William Eleazar Barton: The Fish and the Bait
“The Fish and the Bait” is a 1921 Safed the Sage story by William Eleazar Barton originally publish in April 14, 1921 in the Advance.
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Fifteen Quotes on Negotiation
Here are fifteen quotes that each communicate a different truth about negotiation. I have added some commentary to suggest how to apply them.
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Kierkegaard: Creativity Must Master Dread of the Unknown
Entrepreneurs can be paralyzed by the rich set of possibilities they face. It seems almost paradoxical that when you have one choice you can start immediately, when you have two you can flip a coin, but as possibilities multiply the desire to make the best choice can paralyze you. To fully embrace your creativity you
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Vuzop Offers Vision of IoT and BPM Integration
Steve Kilner and Sean Mann have put together a thought provoking vision of IoT and BPM integration in a video of capabilities they have developed as part of Vuzop.
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SKMurphy Mentor for Startup Weekend Nov-2016 at Santa Clara Univ.
I have been selected as a mentor for Startup Weekend Santa Clara Nov-11-2016; here are 5 ways that I plan to assist the teams of entrepreneurs taking part.
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Yodit Stanton on Why She Founded OpenSensors
Edited transcript of an interview with Yodit Stanton (@YoditStanton), CEO of OpenSensors, by Jenn Webb (@JennWebb) at Strata + Hadoop World 2015 “Make Data Work” in London. Yodit talks about what led her to found OpenSensors.
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Calvin Coolidge on The Declaration of Independence
Some excerpts from an address by President Calvin Coolidge at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926
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Lost Arts and Roads No Longer Taken
I have been working on my adjustments at the half for 2016 and thinking about lost arts and roads no longer taken. As much as we focus on creating and adopting new methods and technologies, it can be useful to consider capabilities that different societies have abandoned.
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OpenSensors Announces IoT University
OpenSensors today announced a new educational offering called “IoT University” that is designed to offer practical insights as the Internet of Things (IoT) is reaching maturity an wider deployment. Here are some details from their announcement
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Father’s Day 2016
Here is a miscellany of quotes and reflections on fatherhood triggered by Father’s Day 2016.
Quotes For Entrepreneurs May 2016
You can follow @skmurphy to get these quotes for entrepreneurs hot off the mojo wire or wait until they are collected in a blog post at the end of each month. These quotes for entrepreneurs were identified in May 2016. Enter your E-mail address if you would like to have new blog posts sent to
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Memorial Day 2016
On Memorial Day 2016 we commemorate those who have died in the service of our country. It’s a day of remembrance. I offer some quotes on death, heroism, and remembrance for you to meditate on.
Newsletter: Early Sales
Our May/June 2016 newsletter highlights early sales for entrepreneurs, who are motivated not by a quota but the need to meet payroll or otherwise keep their startup solvent.
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Texas Hold’Em as a Model for Technology Startups
Texas Hold’Em offers some useful models for technology startups: pick the right table (competitors) and understand how your cards best combine with common cards (the status quo and adjacent possible)
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Fred Brooks’ “No Silver Bullet” Revisited
Fred Brooks wrote “No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering” in 1987, 12 years after his “Mythical Man Month.” Both offer realistic perspectives on programming in particular and knowledge work in general.
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Jerry Weinberg interview
An interview with Jerry Weinberg where we explore the applicability of his Fieldstone Method for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, the implications of Stewart Brand’s “How Buildings Learn” for Weinberg’s dry stone fence metaphor for creation, and managing a crisis as marker for an end of an illusion.
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“Weinberg on Writing” Fieldstone Method Useful For Entrepreneurs
Gerald Weinberg wrote “Weinberg on Writing: the Fieldstone Method” to share many techniques he had perfected in writing more than 40 books and 400 technical articles. The method is very applicable to the exploration of a new market to find problem-solution fit and ultimately product-market fit.
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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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“Inner Game of Tennis” for Entrepreneurs
Timothy Gallwey’s “Inner Game of Tennis” came out in 1974 and sparked a revolution in coaching and how athletes should approach improving their performance. Entrepreneurs can use several lessons to improve their personal performance and coach others.
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Sunday Thoughts on Duty and Religion
Two long quotations, one from Henri Frederic Amiel in his Journal and the second from Benjamin Franklin’s “Letter To Ezra Stiles, 09 March 1790,” that explore duty and religion. A client recently lamented they had yet to find “the end of the rainbow, much less a pot of gold” and I was reminded of quote
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