Sweet Treat
A wonderful note from Henna Inam, a happy client. It was included in a box that contained a sweet treat, tin of cookies, as a thank you.
SKMurphy customer references
This category is used for references and case studies provided by clients of SKMurphy, Inc.
Cision Humor Award for our Newsletter
I am excited to be awarded the Cision Humor Award for a November newsletter that I did.
Walt Maclay: SKMurphy Has Contributed Significantly to Our Growth
We have been supporting Walt Maclay and the team at Voler Systems, Inc. since 2008. In that time they have increased revenue by a factor of 8. Walt looked back at how we have supported Voler and thanked us for making a significant contribution to Voler’s growth over the last decade.
Building WordPress Websites
Three reasons I like building WordPress websites: they are cost effective, they are scalable, and they easily support search engine optimization.
Benefits of SKMurphy Mastermind for Entrepreneurs
An SKMurphy Mastermind Group is an ongoing series of facilitated conversations among serious entrepreneurs. It enables collaboration on problems and opportunities and fosters joint accountability around effective ongoing action.
Traffic Parrot Press Release: Bestow Selects Traffic Parrot
We have been working with the team at Traffic Parrot for more than four years, it’s gratifying to have a customer agree to a public endorsement and while Bestow was not Traffic Parrot’s first customer, they were the first to agree to be quoted.
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.”
Wine Management Systems Acquired by Process2Wine
Following a successful partnership announced in January of 2018 Process2Wine has announced the acquisition of Wine Management Systems. Sean Murphy of SKMurphy, Inc. assisted Wine Management Systems in preparing for the partnership and acquisition negotiations.
Sean Murphy Joins the LeanStack Mentor Community of Practice
Sean Murphy, a consultant with SKMurphy, Inc. has joined the LeanStack Mentor community of practice and will use the LeanStack toolkit as appropriate when working with bootstrapping startups.
Yodit Stanton on “The Internet of Things: a New Evolution for Business”
Three thought provoking trends in a recent interview on “The Internet of Things: A new evolution for business” with Yodit Stanton, CEO of OpenSensors, by Joyce Shen, Global Director of Emerging Technologies for Thompson Reuters.
Client in the News: Walt Maclay Speaks at HardwareCon 2017
Recently we helped a client, Walt Maclay of Voler Systems, get a speaking assignment at a popular conference. We drafted and submitted the talk proposal, developed the major outline and main points for the talk content, researched and created charts and diagrams, and preformed dry runs to help him prepare.
Yodit Stanton: How cities can learn from a start-up
Yodit Stanton’s “How cities can learn from a start-up” article was published July 25, 2017 on the “The Network” Cisco’s online news site.
BeamWise Optical System Design Workflow Profiled in Laser Focus World
The BeamWise team contributed an article to the May 2017 issue of Laser Focus World that highlighted the coherent workflow for optical system design provided by BeamWise.
Have a Holly Jolly IoT-Enabled Holiday
Theresa Shafer came up with a clever reconceptualization of a common logo for Wifi as a Christmas tree for the OpenSensors holiday greeting: “Have a Holly Jolly IoT-Enabled Holiday.”
IVALA Joins Forces With VIN
I am delighted that Taimur Alavi and the team at IVALA are joining forces with VIN the Veterinary Information Network. They have bootstrapped a significant amount of progress and I think VIN will provide the resources to accelerate not only the development of innovative applications and their reputation for excellence will encourage the spread of IVALA’s technology into …
Clients In The News: Elevate Acquires Legal OnRamp
One of our long time clients, Legal OnRamp, has been acquired by Elevate Services. A visionary company has been acquired by a market leader. I had met the CEO, Paul Lippe, when he was General Counsel at Synopsys and ran into him at a Churchill Club dinner in late 2005 as he was starting what became …
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eMOBUS Acquisition: How Bootstrappers Close Deals
The Palo Alto Bootstrapper Breakfast® on Fri-May-6 features Moe Arnaiz, CEO of eMOBUS, and Mathieu Guilmineau, CTO of eMOBUS. They are going to share lessons learned bootstrapping eMOBUS through several evolutions in service model and technology infrastructure to a recent acquisition by Asentinel.
Verdafero Adds Predictive Analytics
Verdafero adds predictive analytics to enable commercial property owners to forecast utilities costs for individual buildings or a portfolio.
I love emails like this (Warning: Shameless Self-Promotion)
Here is a recent email I got from Walt Maclay, an SKMurphy, Inc. client since 2008. It includes an email from one of Voler’s partners congratulating him on the February newsletter. As our partner Peter Cohan often says, “Warning: shameless self-promotion.”
TaroWorks 4.2 Launches
TaroWorks announced version 4.2 with this overview video and has scheduled a webinar on Wed-Nov-18-2015 at 10am ET to provide more details and answer questions. Key improvements are the ability to specify context-specific menu options and richer validation of free form input, including bar code scan values.