Two Professional Groups for Consultants
Two professional groups for consultants are the Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA) and Women in Consulting (WIC).
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EDA Bloggers’ BoF at ICCAD 2008
An announcement of an EDA Bloggers’ BoF at ICCAD 2008, listing speakers, organizers, and a mailing list for EDA Bloggers
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3 Tips for Developing User Community Sites
After blogging about how “User Communities are Critical for Complex Products” two days ago I thought I would offer some quick tips on how to get started: Be clear on the benefits to the members. So many social networking groups are very clear on how members bring benefit to a user site, but not very
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Please Be Healthy
I sent the following E-Mail after a series of conversations and E-Mail exchanges with a founder struggling with entrepreneurial burnout. I encourage him to “please be healthy.” I thought it was apropos the current angst in Silicon Valley.
User Communities Are Critical For Complex Products
User communities are not just a low cost way to market and support your product, they are essential to complex technology products.
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Steve Blank on Customer Development at TiE Wed-Sep-17-2008
I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Steve Blank on “Customer Development for Startups” on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at TiE and I wanted to offer some pointers both to content he referenced and some related information on Customer Development.
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Ten Key Books for Busy High-Tech Execs @IEEE-SCV-TMC Nov-6-2008
Sean is speaking Thursday November 6 at the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the IEEE Technological Management Council on “Ten Business Books in One Hour for the Busy High-Tech Executive.” Location: Ramada Inn, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale CA 94089 (See Meeting Map) Time & Date: 6-9pm (Dinner included) on Thursday November 6, 2008 Cost &
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Sam Schillace at Tomorrow’s Bootstrapper Breakfast
I first met Sam Schillace at an Under The Radar event on “The Business of Web Apps: Where the Web Goes to Work” in March of this year. Sam co-founded Upstartle, the firm that developed Writely, with Steve Newman and Claudia Carpenter. I had been a user of Writely before it morphed into Google Docs
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Herb Reiter Interview on Fostering Static Timing Analysis Adoption
An interview in 2008 with Herb Reiter of EDA 2 ASIC Consulting, Inc. on Static Timing Analysis and how to introduce it into a design flow.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs–September 2008
Continuing my twitter experiment I have selected a quote every couple of days that I believe is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. At the end of the month I collect these quotes for entrepreneurs into a blog post. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Lesser Sons of Greater Fathers
An exploration of 9/11 and Bill Whittle’s “The Undefended City” which uses this quote “the fear that we may be lesser sons of greater fathers, and that we may no longer have the courage or the will to defend the City entrusted to our care” as a point of departure.
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Financial Modeling for Startups Workshop–Early Bird Ends Tomorrow
Update Tue-Sep-23: Sold Out, No Walk-ins. We will offer it again: you can sign-up to be notified of upcoming workshops We just finished our last rehearsal for next Wednesday’s (Sep-24) “Financial Modeling for Startups” workshop we are doing jointly with Nathan Beckord of Venture Archetypes. I think it will be a good lunch and learn
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Good Blogging is Good Linking
A good blog post has good linking to sources and related material for context. Here are some guidelines to craft a useful blog entry.
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Four Startups at Office 2.0 Worth a Second Look
Four Startups at Office 2.0 Worth a Second Look We plan to take a closer look at four services that exhibited at Office 2.0 last week. They each have one or more compelling features that may fill gap in our current set of productivity tools. Vyew It’s a zero configuration (100% browser based, provided you
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Software Demos on YouTube
Software Demos on YouTube I checked out some software demos on Youtube. There are all types. But here are a couple I want to talk about. First the bad … Nokia N800 Internet Tablet … Reggie Suplido of Internet Tablet Talk takes a look at the software that comes pre-installed on the new Nokia N800
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – August 2008
Continuing my twitter experiment from April, May, June, and July I have continued to select a quote every couple of days that I believe is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. I collect these quotes for entrepreneurs into a blog post at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new
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Three Tests For Negotiating A Software Deal
Negotiating a software deal–from either side of the table–is different from many other negotiations: here are three tests to apply.
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Strategic Planning for Non-Profits
Recap of a working session for PATCA and some lessons for strategic planning for non-profits.
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Entrepreneurial Ideas
Entrepreneurial ideas make a difference only when they are complemented with diligent execution. They are necessary but not sufficient.
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Networking and Referrals
This is a guest post on networking and referrals by Steve Moore of SPMSolutions. Networking and Referrals Networking and referrals remain the primary marketing strategy for many community-based small businesses (especially those with limited budgets). In contrast, many technology-oriented small businesses rely more upon online forums, social networking sites, user groups, etc., to reach potential
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