I was pleased to see that Verdafero, a firm we have been advising for about a year, was selected last Friday by the San Jose Business Journal for their “The Pitch” column. The article, “Palo Alto’s Verdafero Offers Sustainability Planning Over the Web,” ran in the February 5th print edition: THE BUSINESS: Verdafero has developed […]
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Update Feb-24-2011: Since I first wrote this in 2010 the Effectuation.Org site has been considerably upgraded and contains a lot more information on research on entrepreneurship by Saras Sarasvathy. Recapping ideas, papers, and books that had changed my life yesterday reminded me of Saras Sarasvathy’s Effectual Reasoning Model from her 2001 paper “What Makes Entrepreneurs
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This is a start articulating a set of resources for entrepreneurs that are for the most part not yet widely appreciated as applicable to entrepreneurship but that have had a significant impact on my perspective. I welcome any suggestions or lists from readers for what has influenced you, and opened you to new perspectives on your
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In “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” Jenny Allen speaks candidly about surviving cancer.
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Bootstrappers are well served to focus on recurring revenue and charging early: sustaining is more important than starting.
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I answered a question recently for real examples of teams using customer development approaches to software startups and drafted the following reply for two customer development examples.
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A riff on Yury Tsukerman’s observation about this blog: Sean Murphy– I don’t read him regularly, but I hear that I should.”
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Lindsay Robertson Do’s and Don’ts for On-Line Publicity Great post by Lindsay Robertson on “The Do’s and Don’ts of Online Publicity, For Some Reason” where she lists nine rules of thumb for getting publicity. Here were my top three from here list, but read the whole thing piece: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE means FOR IMMEDIATE DELETE
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Second day at the Foresight 2010 conference on “Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)”
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A roundup of some very thought provoking presentations from the first day of the Foresight 2010 conference. Interesting predictions include a $100 DNA test.
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I will be at the Foresight 2010 conference on “Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)” this weekend and hope to blog some of the better sessions and anything else I learn. There is a twitter hashtag “#Foresight2010” you can use to follow conference tweets and the talks will also be broadcast on
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Recapping on my earlier “Federated Entrepreneurship” post from January 5. A federation is a union of partially self-governing units with a constitution that does not allow unilateral changes by a central governing body. I think it’s also a good model for what’s required to create an economically dynamic region. One parallel would be to a
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Profiles of three useful search tools that I use on a regular basis as a complement to Google:: Keskese, Surf Canyon, and WhosTalkin.
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Federated entrepreneurship was a phrase that William Krause used to explain 3Com’s model for management and innovation when he was CEO. Federation comes from a Latin word foedus for covenant or treaty and describes a union of partially self-governing units with a constitution that does not allow unilateral changes by a central governing body. It
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My New Years Day 2010 post encourages a search for opportunity, inspired by Helen Keller’s observation when one door closes, another opens to.
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It’s a good idea to do customer development in parallel with product development: talk to prospects, surveys are not enough.
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Appreciative Inquiry offers a solid approach for early customer interviews.Ask, “What’s working and what problems do you have?”
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We have added two Holiday Bootstrapper Breakfasts in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. This year Christmas and New Year’s Day fell on the fourth Friday and first Friday of the month which collided with two regularly scheduled breakfasts (which have been canceled). Which means that we will have a total of four
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