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Lenny Greenberg of Assistyx at Milpitas Bootstrappers Breakfast Friday

Events, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / October 5, 2009

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

Checklist, Events, Rules of Thumb, skmurphy, Startup Stages / By Sean Murphy / October 4, 2009

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

Rules of Thumb, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / October 3, 2009

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

Rules of Thumb, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / October 2, 2009

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

Quotes, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / September 30, 2009

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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Slides from “Limits of I’ll Know It When I See It” Talk at SFBay ACM

Books, Events, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / September 29, 2009

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

Events, skmurphy, Startups / By Sean Murphy / September 28, 2009

I offered a Startup Maturity Checklist session at Code Camp Sun-Oct-4-2009. It was well attended: we reviewed all of the checklist items.

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Getting More Customers – A 90-day Plan

Events, skmurphy / By Theresa Shafer / September 16, 2009

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

Events, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / September 15, 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

skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / September 13, 2009

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

skmurphy, Spirit / By Sean Murphy / September 12, 2009

Take a minute to recall 8 years ago: September 11, 2001. Here are some suggestions for translating painful memories into positive action.

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Take a Minute to Recall 8 Years Ago

skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / September 11, 2009

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

Rules of Thumb, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / September 7, 2009

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

Design of Experiments, Rules of Thumb, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / September 1, 2009

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, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / August 31, 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

Community of Practice, EDA, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / August 27, 2009

I’ve known Nanette Collins for 20 years and am glad she took me up on my offer of a guest blog on volunteering and managing volunteers.

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Bootstrapper’s Breakfast Announces Roundtable Conversation on Early Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make

Events, skmurphy / By Theresa Shafer / August 12, 2009

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.

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Impressions From DAC09 Panel on “Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current?”

EDA, Events, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / August 10, 2009

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

EDA, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / August 8, 2009

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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Managing Project Health Birds of a Feather at DAC 2009

EDA, Events, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / August 7, 2009

I suggested that the “Managing Project Health” Birds of a Feather was one of the “Opportunities for Serious Conversation at DAC 2009” and it proved to be a very thought provoking session. When design teams try and assess “Project Health” they are normally trying to determine where they are (or what’s been accomplished and what

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