Take a Minute to Recall 8 Years Ago Part 2
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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Take a Minute to Recall 8 Years Ago
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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Send Personal E-Mail
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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Achieving “Six Nines” When You Launch
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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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – August 2009
Quotes for entrepreneurs fired point blank on http://www.twitter.com/skmurphy; you can catch these quotes for entrepreneurs on the blog at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Nanette Collins On Volunteering: Lessons Learned from the Trenches
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.
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Impressions From DAC09 Panel on “Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current?”
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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Project Health BoF at DAC2009 Recap
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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Managing Project Health Birds of a Feather at DAC 2009
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
DAC 2009 Blog Coverage Roundup See DAC 2010 Blog Coverage Roundup for 2010 Roundup. Sunday Events Daniel Payne on Sunday at DAC – What really happens in the Press Room? Grant Martin on “Day Zero of DAC…Welcome Reception“ Richard Goering on “Gary Smith’s Prescription for Explosive Growth“ Frank Schirrmeister on “#46DAC Is On The Way…With
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Bouncing Back
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
Quotes for Entrepreneurs – July 2009
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Social Software Speeds Team Decision Making
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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Three Roundtables on Global Teams at DAC 2009
Questions we will cover in three roundtables on “Global Teams and Multi-Firm Collaboration” at Design Automation Conference 2009.
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Maintaining Perspective on the Entrepreneurial Roller Coaster
We had a great Bootstrapper Breakfast® in Sunnyvale this morning. One of the comments from an entrepreneur who was doing his first venture and making good progress was that he hadn’t anticipated how much of an emotional roller coaster doing a startup was with “higher highs and lower lows” than his earlier jobs.
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Does Your Website Say Copyright 2008?
As a part of looking for new EDA blogs we did a scan of all the DAC exhibitors and found about two dozen that had a copyright of 2008 (or earlier). Just a thought, check your site and see if you need to update a header or footer for outdated information.
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1994 List of Net Resources for the EDA User
May 11, 1994 I published this “List of Net Resources for the EDA User” in “Radio Free CAD CAE Issue 4.” It’s an interesting time capsule.
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Sign-up for Software Startup Checklist Seminar at Silicon Valley Code Camp
With Athol Foden‘s encouragement I have submitted the following session (links added) for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp: Software Startup Maturity Checklist This session is for both aspiring and active entrepreneurs. We will walk through a 36 point checklist that covers Product Development, Customer Development, and Business Operations. You will leave with a better
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The Limits of “I Will Know It When I See It”
Both engineering and entrepreneurship alternate exploration and verification cycles to develop a solution that satisfies a customer’s need. Both of these rely on the scientific method of “observation, hypothesis formation, prediction, and experimentation” to develop and validate testable theories, engineering solutions, and profitable products. Both require that a new configuration or an opportunity be recognized
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A Conversation with Ed Lee on the Changing Media Landscape for EDA
Ed Lee and I walk around the changing media landscape for EDA: it’s a complex and evolving situation that we share our perspectives on.
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