Use Wikis for Team Projects
We have used wikis for team projects for 7 years. Here are some reasons why, lessons learned, and best practices we have adopted over time.
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EDA Chiefs Hazard No Guesses on 2010 Market
I covered the EDAC CEO Panel last Thursday for EETimes, what follows is a copy of the article I wrote for them “EDA Chiefs Hazard No Guesses on 2010 Market (02/19/2010 7:12 PM EST)” It differs from the version on-line at EET only in that I have added some links for context. SAN JOSE, Calif.—With
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Iron Bars, Plexiglass, and Masking Tape
An actual dream I had of a tiger prowling a maze where some walls are iron bars, others are plexiglass, and strips of masking tape seem to bar some paths. I later realized it was a metaphor for three kinds of barriers that entrepreneurs need to navigate as they get a new business established.
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Better, Impossible, and Unthinkable Products
I think that there are better, impossible, and unthinkable products. Better products are “15 minutes ahead.” Impossible products relax one or two design key constraints. Unthinkable products restructure the design pattern or paradigm to achieve an unprecedented result.
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George Grellas Answers Questions at Feb-16 Bootstrapper Breakfast in Sunnyvale
Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, February 16, in Sunnyvale where George Grellas will present a short legal guide for entrepreneurs. George is a veteran Silicon Valley startup business lawyer who heads a boutique firm that specializes in early-stage technology startups. Since 1984, as a founders’ lawyer, George has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs in helping them
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Customer Development Helps Entrepreneurs Assess the Value of an Invention
Colin Cherry in “The Telephone System: Creator of Mobility and Social Change” makes the point that the full impact of an invention is very difficult to predict.
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New Firms in Silicon Valley
Companies names have sure changed in the last year or so. I was noticing today how many signs outside of office buildings seem to be branch offices for these firms: Move In Now First Month Free Your Name Here Available for Lease Space for Rent Here are two directories that list available office space for
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I Don’t Understand, We Won the Argument, Why Didn’t We Win The Sale?
It’s Rare That You Are Actually Bringing Fire To The Savages If you think you are so much smarter than your customers that you are “bringing fire to the savages” you will find it hard to learn from them and hard to actually close deals. What follows are three true stories. We Won The Argument,
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Verdafero Profiled by SJ BizJournal “Sustainability Planning Over the Web”
I was pleased to see Verdafero profiled in Feb-5-2010 “The Pitch” column of the San Jose Business Journal. The article, “Palo Alto’s Verdafero Offers Sustainability Planning Over the Web,” ran in the February 5th print edition. We have been advising Verdafero since 2008.
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Saras Sarasvathy’s Effectual Reasoning Model for Expert Entrepreneurs
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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Articles, Ideas, and Books That Made Me a Better Entrepreneur
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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Jenny Allen’s Story “I Got Sick Then I Got Better
In “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” Jenny Allen speaks candidly about surviving cancer.
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Sustaining Is More Important Than Starting
Bootstrappers are well served to focus on recurring revenue and charging early: sustaining is more important than starting.
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Two Customer Development Examples: SixApart & WowzaMedia
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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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – January 2010
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Sean Murphy – I Don’t Read Him Regularly, But I Hear That I Should
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
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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Foresight 2010 Conference Day Two
Second day at the Foresight 2010 conference on “Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)”
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Foresight 2010 Conference Day One
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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At Foresight 2010 This Weekend
The Foresight 2010 conference provided a clear view of where a number of key technologies were headed and what cost/performance improvements were likely.
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