Sean Murphy

Dutch Business Breakfast at US Market Access Center

I had the opportunity to attend a “Dutch Business Breakfast” that morning. It was organized by the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and held at the US Market Access Center. There were three speakers who addressed the challenges of European firms coming to Silicon Valley, followed by individual presentations by about a dozen Dutch startups. Chris …

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Crucial Marketing Concepts for Technology Introduction at SF Bay ACM Wed 11-14-2007

I will be giving a presentation next week at the SF Bay ACM on “Crucial Marketing Concepts for Technology Introduction.” The event starts at 6:30 next Wednesday, November 14. It will be held in the Oak Room of Bldg 48 at Hewlett Packard, which is at the corner of Pruneridge and Wolfe in Cupertino (or …

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Joseph A. Murphy (1925-2007)

My father died suddenly of a heart attack at home in St. Louis last night with my mother and brother present. He had been to see his internist that morning and gotten a clean bill of health. He would have been 82 in a week.

Three Phrases Prospects Should Not Find On Your Website

Please Come Back Soon accompanied by a promise of more information shortly. If you do, don’t put a date next to it because when that date is three months old prospects get a “lost dial tone” sensation, they are not sure your firm is still active. Variations that are equally annoying: Please check back soon …

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You’ve Launched, Now What? at KASE/KIN Oct 16

I will be speaking on “Now What? Your Post Launch Growth Plan” at the KASE / KIN Entrepreneur Academy tomorrow night. Location: KIICA Silicon Valley at 3003 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 Agenda 5:50PM – 6:00PM Registration and Networking 6:00PM – 6:30PM Successful Entrepreneur – Paul Tien 6:30PM – 6:45PM Break 6:45PM – …

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Founder’s Story: Rick Munden of FMF & Epiphyte

I first met Rick Munden more than a decade ago when we were both managers attending an Electronic Design Process workshop. I ran into him last December at an SDForum Emerging Technologies SIG meeting and we renewed our acquaintance. I invited him to our Bootstrapper’s Breakfast since he was mulling his new company Epiphyte. This …

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Triples, Inspired by Dorai Thodla

Inspired by Dorai Thodla’s “Triples and Congruence.” Budget, Quality, Time (project parameters aka “Iron triangle” pick any two, solve for third) Expert/Technician, Manager, Entrepreneur (E-Myth roles in a business) Beginning, Middle, End (elements of a story) Early Adopters, Mainstream, Laggards (measures of risk aversion in a population) Team, Technology, Traction (VC tests for quality of …

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Bob “GoDaddy” Parson’s Rules for Business Success

Bob Parsons of GoDaddy blogged his “16 Rules for Success in Business (and Life in General)” in July of 2006. A question he received at a 2004 speaking event–“What advice do you have for someone who is just starting a business?”–kicked off an effort by the serial entrepreneur to codify the principles he was living …

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Paul Miller to Speak Future of CMP Support for EDA Companies at EDAC Wed-Sep-26

EDAC has announced a program for Wed-Sep-26 on “The Future of Media and What it Means to EDA Companies.” So far so good, but they’ve invited the crew that laid off Richard Goering. I am much more interested in getting advice from the team that hired him. The EDAC announcement reads (links added) Paul Miller, …

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