Gloria Murphy 1926-2017
My mother, Gloria Murphy, had a heart attack Thursday night and died about 8 feet from where my father had a heart attack a decade ago.
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A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product
A common evolution for a startup’s offering is service to system integration to product. Here is an explanation for the reasons and benefits.
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Scouting a Promising Market: Sending Spies Into Canaan
The difference between scouting a new market and scouting a promising market is that the former may not exist–or come into existence–while the latter clearly exists because it’s already occupied.
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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.
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John Cutler on Product Management Lessons Learned
Key product management lessons learned extracted from two blog posts by John P. Cutler: “50 Things I’ve Learned About Product Management” and “Feedback Loops and Done.“
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Chip Conley: Reconceive Bewilderment As Curiosity
Chip Conley shares how he was able to look at AirBNB’s operation with newcomer’s eye when he chose to reconceive bewilderment as curiosity.
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Q: Is a Focus on Inefficiencies a Good Way to Find an Underserved Market?
A focus on inefficiencies is a good method to find a underserved market where you can bootstrap you way to viability. Here is a list of several others.
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Q: Should I Be an Entrepreneur?
How do you answer someone who asks “Should I be an entrepreneur?” We ask, “Are you committed to self-improvement and to providing value?”
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Brent Beshore: 5 Habits To Cultivate That Enable Success
Brent Beshore recently shared an email he had sent to a college seniors that outlined five habits to cultivate for success. In a nutshell they are industry, humility, kindness, learning continually, and taking notes.
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Newsletter July 2017: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Our July 2017 Newsletter focused on key insights for entrepreneurs offered by Robert Pirsig in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. If you have not had a chance to read it I would encourage you to put it on your summer reading list.
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8 Tactics For Entrepreneurs From “The Pragmatic Programmer”
Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas wrote “The Pragmatic Programmer” in 1999; it offers a number of insights that are still applicable not only to software development but software entrepreneurship. I have distilled 8 tactics from a selection of 25 tips (out of more than 70 in the book).
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No Safety in Numbers
This post applies the moral of James Thurber‘s “The Fairly Intelligent Fly”–that there is “no safety in numbers, or in anything else”–to entrepreneurship.
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A Summary of Max Gunther’s “The Zurich Axioms” for Entrepreneurs
Max Gunther’s “The Zurich Axioms” is aimed at investors but also offers valuable insights and rules of thumb for entrepreneurs.
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Father’s Day 2017
A collection of quotes and stories related to fathers and fatherhood for Father’s Day 2017.
Embrace Parkinson’s Law As A Constraint
Some entrepreneurs fall into the trap of working long hours as an end in itself. Parkinson’s Law warns us that work without limits can consume your life.
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Ogden Lilly 1948-2017
Ogden Lilly passed away suddenly on Sun-May-14-2017. He worked as an accountant for 47 years at a firm that ultimately added his name to the masthead. I have relied on his advice and counsel for more than two decades and feel his loss keenly on a personal and a professional level.
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Five Insights from Devora Zack’s “Networking For People Who Hate Networking”
Devora Zack wrote “Networking For People Who Hate Networking” to help introverts improve their network skills. She offers a number of insights along with several worksheets, checklists, and exercises to help you prepare, practice, and reflect.
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Jeff Allison: How To Blend New Capability and New Product Development
Jeff Allison offers a June-1-2017 briefing on how to blend new capability development and new product development. Innovation requires experimentation that allows for the possibility of failure but the whole point of creating a program commitment process is to avoid failure.
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Newsletter April 2017: Update Your Goals Based On Results
It’s time to update your goals based on results to date. 2017 is now well underway and some goals you set for Q1 may need to be revisited and perhaps dropped or rescheduled for this quarter. Here is what happened in Q1 and what we have planned for Q2.
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Innovation Inside an Organization Requires Balancing Priorities
It always seems simpler to be able to start with a blank slate, and even better to be given just one project so that you can focus, but the reality is that innovation inside an organization requires balancing priorities.
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