Don’t Miss the Silicon Valley Capturing Intellectual Property Workshop on Oct-19-2013; offered by Bill Meade of BascIP.
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We are reprising our “Working for Equity” CEO Panel for the fourth year at Silicon Valley Code Camp 2013. Here is the current write-up, we will be adding panelists’ bios in a few days.
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Remembering 9-11: I found this video very moving because it focused on the people and not the destruction. h/t Victory Girls Remembering 9-11 Take ten minutes to reflect on Sep-11-2001, a watershed event for the US in the 21st century that I have come to believe is a harbinger and not an outlier. Last year
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Skip Walter designed successful software products for over three decades. Here are 7 laws from his list of 18 laws of software development.
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Lisa Solomon says that an effective meeting can do one–and only one–of 3 things: build a common understanding, generate option, or make decisions. In this talk on “Designing Time: Make Meaning” she elaborates on this and challenges the person calling the meeting to work backward from the end of the meeting and define: what has
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Iterating an MVP until it’s good enough for government work only works if your customer is open to a co-development relationship.
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Documents major SKMurphy website upgrade in 2013, our first in seven years since we launched on WordPress in 2006.
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Some thoughts on college vs. startups, the panels are sliced up from “Students” by Randall Monroe. This is which is a dream that I still have. I find it a marker for being under pressure.
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Firms make a mistake when they treat email like a bullhorn, a tools for broadcast, instead of a walkie-talkie that enables a conversation.
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The Lego Box Presentation Method is to put meaning before detail. When Lego sells a Starfighter the picture on the box show it fully assembled, not the 560 multi-colored pieces and a collegiate dictionary-size book of assembly directions.
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A new startup is often driven by a desire for autonomy, self-expression, and lifelong learning. Or it’s a creative solution to a lack of alternatives. Albert Hirschman observed that “creativity always comes as a surprise to us” which led him to suggest “the only we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging
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The best product demo is a conversation driven by mutual curiosity. Don’t set your PowerPoints on stun. Your goal is to learn more about a prospect’s current situation and needs while they want to learn more about your product and services and how you can help them.
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Christopher Moore’s novel, Coyote Blue, is full of observations that I found very applicable to the entrepreneurial roller coaster.
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In the early market make it your mission to help your early customers. Providing value you can charge for will do more to gain traction than anything else.
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It’s time for another summer reading list, this year I am focused on ecosystem models: systems thinking informed by biological metaphors.
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Stripping the least useful third of the features requested allows you to deliver a 70 percent solution much more rapidly that’s often good enough.
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This is a time capsule from nine years ago. We worked part time on a side project we called ValencePoint from late 2003 until mid 2005. We used the technology internally with clients and at one point acted on a suggestion to make a funding presentation which led to the creation of this executive summary.
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