Pierre Khawand’s Results Curve
I like Pierre Khawande’s Results Curve model for managing interruptions and balancing focused work with time for collaboration.
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If We Killed Our Product Would You Miss It?
Don’t ask prospects, “If we killed our product would you miss it?” It’s product management malpractice.
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Deprecating Facebook 3: Marcelo Rinesi’s Perspective
This is the third in a series about my decision to move away from using Facebook. Deprecating Facebook means no longer trading hard won social knowledge for a trivially valuable way to communicate with people we already know.
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DreamSimplicity Interview Transcript
Here is the transcript–edited for clarity and hyperlinked for context–for my recent interview with Floyd Tucker of DreamSimplicity Marketplace. The focus was on our startup stages model: formation, open for business, early customers, finding a niche, and scaling up.
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Summer Reading For August 2010
Here are seven suggestions for good books for entrepreneurs for summer reading for August 2010; “Selling the Wheel” is a good place to start.
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Startup Business Development at July 20 Bootstrapper Breakfast
Mark Florant is giving a briefing on startup business development at the July-20-2008 Bootstrappers Breakfast at Coco’s in Sunnyvale, CA.
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Four Movies To Renew Your Gumption
Here are four movies to renew your gumption, I watch one when I need to refill my gumption or recover my sisu: The Verdict, Apollo 13, The Dish, and The World’s Fastest Indian.
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Ten Design Thinking Quotes From Marty Neumeier
Thanks to a retweet by Daniel McKenzie I stumbled across Marty Neumeier‘s twitter feed and discovered a stream of insights related to design thinking. I have selected my favorite ten.
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DreamSimplicity Interviews Sean Murphy
DreamSimplicity interviews Sean Murphy on the SKMurphy, Inc. startup stages model: formation, open for business, early customers, finding a niche, and scaling up.
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Fourth of July 2010
Fourth of July is when the Declaration of Independence was signed, America’s declaration to England that “You’re Not The Boss of Me Now.”
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–June 2010
You can follow @skmurphy to get these quotes for entrepreneurs hot off the mojo wire or wait until the end of the month when they are collected on the blog. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Moving Cash Into & Out of Your Bootstrapped Startup
Here are five tips for moving cash into and out of your bootstrapped startup.
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Classroom Habitudes Also Useful For Entrepreneurs
In “Classroom Habitudes,” Angela Maiers defines the six traits for successful learning as Imagination, Curiosity, Perseverance, Self-Awareness, Courage, and Adaptability. I think these habitudes should also be embraced by entrepreneurs.
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Finding a Co-Founder: 3 Months Is a Long Time
This post builds on my earlier “Finding a Co-Founder” and “Compromise & Get Started” posts on the challenges with finding a co-founder for your software startup. It assumes you are working at least part time with a potential co-founder exploring if you can collaborate successfully and generate revenue from a new jointly developed product or
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Finding A Co-Founder: Compromise & Get Started
Building on yesterday’s “Finding A Co-Founder” I want to identify a couple of common challenges to getting started with people you have had prior shared success with and offer some suggestions for how to compromise and get started working with them. Reconnect with Folks You Have Successfully Collaborated With I suggested the following approach: Make
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Treat Social Capital With the Same Care as Cash
Treat Social Capital With the Same Care as Cash
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The Half-Life of Wisdom
The half-life of information is six months. The half-life of wisdom is a lifetime. Plan accordingly. Many facts have a shorter half-life.
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Are You Generating iPad Fishbowl Leads?
Two years ago we asked the question “Are You Generating iPod Fishbowl Leads” I was reminded of this by a recent post by Simon Favre “You Can’t Give Stuff Away Fast Enough” about his recent experiences at DAC 2010 working in both the Global Foundries (GF) and TSMC booths.
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Kurt Keutzer on Engineering Entrepreneurship & EDA
Highlights from an interview with Kurt Keutzer as part of the 2010 Design Automation Conference. He uses Foster’s S-curve from “Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage” to offer perspective on EDA.
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Collecting Unpaid Bills
In 1995 I did some work for one of the early web startups in Palo Alto. They had delivered a number of database driven websites using a proprietary software technology that they had developed, and had sold the technology to several firms. But they had a problem collecting unpaid bills: they had not been paid
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