Peer Advice and Support for Startup Founders
Entrepreneurs benefit from peer advice that provides knowledgeable perspectives, highlights blind spots, and lifts them out of ruts.
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Entrepreneurs benefit from peer advice that provides knowledgeable perspectives, highlights blind spots, and lifts them out of ruts.
Peer Advice and Support for Startup Founders Read More »
Need an accountant for business taxes? Here are accountants recommended by Bootstrappers Breakfast members for startups and small businesses. One question that comes up in December and January, and sometimes in February and March, is “who can recommend a good accountant to help me file a corporate tax return?” It turns out it is better
Q: Can you recommend an accountant for business taxes? Read More »
We recently interviewed Adam Verhasselt, founder and creative director at Vlux Visual. He creates music visuals and augmented reality experiences to build brands from the ground up.
Startup Lessons Learned with Adam Verhasselt Read More »
Lean Canvas Experimentation is part of a five part series by Ed Ipser where he explains how to use the Lean Canvas and what it is good for. Focus Marketing Operation Finances Experimentation In this Lean Startup Canvas session on Experimentation, Ed Ipser shares how to use your lean startup canvas to design and conduct experiments
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An extract from a highly interactive session with Thomas Ahn at the Lean Culture Meetup on Mar-25-2021 where he answers “what makes for an effective investor pitch?”
Micro-VC / Angel investor Thomas Ahn on the Effective Investor Pitch Read More »
Lean Canvas Finances is part of a five part series by Ed Ipser where he explains how to use the Lean Canvas and what it is good for. Focus Marketing Operation Finances Experimentation In this Lean Canvas – Finance session, Ed Ipser shares how to identify your own revenue and cost structure and how to create
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Lean Canvas Operations is part of a five part series by Ed Ipser where he explains how to use the Lean Canvas and what it is good for.
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Lean Canvas Marketing is part of a five part series by Ed Ipser where he explains how to use the Lean Canvas and what it is good for. Focus Marketing Operation Finances Experimentation In this Lean Canvas – Marketing session, Ed Ipser shares how to identify your own early adopters, unique value proposition, and marketing
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In Ed Ipser’s recent Lean Canvas workshop I shared how we picked our tagline “early customers and early revenue.”
How We Picked Our Tagline “Early Customers and Early Revenue” Read More »
SKMurphy’s bootcamp provides a proven Customer Discovery Framework for validating your idea with prospects to determine the real market need.
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xMentium Reframes Contract Management as Faster Deals What follows is a quick look at xMentium’s current positioning and some lessons I have learned from their realization of the customer’s true need–or at least the need that emerged once you have contracts under revision control in a searchable repository. SKMurphy has been an advisor since February
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Let’s face it, finding customers can be quite a challenge. In this interactive course, we will cover a variety of proven marketing techniques for growing your business: attendees will select one or two that fit their style and develop a plan to implement them in their business in the next 90 days.
Getting More Customers – A 90-day Plan Read More »
Our Customer Discovery Bootcamp is offered on demand based on an inverted classroom models. Briefings are recorded and homework about your startup is assigned in advance, you then review your answers with other entrepreneurs and experts from SKMurphy
Customer Discovery Bootcamp for Market Exploration Read More »
Pricing for early customers must compensate them for the risks of adopting early. Startups need revenue, references, and case studies
3D Negotiation: Pricing for Early Customers Read More »
Sean Murphy explains to a client why startups should just sell the results to reduce a prospect’s perception of risk in a new tool.
Just Sell the Results to Reduce Perception of Risk Read More »
Sean Murphy was interviewed by Etienne Garbugli on “Working Capital: It Takes More Than Money” for the March 9, 2021 LeanB2B Podcast.
Sean Murphy Interview with Etienne Garbugli for the LeanB2B Podcast Read More »
The key challenges to getting your first ten customers relate to understanding the customer buying process and managing the startup learning process for need, impact, customer definition and message.
Why is it so hard to get your first ten customers? Read More »
Entrepreneurs starting their first business often hunt for a cookbook of recipes to make sense of a journey that is alternating between bewilderment and frustration. But startups fight for existence in a competitive and evolving environment, where changes in the technical or social substrates can invalidate their strategy or enable competitors without warning.
Entrepreneurs Cannot Rely on a Cookbook or a Manual Read More »
The best way to get leads is through referrals from satisfied customers or others who are in position to vouch for your product or service.
Best Way to Get Leads is Referrals Read More »
We outline the process of launching a bootstrapped startup, from creating an idea, to forming a team, to proving viability.
A Holistic Approach to Launching a Bootstrapped Startup Read More »