ASIC Design Starts Dropping: Implications for EDA
According to a recent analysis by Bryan Lewis and John Barber, ASIC Design Starts dropped by more than 50% between 2000 and 2008.
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Getting Early Feedback
Getting early customer feedback is critical to fine tuning your product so that you can scale up. The temptation is to use a on-line survey tool to save your time, but I think for your early customers a questionnaire may only give you the answers that you are looking for, not the information that you need.
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Ten Tips for Leveraging Blogs and Wikis in Your Consulting Practice
Is my topic this Thursday, February 15, at 7:00 PM, at the IEEE-CNSV meeting at KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA. The event is free. I will cover a number of practical suggestions for using blogs to promote a consulting practice and wikis to foster project team collaboration against a deadline. Blogs and
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Recipes For Longevity in “Mutual Improvement Clubs”
Mutual improvement clubs are an older version of a community of practice or a stakeholder meeting. Here are some recipes for keeping them going from William Feather and Ben Franklin.
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William Feather on “Perseverance Rewarded”
In “Perseverance Rewarded” William Feather offers some good advice for getting started. Many folks succeed because they don’t realize how hard it is to accomplish what they have set out to do (of course several orders of magnitude more fail).
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More from William Feather’s “The Business of Life”
Six quotes from William Feather’s “The Business of Life” offer practical business wisdom from a successful publisher.
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Thinking About Your Business Goals for 2007
Thinking About Your Business Goals We went through a brief planning exercise with our clients, and some prospective clients, that several found useful. Since it’s not too late to do some planning for 2007, here are a few questions that should answer on a single piece of paper (perhaps even a 3×5 card you can
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Ser Hou Kuang & Sean Murphy Granted US Patent 7162706 B2
Ser Hou Kuang & Sean Murphy Granted US Patent #7162706 B2 for “Method for Analyzing and Validating Clock Integration Properties in Circuit Systems” on January 9, 2007. Abstract: A method for analyzing and validating clock integration properties in a circuit design is disclosed. A database of timing points that are clocked cell elements of the
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Paul Saffo “Best Strategy is Ready, Fire, Steer”
Eight quotes by Paul Saffo on how technology is re-shaping organization design and strategic thinking in both commercial and military realms.
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People Manage People, Tools Manage Data
“People Manage People, Tools Manage Data” is a very good rule of thumb for guiding your sales and implementation efforts for a new system. People Manage People, Tools Manage Data This was a principle for systems design suggested in a talk I heard 15-20 years ago. I can no longer remember the speaker’s name but
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Six From Encyclopedia Neurotica
Jon Winokur has published a number of good books, including “The Portable Curmudgeon” and “Advice to Writers,” and was interviewed September 2006 by Guy Kawasaki, which prompted me to add his most recent, “Encyclopedia Neurotica” to my Amazon cart (where books can linger for months or years). I was frankly a little disappointed, but found
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Tips for Hiring and Firing a Sales Person
Peter Bakonyvari, VP Sales at JPMorgan SymPro, explains the practical realities of building a sales team: In particular firing a sales person.
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Iterating Towards Bethlehem: Michael Sippey at SVPMA 8/2/2006
In “Iterating Towards Bethlehem” Michael Sippey addressed making the shift as a product manager. from packaged software to hosted services.
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June 2006 SDForum Interview
I was interviewed in June 2006 by Barbara Cass, Volunteer Director for the SDForum, the final text appeared in the July/August 2006 newsletter (see page 15 of the PDF version). I have updated it here to add links for many of the referenced works and the quotes. KV Rao and I did a one year
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You Need to Be a Little Crazy
Theresa heard a radio interview with Barry Moltz in 2003 and suggested that I get his book. In December 2003 I purchased a copy of You Need to Be a Little Crazy and when it arrived from Amazon I put it on my to-be-read pile where it languished until early this morning when I read
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Plus Minus People
“Plus Minus People” make a strong initial impression but once you start working with them (or you hire them) you realize that they have a negative impact on the team.
Two Images of Startups
I had lunch today at El Cerrito with an old friend from college who has done a number of successful startups. We talked of old classmates, children, the energy we had in our twenties, his new son, and my new granddaughter. And we talked about what it was like to do a startup. He left
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Nusym De-cloaks 4
Venk Shukla, CEO of Nusym, commented on Nusym De-cloaks 3 on Dec 4 We had met a long time ago but lost touch afterward. The points you make about website credibility are valid. We will measure the information we put out against this criteria once we decide to emerge from the shadows. Thanks for paying
Ten Quotes from “Guidelines to Creativity” by K. Bradford Brown
I got Guidelines to Creativity by K. Bradford Brown as a gift and was impressed by these ten quotes. Some are clever re-statements of more famous observations but all have a certain poetry. Creativity will take me as far as my imagined limits. The building blocks of our creativity are quarried from the space between
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12 Books For the Busy CEO Tonight (Mon Dec-11-2006) @ SDForum
12 Books For the Busy CEO: spend an hour and leave with a summary of key marketing insights and some rules of thumb for successful innovation in Silicon Valley. You might even identify one or two books that you haven’t read that will be worth your time over the Christmas holidays. I will cover twelve
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