Three Good Books for Consultants
Here are three good books for consultants that I routinely recommend: “Trusted Advisor”, “Secrets of Consulting”, and “Rainmaking.”
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Lenny Greenberg of Assistyx at Milpitas Bootstrappers Breakfast Friday
Lenny Greenberg, a serial entrepreneur and frequent Bootstrappers Breakfast® attendee will lead our discussion this Friday about taking a long term view in business. All too often high-tech companies don’t take a long term view of their product. In the initial rush to get something to someone, companies may make tactical product choices that may
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“Startup Maturity Checklist” Slides From Today’s SVCC Session
I very much enjoyed the opportunity to present our startup stages model and the “Software Startup Maturity Checklist” at Silicon Valley Code Camp today. I have posted the slides here.
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Three Advantages of Younger Entrepreneurs in B2B Startups
Younger entrepreneurs bring several advantages to startups: a willingness to innovate, tolerance for failure, and a native facility with new technologies. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Three Advantages of Older Entrepreneurs in B2B Startups
Lost in an all too frequent age discrimination promoted by many investors are some key advantages older entrepreneurs can offer a B2B startup: connections and social capital that can find early customers, domain knowledge, and patience.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – September 2009
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Slides from “Limits of I’ll Know It When I See It” Talk at SFBay ACM
Here is the outline and slides from my talk at SFBay ACM on “Limits of I’ll Know it When I see it” about the fundamentals in applying expertise effectively.
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Startup Maturity Checklist Session Sun-Oct-4 1pm at SV Code Camp
Athol Foden‘s encouragement I have submitted the following session (links added) for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp has now finalized the session schedule and my Software Startup Maturity Checklist session is set for Sunday, October 4 at 1pm in Room 5501. The description follows: This session is for both aspiring and active entrepreneurs. We
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Getting More Customers – A 90-day Plan
Update Tue-Oct-20: we are sold out, no walk-ins accepted. Saturday October 24 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) Pacific Business Center 1250 Oakmead Pkwy Suite 210 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 501-8800 Click here to Register: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jcqtg We will cover a variety of proven marketing techniques for growing your business: attendees will select one or
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Reminder: Limits of “I Will Know It When I See It” at SFBay ACM Sep-16-2009
Just a reminder I am speaking tomorrow night at the SFBay ACM on “The Limits of ‘I Will Know It When I See It” tomorrow night, Wednesday September 16, at 6:30pm. More information here http://www.sfbayacm.org/?p=741 Location: Hewlett Packard, Oak Room Auditorium Bldg. 48, 19447 Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014 Cost: Free and open to the
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Recognizing Terry Frazier as a Partner and Advisor
I first met Terry Frazier at the Accelerating Change Conference in 2003 and within five minutes we had progressed from small talk to a serious conversation about the future of information technology and I knew he was someone I needed to keep track of. I am way overdue in recognizing him as a partner and
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Take a Minute to Recall 8 Years Ago Part 2
I came across a great way to translate 9/11 memories into action by James Lileks in Brian Dunbar’s “Remember” Remember. But move forward, too. Light a candle, yes. But also drive a rivet. It’s from a longer post Lileks wrote on Sep-13-2004 looking back on 9/11. Here are the closing paragraphs. I had thought about
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Take a Minute to Recall 8 Years Ago
It’s hard to remember a state of complete confusion. I had dropped my boys off at school and was listening to one of least funny morning comedy routines that I had heard in a while. Something about the airport but I couldn’t make any sense of it. We were scheduled to fly to St. Louis
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Send Personal E-Mail
I blogged about mass E-Mails in “Please Take Me Off Of Your E-Mail Distribution List” in Sep-2007 but I got the following E-Mail recently which gave me some pause (names change to protect the repentant). Hi Sean, How is your summer going? Things are going great here at [XYZ Co]–in the past couple of quarters
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Achieving “Six Nines” When You Launch
High availability is often expressed as “nines”, or the percentage of availability in a year. Six nines is 99.9999% uptime or no more than 31.5 seconds of downtime in a year.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – August 2009
Quotes for entrepreneurs fired point blank on http://www.twitter.com/skmurphy; you can catch these quotes for entrepreneurs on the blog at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Nanette Collins On Volunteering: Lessons Learned from the Trenches
I have known Nanette Collins for the better part of two decades and was delighted when she took me up on my offer of a guest blog on volunteering and managing volunteers. She is the principal at Nanette V. Collins Marketing and PR with offices in Boston and San Francisco and one the web at
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Bootstrapper’s Breakfast Announces Roundtable Conversation on Early Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make
SAN FRANCISCO, Sean Murphy, CEO of SKMurphy, Inc., will speak at Bootstrappers Breakfast® August 21, 2009 in San Francisco. ‘Join other entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast’ on August 21, 2009 at Boudin Bakery, 4 Embarcadero Center at 7:30 a.m. Sean will lead a roundtable discussion on Early Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make when starting their business.
Impressions From DAC09 Panel on “Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current?”
Here are my key takeaways from a thought-provoking panel at DAC09 on “Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current?”
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Project Health BoF at DAC2009 Recap
A couple of high level impressions. Here my notes from the “Managing Project Health” BoF at DAC 2009. After sitting through the presentations back to back I saw the outline of a four layer model for design management data stability – essentially what companies like Cliosoft or open source tools like CVS offer provisioning –
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