Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in November 2025
A collection of quotes for entrepreneurs curated in November 2025 around a theme of subtraction and organized abandonment.
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Thanksgiving 2025: Thanks-Living
On Thanksgiving 2025 we find ourselves just shy of a quarter of the way into the Twenty-First Century. What visions the new century inspired in me as a boy in the 1960s.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in October 2025
A collection of quotes for entrepreneurs curated in October 2025 around a theme of managing doubt, fear, uncertainty, and stress.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in September 2025
A collection of quotes for entrepreneurs curated in September 2025 around a theme of time.
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A Roundtable with Front Line Managers at IEEE-TEMS
Insights from a roundtable with front line managers at IEEE-TEMS: trust, empathy, expertise, and AI skills will all be important in 2026.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in August 2025
A collection of quotes for entrepreneurs curated in August 2025 around a theme of insomnia, sleeplessness, and working all night.
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Suchita Kaundin on our Market Exploration Bootcamp
Suchita Kaundin left a nice comment on LinkedIn about the value of the SKMurphy Market Exploration Bootcamp that I have preserved here.
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Ravindranath Ange Veetil on Working Capital Volume 1
I met Ravindranath Ange Veetil at a Bootstrappers Breakfast. He was kind enough to post this review of “Working Capital Volume 1: It takes more than money.”
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If At First You Don’t Succeed
Some variations on a theme around “If At First You Don’t Succeed.” Some humor for entrepreneurs spend a lot of time “not succeeding.”
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in July 2025
A collection of quotes for entrepreneurs curated in July 2025 around a theme of reflection and retrospection.
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12 Books for the Busy Founder
This talk is for a busy founder facing the challenges of exploring ideas and achieving product-market fit with ten to fifteen paying customers.
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Matthew McConaughey offers a playbook in “Greenlights”
Matthew McConaughey mines 35 years of his personal journal entries to offer a playbook for entrepreneurs in “Greenlights.”
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Independence Day, 2025
Four quotes related to Independence Day 2025, July-4-2025,
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in June 2025
A collection of quotes for entrepreneurs curated in June 2025 around a theme of growth, expansion, and scaling up.
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Shifting from Specialist to Founder
Shifting from technical specialist to founder brings a bottom line responsibility and the need to manage a host of new challenges.
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Scott Galloway: Entrepreneurs Sign the Front of the Check
In a candid interview with Betty Liu, Scott Galloway makes a number of insightful observations. The key one is that the requisite for being an entrepreneur is a willingness to sign the front of the check–not the back–for the pleasure of working their ass off in their own company. Most people understand that theoretically, but
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Account Review Meetings Drive Startup Growth
Startup entrepreneurs should conduct account review meetings to stay close to customers, drive revenue, and build a repeatable business.
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Build a Cannon to Kill a Mosquito with Mani Doraisamy
Mani Doraisamy offered an excellent perspective for technical founders how to bootstrap a product using a product led growth model.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs Curated In May 2025
A collection of quotes for entrepreneurs curated in May 2025 around a theme of seeing the invisible and uncovering the obscure.
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Building and Leveraging a Partner Network
A startup begins with limited resources and credibility. Building and leveraging a partner network will add capabilities and spur growth.
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