Mike Maples on Pattern Breakers
Mike Maples offers rules of thumb for entrepreneurs who want to build successful startups in his book “Pattern Breakers.”
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Marshall McLuhan: How To See The Future
Some thoughts from Marshall McLuhan and others on how to see the future when the past, spread out before us, is all we see.
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Seth Godin: This is Strategy, Make Better Plans
With “This is Strategy, Make Better Plans,” Seth Godin has written a well-crafted and delightfully practical book on strategy that brings a systems perspective to planning.
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Quiet and Reflection Support Effective Action
Make time for quiet and reflection to support effective action: stay engaged and maintain situational awareness but take stock periodically.
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Q: How do I tell if I am scaling prematurely?
It’s possible that you are scaling prematurely, but it’s become a catch all risk that bears more scrutiny. This conversation is condensed from a real email exchange with an entrepreneur
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Harbinger or Outlier, Vision or Mirage, Threat or Opportunity
It’s hard to see things as they are and as they will become. Distinguishing between vision or mirage is a perpetual challenge for the entrepreneur.
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Jordan Peterson: Benchmark Yourself Against Your Past Self
Excerpts from “Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not Someone Else Is Today” chapter of “12 Rules for Life” by Jordan Peterson.
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Wolfgang Huber Describes Bootstrapping Matrix Requirements
Wolfgang Huber offers lessons learned from bootstrapping Matrix Requirements into leader in medical device documentation software.
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Quick Take: Scaling Up a Small Team
Scaling up a small team in a bootstrapped startup can present some unanticipated challenges. Here are some things to watch out for.
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Alex Panait on Current Trends and Possible Futures for AI
I had a thought-provoking conversation with Alex Panait of Mission Automate on current trends and possible futures for AI applications.
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Learn From Other Entrepreneurs’ Mistakes
Learn from other entrepreneurs’ mistakes, you don’t have enough time to make them all on your own.
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Delegating Enables Growth: A Solo Founder’s Experience
Some lessons learned on how delegating enables growth, shared by a solo founder who is now scaling his business with contractors.
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In Sales, Act Like a Doctor
Startup founders can greatly enhance their effectiveness if they act like a doctor: elicit symptoms, offer a diagnosis, suggest a prescription and provide a prognosis.
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The Messy Order of Robust Communities
Robust communities have a messy order: they have to evolve so they cannot be designed along neat hierarchical lines. Whether you are planning a supplier ecosystem or a user group one marker for robustness is messy order: there is some organization but it’s not cleanly hierarchical.
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Entrepreneurship is a Marathon, Change Your Pace to Recharge
Entrepreneurship is a marathon, or at least a long roller coaster ride, not a sprint. Add recharge time to your regular activities.
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God’s Debris: Scott Adams Meditation on the Noosphere
Scott Adams offers practical heuristics for living in “God’s Debris.” You don’t have to accept his cosmology, which I interpreted as an updated conceptualization of De Chardin’s Noosphere, to extract a number of useful insights.
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Seven Tips for Taking Full Advantage of a Conference
Here are seven tips for taking full advantage of a conference: how to prepare, planning your schedule, effective networking, taking notes, and following up.
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Treat Your Spouse As An Investor
Here are ten rules of thumb for treating your spouse as an investor in your startup and some tips on conversations to have before you commit.
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Chalk Talk: Sarasvathy’s Effectuation Model for Startups
This chalk talk on Saras Sarasvathy’s effectuation model for startups outlines an approach that successful entrepreneurs use to establish and grow their startups. This approach is the most effective one that I have seen.
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Guide to Silicon Valley Startup Events
Many digital nomads and travelers to Silicon Valley are looking for good networking events to meet and compare notes with other founders. This guide gives an overview of networking and startup events in Silicon Valley.
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