Accidental Learnings from a Journeyman PM by Bill Seitz
Bill Seitz shares some of his learnings, so you can experience more “interesting” errors.
Founder Story
Andrey Oleksiuk on Managing an R&D Team in a War Zone
Andrey Oleksiuk, CTO at hOS, shares what he has been doing to keep his Ukrainian R&D team safe and productive during the Russian invasion.
Adam Starrh: have the courage to listen, cultivate mindfulness
An interview with Adam Starrh on lessons learned building a distribution network to sell California almonds and pistachios in India.
Startup Lessons Learned with Adam Verhasselt
We recently interviewed Adam Verhasselt, founder and creative director at Vlux Visual. He creates music visuals and augmented reality experiences to build brands from the ground up.
Founder Interview with Hmayak Tigranyan, founder of Buildern
Interview with Hmayak Tigranyan, founder of Buildern, a project management tools for the construction industry.
Michal Mazurek on Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Syften
A Q&A with Michal Mazurek, the founder of Syften, on lessons learned bootstrapping a monitoring and analytics startup.
Founder’s Journey: Lessons Learned with Cindi Thompson on Jun-9-21
Cindi Thompson, CEO and founder of Climate Companion, shares her entrepreneurial journey and lessons learned.
Sridhar Vembu: Capital is a group’s capability to meet its diverse needs
A review of two short essays by Sridhar Vembu that explore the meaning of capital as the capability of a group or population to meet its own diverse economic needs.
Tim Lombard Launches PCBevo, a Unique Analysis Tool for PCB Layout
An interview with Tim Lombard on a tool he has developed called PCBevo. PCBevo helps design engineers and layout designers track the co-evolution of the design specification and the layout of a Printed Circuit Board (PCB).
Hiten Shah: Four Lessons I Learned Squandering My Opportunity at KISSMetrics
In “My Billion Dollar Mistake” Hiten Shah shares four lessons he learned from the early successes and ultimate eclipse of KISSMetrics.
Scott Swaaley, Founder & CEO of MAKESafe Tools on SKMurphy’s Mastermind Group
Scott Swaaley: “The SKMurphy mastermind group has been my most consistently useful source of feedback and advice. Everyone knows my history, they have a broad swath of experience, and they help to keep me focused, productive, and moving in the right direction.”
SKMurphy Support Letter for Kinetic River SBIR
SKMurphy Support Letter for Kinetic River SBIR Wed-Sep-5-2018 I am writing to support the Kinetic River Phase II SBIR on a novel flow cytometry instrument. Since 2003 I have worked at SKMurphy, Inc. as a business development consultant for dozens of early stage technology startups. I have been an advisor to …
Scott Swaaley Launches MakeSafe Tools to Improve Workplace Safety
Scott Swaaley is on a mission with MakeSafe Tools to improve workplace safety. He has a unique skill set and a range of experiences that have allowed him to not only identify the need for a new category of low cost power tool safety devices but develop them and bring them to market.
CJ Cornell Deconstructs 7 Pieces of Lousy Advice For Entrepreneurs
CJ Cornell identified 7 pieces of commonly offered but lousy advice for entrepreneurs in “Great, Lousy Advice for Entrepreneurs.” Here is my take.
Mark Williamson, CTO of Hanzo Archives, on Validating Startup Ideas
Mark Hanzo, CTO of Hanzo Archives, was interviewed by SimpleWeb as part of a series on validating startup ideas. I found his remarks on very practical and insightful and have added some observations of my own.
Transcript From Elena Krasnoperova’s Learning Hacks for Bootstrappers
The following is an edited transcript of Elena Krasnoperova‘s “Learning Hacks for Bootstrappers” briefing at the Bootstrapper Breakfast on Fri-Dec-2-2016. She had a “cheat sheet” she handed out that is interleaved here in her remarks. We have added hyperlinks where they help to clarify or elaborate on her remarks.
Interview With Shane Reiser On Your Ideas Are Terrible
I ran into Shane Reiser (@ShaneReiser) at the Intrapreneur Conference in Silicon Valley and was impressed by his new startup (Your Ideas are Terrible) with cofounder Carie Davis to bring lean thinking to corporate innovation. What follows is a Q&A we conducted over email with hyperlinks added for context.
Founder Story: Steven Kim of edify.me
An interview with Steven Kim, founder of edify.me which provides very well written summaries of business and personal improvement books. I think his summary of the Lean Startup is by far the best and most useful, I profiled it last year in “E-Book Summary for Lean Startup”
Something Ventured: Make Money and Change the World for the Better
One documentary worth watching to get some context on the history of entrepreneurship and venture capital is “Something Ventured.” It’s a series of interviews with venture capitalists talking about their investments and their risk mitigation strategies in the 1950’s through 1970’s. It’s clear that they paid a lot of attention to “minimum viable products” and …
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Q: What Lessons Should I Draw From A Painful Cofounder Experience?
Painful cofounder experiences are more common than happy ones, and especially so when the parties don’t know each well to begin with and the business startup fails. Here is a real email exchange that explores some ways to minimize the risks.