If entrepreneurs never daydreamed or planned ahead they would be uncreative and ineffective. But hurry inhibits awareness.
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When a little boy sees or hears a bird he appreciates it without having to label or identify it. It’s useful for entrepreneurs to engage in direct observation and thoughtful reflection without having to classify or characterize.
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Thanksgiving 2012 is a chance to reflect on all that I am grateful for: health, family, friends, and the opportunities I have been given.
Join us Friday 9am for a Bootstrapper Breakfast in Mountain View at Red Rock Coffee. A Bootstrapper Breakfast allows you to Take part in a serious roundtable conversation among bootstrapping entrepreneurs Compare notes and exchange ideas Learn from others’ mistakes Find potential business partners and co-founders With three work weeks left in 2012 it’s time to assess: lessons learned
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Preliminary Results From Research On Managing Creative Projects If you manage a firm that provides creative, design, or professional services you have to balance making a profit with investing in your team. If you are struggling to increase project profitability you may be interested in preliminary results from an ongoing research effort that has identified key
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Most successful products start in a niche and expand via a sequence of larger adjacent niches. Impatience for success works against learning.
Impatience For Success Works Against Learning Read More »
Always prepare a slide detailing a getting started plan or next steps for when a prospect says “This sounds great, how do we get started?”
Prepare Your “Getting Started” Plan Before A Prospect Asks For It Read More »
Sean Murphy joins the Fluxicon advisory board. The firm offers Business Process Management with process mining of data from IT systems.
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Evelyn Rodriguez envisions a Silicon Valley renaissance that blends a love of art, culture, place, and the divine spark alive and innate within us. Evelyn Rodriguez Envisions a Silicon Valley Renaissance of Art & Culture Among my other pursuits, I envision a Silicon Valley renaissance that brings a love of art, culture, place, and the
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You often must choose from alternatives that all have problems or to triage and identify where you efforts will have the most impact in a bad situation. Reconciling yourself to the “best bad plan” is a key skill for entrepreneurs.
Managing complexity and uncertainty was the focus of Dr Atul Gawande’s commencement address at Williams College on Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 (Reprinted in New Yorker as “Failure and Rescue“). The entire talk is worth reading and offers a medical case history as a compelling context for his points. “…the critical skills of the best surgeons
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While subsidizing entrepreneurs may produce startups, subsidizing startups will not produce entrepreneurs.
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Three excerpts from “Physics and Politics” that highlight impact of rapid change, value of perseverance, and importance of collaboration.
Three Insights from Walter Bagehot’s “Physics and Politics” Read More »
Innovation often obsoletes assumptions: when a business adopts a new technology to support a process it often changes political boundaries and alters existing relationships.
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Two excerpts from E. B. White‘s 1949 essay, “Here Is New York,” that I thought were also applicable to life in Silicon Valley.
Finding Silicon Valley in Two Passages from E. B. White’s “Here Is New York” Read More »
Our collaborative writing approach has no backstage: clients see our ugly early first drafts, but this “wiki style” collaboration allows rapid iteration.
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Growth is an outcome of impact. Focus on impact and innovation before investing efforts in growth. Once you have identified an opportunity to make an impact you can plan for growth.
Startups Should Focus on Impact and Innovation Before Growth Read More »
In the “Origin and Evolution of New Business” Amir Bhide advises startups to start with affordable bets in markets too small to interest large players.
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