August 2023 Newsletter – Origin Story
Origin story – Why did you start your business? SKMurphy highlights and a few tools for startups.
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What is an Editorial Calendar?
Edited transcript An editorial calendar is a planning tool used for content creation and publishing. It is a schedule that outlines the topics, themes, and timing of planned content pieces, such as articles, blog posts, social media updates, videos, podcasts, white papers and other forms of media. The purpose of an editorial calendar is to
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Startup Origin Story: Why Did You Start Your Business?
One exercise we find very useful for entrepreneurs is to have them tell their startup origin story. You can then use it to build a team and to find prospects who may become customers.
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Jorge Zavala: Build Products and Services from Your Experience
Learn how to transform your life, create wealth, and enjoy delivering solutions to a broad market. It has never been easier to be a Solopreneur handling yourself your own business.
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Enhance Collaboration With Think-Write-Pair-Share
One facilitation strategy we use for more thoughtful discussions and encourages greater participation and collaboration.
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Paul Orlando – How to Quantify if a Market is Ripe for Your Product
Timing plays a significant role in the success of startups. It’s about recognizing the right moment to launch a product or service that aligns with emerging trends, consumer demand, and market conditions.
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Finding Co-Founders: Recruiting Like-Minded Individuals for Startup Success
When recruiting people for your startup, finding co-founders who share your goals and vision is important. The alignment between co-founders is crucial for success, as it helps avoid potential problems that can derail the company.
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From Consulting to Entrepreneurship: How to Successfully Make the Transition
Ihor Bauman shares tips for building a portfolio and generating initial sales – crucial steps in validating and launching your business.
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Entrepreneurship’s Ups and Downs
Michael Risich – Entrepreneur turned technologist, turned technology founder with an exciting journey building a SaaS business scaling to 10M in ARR with an exit to a PE firm!
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Managing the Risk and Uncertainty in Business Decisions with Charlene Deaver-Vazquez
Charlene Deaver-Vazquez presents a new conceptual tool that allows for easy steering to problem areas and rapid decisions without losing sight of the important stuff.
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A Conversation with Mark Tweddle on Imposter Syndrome
Mark Tweddle and I discuss the implications of imposter syndrome, notably when feelings of inadequacy might spur you to improve.
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2023 – This year’s experiment
Every year we design experiments – new things we try. Our 2023 experiment was doing short 2 minute videos – chalk talks. Below is a roundup of some of our favorites.
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Moe Arnaiz: Lessons Learned Bootstrapping eMOBUS and Weeldi
Moe Arnaiz is an outstanding entrepreneurial CEO; he shares two founder stories: the successful sale of eMOBUS and how going through that process helped him navigate his new venture, Weeldi. As a serial entrepreneur, he has shown the ability to take his awareness of industry direction and craft it into a business vision.
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Customer Buying Process: Understand, Believe, Act
A simple but very useful model we like for the customer buying process is “Understand, Believe, Act.” This post explains what it is and how to apply it.
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Clear in Hindsight: April 2022 ended a Minsky boom for startups
A Minsky boom is a period of economic growth characterized by increasing instability and speculation, ending in startup funding constricting.
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Harsh Darji on How to Innovate Using Visual Thinking
Harsh Darji shares some of his drawings and his process of visual thinking. See how visual thinking can help you innovate your business.
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Triage for Managing Interrupts
This is for startup founders. You have a lot on your plate and events and interruptions make it even more interesting.
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Chalk Talk 1-2-4-1
We use a four phase project planning model we call 1-2-4-1 which allocates time to planning, prototyping key challenges, finishing the bulk of the work, and polishing.
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Holly Hester-Reilly: Lean Product Principles in B2B
Holly Hester-Reilly offers a briefing on how to apply continuous product discovery and lean product principles in a B2B environment.
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Accidental Learnings from a Journeyman PM by Bill Seitz
Bill Seitz shares some of his learnings, so you can experience more “interesting” errors.
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