Three Tests For Goals
Yesterday’s post talked about traction as the ability to set and hit goals. Here are three tests for goals to determine if they well-formed for your startup team.
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Pitching Hacks Has $20 Worth of Advice for Bootstrappers As Well
The Venture Hacks e-book “Pitching Hacks” offers good advice for entrepreneurs whether they are bootstrapping or seeking investment.
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Three Things I’ve Learned About Networking
Networking is good questions, listening, and helping others. Carry more than your own card. Connect folks who will benefit from talking.
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EDA Roundup: 100+ EDA Blogs, Jim Hogan, Wally Rhines
EDA Roundup: 100+ EDA Blogs, Jim Hogan, Wally Rhines 100+ EDA Blogs: I have updated the “Bloggers Covering Design Automation” list so that it now has over 100 listed. I think remain on track for 500 blogs by 2011 as I had predicted in “What Happens when 70 EDA Blogs Become 500 in 2011.”
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The Limits of Customer Relationship Management Systems
Customer relationship management is enabled by authentic human connection: conversation, hand crafted replies, and other person to person communication.
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Deep Roots Are Not Reached By the Frost
I found myself wandering on a dark road in the rain last night, looking for a meetup organized by Tatyana Kanzaveli that featured a talk by Rob Weltman on “Cloud Computing: Using the Open Source Hadoop to Generate Data-Intensive Insights.” The event was in a banquet room at the Samovar Deli at 1077 Independence Ave
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Spellr.us Is So Good That I Want To Pay For It
Spellr.us Is So Good That I Want To Pay For It I sent Kevin Garber an E-Mail yesterday afternoon “I love the product, I would like to pay for it.” I had spent about twenty hours in the last week cleaning up typo’s on www.skmurphy.com and www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com (first of all who knew that there were
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Other Customer Development Models
In “The Challenges of Measuring Non-Existent Markets” Scott D. Anthony outlines four principal challenges in measuring non-existent markets: Data does not yet exist. When a market doesn’t exist, there are no baseline market research reports or time-series data sets to analyze. Lack of comparable products. Without existing data, there is a natural tendency to look
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – January 2009
You can follow @skmurphy to get these quotes for entrepreneurs hot off the mojo wire or wait until the end of the month when they are collected on the blog. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Fewer of You Will Be Listening To Someone Else
I worked at Monolithic Memories from 1984 until 1988, in 1985 Irwin Federman, who was CEO at the time announced that the company was informally banning meetings on Fridays. It seemed reasonable to me and I thought it would probably make us more productive. A few weeks later he announced that the company was going
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William Feather on “Dead Business”
William Feather’s “Dead Business” details the stark differences between a going concern and all the agreements and understandings that have been reached to make it viable, and a bankrupt one.
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Three Most Popular Posts So Far
We have a little over 400 posts up on the blog since we started with “Welcome Entrepreneurs” on October 1, 2006. I thought I would offer some guidance to newer readers on which have been the most popular. I have looked at popularity through three lenses: feed clickthroughs, unique page views, and total page views.
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Backtype is a Useful Tool for Bloggers
One of the things I like to do is re-work and improve comments I have left in forums or on other blogs into posts on this blog. I have been using Backtype for a few weeks now and have found it useful for keeping track of other places I have commented. You need to register
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Marketing Consultants Forum at CNSV
I took part in a Marketing Consultants Forum at CNSV in 2009. My focus was on “Cultivating Communities to Get More Customers.”
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Drucker on Profit and Business Purpose
After thinking some more about yesterday’s post on entrepreneurial motivation I thought I would re-read some Peter Drucker, his clarity and prescience continue to impress me.
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Entrepreneurial Motivation
Tim O’Reilly offers three ways to sustain entrepreneurial motivation: work on what matters to you, create more value than you capture, and take the long view.
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EDAC CEO Forecast for 2009
I attended the EDAC 2009 CEO forecast tonight and what follows are some quick impressions. I got there just as the event started and the Lincoln High School String Quartet was playing one of the Brandenburg concertos, and playing it very well. Room J at the San Jose convention center has an 18′ high ceiling
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Looking Down the Money Trail at CSPA
Looking Down the Money Trail at CSPA I attended CSPA’s “Looking Down the Money Trail” tonight at Pillsbury in Palo Alto. Pillsbury hosts a number of entrepreneur oriented events and tonight their room was overflowing. One reason was that the event had a stellar panel: Steve Bengston, Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS), PricewaterhouseCoopers
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A Good LinkedIn Profile Is Important
One of the things that we always review with founders is their LinkedIn profile. It’s important for a several reasons: Prospects will check it either before they contact you or as they are doing more background checking on your company. The testimonials that are posted there have authenticated authorship and should also be posted on
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Fantastic On-Line Workshop on Wikis at CPSquare in January 2009
I attended a workshop put on by CPSquare in 2003 on Communities of Practice that had a profound impact on my worldview. I met folks from around the US who helped to foster communities of practice in corporate, education, government, and non-profit settings and was surprised at how common the both the challenges and methodologies
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