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
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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
Actively Manage Expectations With Clear Communications Always Assume Everything You Do Will Become Public Listen For What Isn’t Being Said Predictable Behavior Inspires Trust Trust Doesn’t Scale, It’s Knit by Aligning Actions With Prior Commitments Related Posts Honesty in Negotiations The Business is Everyone’s Business Conserving Trust in a Downturn Bouncing Back
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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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Tips For Modeling & Managing Cash Flow
A summary of tips for modeling and managing cash flow at a recent bootstrappers breakfast briefing by Rick Kadet.
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Ben Yoskovitz: Start with Passion For Solving a Problem
Ben Yoskovitz stresses the importance of starting with a passion for solving a problem, not evangelizing your solution.
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You Must Be Mistaken
It’s easy to tell someone that they are mistaken or wrong. It rarely encourages teamwork or useful dialog.
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Cash Management For Bootstrappers
The 2010 Silicon Valley economy continues to test bootstrapping entrepreneurs cash management skills. Here are tips for surviving a downturn.
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Please Suggest a Quote For Entrepreneurs
Originally published June 11, 2010 I mentioned last week that my “Startup Wisdom (2009) E-book” was available. I thought I would provide some more background on my interest in quotes and offer an incentive for my readers to “Suggest a Quote for Entrepreneurs” using my contact form. I have been collecting quotes for more than
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Innovation Needs Starvation, Pressure, and a New Perspective
Successful innovation results when entrepreneurs manage their own shortcomings, find a problem they care about, and approach it from different angles with small safe-to-fail experiments.
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Distant Early Warning Signs of Market Disruption
Disruption is caused by the new business models an innovation enables. A disruptive innovation can be hard to spot because competitors can offer a different value proposition, not necessarily a better one.
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Deprecating Facebook Part Two
I am deprecating my use of Facebook except for a small group of friends and family. On-line communities do not enable person to person trust to scale.
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Deprecating Facebook
I have decided that deprecating Facebook, migrating off of it as a social network, is the most prudent response to a series of actions by management. Because my decision is based on a lack of trust of the current leadership I will revisit it every six months or so to see if things have changed sufficiently
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