.org or other sites. There is a DAC archive for 2009 that has a PDF for the final program at
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Bouncing back from a setback is a challenge that entrepreneurs need to navigate repeatedly. Bouncing Back On Hacker News about 18 months ago someone posted a question on “Dealing with Post Startup Depression” that read I recently shut down my first startup ever. I am having a really tough time getting over it and starting
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This was originally published as “Impact of Social Media Tools on the Speed of Team Decision Making” in the July 14 DACEzine. I am re-publishing it here as a reminder for the “Tweet, Blog or News: How Do I Stay Current?” Pavilion Panel tomorrow Wednesday July 29, 4:00 – 5:00pm at the Design Automation Conference. One
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