The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.” Paul Saffo Paul Saffo is speaking at a Churchill Club Breakfast on Tue Aug 28 7:30am to 9am at Fenwick ( 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA 94041) on […]
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Details for a Great Demo Workshop on March 8, 2008 offered in San Jose by Peter Cohan of the Second Derivative.
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Tim O’Reilly had a great post yesterday, “Surprises on the Bookshelves of CEOs” that also included quotes for entrepreneurs that he has collected over the years.
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A useful basic sales model start with understanding the process that your prospects go through to make a purchase: understand believe act.
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The following is a time capsule [Ed: more of a “tiny time pill” than a full capsule] from August 7, 2000. This was part of my personal home page in August of 2000 at Cisco. It was the height of the dotcom boom and bringing order out of chaos was a challenge.
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Startups are hard work. Many fail in the first year and more than half within five years. Planning allows you to prevent problems, perseverance to overcome them.
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Three questions to answer before taking a job with startup: do you like the team and leadership and want to serve their customers.
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August, normally a vacation month, is host this year to a number of compelling events for entrepreneurs. Guy Kawasaki is speaking at BayChi Tue Aug 14 7-9pm on “By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09” where he will explain why and how he
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Jerry Weissman’s model for a successful presentation takes the audience on a journey from Point A to Point B: from uninformed and skeptical to persuaded and ready to act.
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Steve Blank serial entrepreneur, author of “Four Steps to the Epiphany,” and a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will be speaking at TiE on Wednesday August 15, 2007. The event starts at 6pm and ends by 10pm, it will be held at the TiE Conference Center, in Suite 108
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Ken Novak of Replicate Technology will give a talk on “SaaS Rapid Release Cycles Drive Virtualization Demand” at LinuxWorld in San Francisco Aug 7-9, 2007.
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Francis Adanza recaps the Ready, Set, Launch: Taking the Product to Market event at SVPMA on July -11-2007.
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Networking in Silicon Valley is not a spectator sport, it’s essential to helping your startup prosper. Networking is good questions, listening, and helping others. Carry more than your own card and connect folks who will benefit from talking to each other.
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A post from 2007 on Tom Anyos and the efforts of Technology Ventures Corporation.
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A summary of key business rules of thumb from W. J. King’s “The Unwritten Laws of Business” that are particularly applicable to startup entrepreneurs.
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EET Sheds EDA Expertise: Bad News for EDA Startups Richard Wallace pens a “Note to Our Readers” in the morning edition of EE Times on-line (hyperlinks added): Last week CMP Technology, a part of United Business Media and parent company of this newspaper, announced sweeping editorial management changes at EE Times and TechOnline, EEtimes.com‘s sister
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Ann Marcus interviews Mike Bitzko of CadPlex on an EDA acquisition during the DotCom boom, offering some lessons learned.
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Francine Tyler, CPA francinetylercpa@gmail.com 831-419-9812 See also Q: Can you recommend an accountant for business taxes? Our Answer used to be You can’t go wrong with Ogden Lilly at Boitano Sargent and Lilly. Odgen has done my taxes on the business side for more than a dozen years and helped on the personal side for
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“Nuts, Bolts, and Jolts” by Richard Moran offers a well organized collection of business advice organized as bullet-length prescriptions.
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Anthony Scampavia has been with SKMurphy since 2007, he provides consulting around a lightweight product development model that is appropriate for startups. In addition he focuses on reviewing and defining product release and test strategies as well as developing test and development sandbox environments for automated regressions and system level testing. Prior to SKMurphy, Anthony
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