Building Codes For Software
Some comments on Rich Skrenta’s observation: “I think it’s still a long time before we’ll have building codes for software.”
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Sketching The Likeness Of An Imaginary Business
Startups originate in the mind of an entrepreneur, often as the result of observing something that seems odd, or is the result of juxtaposing two or three seeming unrelated or even incongruous ideas. The first challenge the entrepreneur faces turn his insight into something others can critique and improve upon: to show them sketches of
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Founder Story Sam Wurzel, Octopart
This originally appeared in my “Entrepreneurial Engineer” column in EETimes as “Octopart helps nearly a half a million people find the part they need every month” on Mar-3-2011. I have added some additional hyperlinks in this version.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs–February 2012
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Associating, Pattern Matching, and Sensemaking
On Wed-Feb-22 at Noon PST the Book Club For Business Impact covered lessons learned applying a number of techniques for associating from chapter 2 of the “Innovator’s DNA” by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen.
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A Great Comment Can Brighten Your Whole Day
I have been really encouraged by some of the great comments I have received on some recent blog posts.
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Best Business Book of 2011: The Innovator’s DNA
Steve Hogan and Sean Murphy provide an overview of the Innovator’s DNA webinar series offered by the Book Club for Business Impact.
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Defining Your Benefit and Targeting a Set of Prospects
The primary challenge when you are first targeting a set of prospects for your product is to resist the urge of seeing the product as broadly applicable, instead focus narrowly where you bring strong benefit to get traction.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs–January 2012
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Customer Development Is Not Just For Startups
Customer development is not just for startups. We have Fortune 500 clients launching new products who rely on customer development methods.
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Three Useful Tools: MyPermissions, SocialMention, HackerFollow
This “time capsule” post from 2012 lists some useful tools like MyPermissions, SocialMention, and HackerFollow that are now defunct.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–December 2011
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Entrepreneurial Imagination
If we are to reach better days we need as much entrepreneurial imagination as possible applied to the hard challenges facing us.
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Merry Christmas 2011
Merry Christmas 2011: “It’s a whole year between Christmases, but it’s a short Christmas between years.” Ashleigh Brilliant Merry Christmas 2011 “It’s a whole year between Christmases, but it’s a short Christmas between years.” Ashleigh Brilliant “Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.” E. B. White in “Charlotte’s Web”
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December Bootstrapper Breakfasts Recap 2011 To Prepare for 2012
We have four Silicon Valley Bootstrappers Breakfasts® scheduled in the last two weeks of December. All of these Bootstrapper Breakfasts will feature a facilitated roundtable conversation among bootstrapping entrepreneurs, a chance to network before and after the formal meeting, and the opportunity to compare notes with other bootstrapping entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast. At a
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Zoom In For Traction, Zoom Out For Impact
Your startup is a work in progress. When most entrepreneurs evaluate where they are it’s difficult not to include the promising future they foresee naturally ensuing from current efforts (or on bad days the certain doom no matter what they do). If you are not getting traction, if you don’t have the ability to reliably
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Anne Rozinat of Fluxicon Joins Business Book Panel for “Second Economy”
Anne Rozinat of Fluxicon Joins Business Book Panel Discussing “The Second Economy” “Every so often—every 60 years or so—a body of technology comes along and over several decades, quietly, almost unnoticeably, transforms the economy: it brings new social classes to the fore and creates a different world for business…something deep is going on with information
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–November 2011
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Better Interfaces: Interview, Treemap, Tornado Chart
Innovative user interfaces have helped a number of products get adopted. These are three examples–interview, treemap, and tornado chart–may help to stimulate your thinking.
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Thanksgiving 2011
Reflections at Thanksgiving 2011: in the second half of my life, it’s time to appreciate all that I have and be more forthcoming in my gratitude to others.