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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What is Your Website Grade?
I found an interesting little tool Website Grader which evaluates your website. It produces a score and a list of things you can do to improve it. Some of the things I don’t agree with, but most are pretty good. Last night I played with it and the best sites I looked at were 80-70/100
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Beyond Google: A9, Citeseer, and Krugle
A time capsule blog post that documents three search tools that were beyond Google in their focus in 2007: A9, Krugle, and CiteSeer.
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Stepping on the Web 2.0 Scale at IBDNetwork Jan-23-07
Last night I attended the IBDNetwork Strategies Series: Stepping on the Web 2.0 Scale. The event was hosted at Shasta Ventures and featured these guest speakers: Moderator: Tod Francis, Managing Director, Shasta Ventures Panel of Experts: Adam Gross, VP Developer Marketing, Salesforce Shawn Hardin, CEO, Flock Jason Pressman, Partner, Shasta Ventures Sam Schillace, Engineer, Writely/Google
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SVASE: Do I Have What it Takes to Be an Entrepreneur?
Over lunch today I attended the SVASE Startup-U Event: Do I Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur? Which was held at Plug & Play Tech Center. The guest speakers were John Kim founder of Five9 and LeadMarket, and Steve Stephansen, Board Director of the Sand Hill Angels. It was an open discussion with a
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William Feather’s “The Business of Life”
Seven quotes from “The Business of Life,” an insightful 1949 book by William Feather. It’s a collection of short notes, letters, newspaper columns magazine articles. It’s like reading a blog from the 1930s and 40s.
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Evaluating Business Advice
Everyone has advice for you about how to run your company! Even if it’s in the form of question like “When are you going to Get a Job?” Friends and relatives who have only been employees may have your best interest at heart but not have the background or temperament to help you get your
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Hugh MacLeod’s Thoughts on Being an Entrepreneur
Hugh MacLeod posted “Random Thoughts on Being an Entrepreneur” earlier this week. I’ve picked the best five and added some of my own comments 4. Once you become an entrepreneur, you find the company of non-entrepreneurs a lot harder to be around. You’ve seen things they haven’t; the wavelengths alter, it’s that simple. There are different perspectives
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Thinking About Your Business Goals for 2007, Part 2
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on thinking about your business goals for 2007, it’s also worthwhile to look at your own motivations and needs. In an extending interview in Fast Company “Are You Deciding On Purpose,” Richard Leider advises that you ask yourself two key questions: What do you want? How will you know
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Thinking About Your Business Goals for 2007
A brief planning exercise on one sheet of paper for thinking about your business goals. Many of our clients have found this useful.
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3 Ways to Build Credibility with Prospects
Here are three ways for building credibility. Referrals A referral is an introduction to a prospect with an endorsement. A referral allows you to borrow credibility from a trusted third party. They spring from shared success with your customers or former co-workers, someone who knows your potential and can vouch for you or your team’s
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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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Power of Website Content
Here’s a good blog post on website content. How Can 10 Simple Articles Change Your Life? In his post Chris Pearson, recounts a story about a friend who creates a website (nothing fancy) but has wonderful content (10 articles). He kills his competition with his content. If you are selling your expertise, try promoting yourself
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Making Our Business More Credible in 2006
We did an end of year de-briefing session an concluded that that the following changes had a things that had a positive effect on our business in 2006. Adding a logo to Business Cards Backgrounder (now in about SKMurphy, Inc. page) Improving Our Website Blogging LinkedIn Contacts Bootstrapper’s Breakfast “12 Books for the Busy CEO” Talk
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January’s Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
Last night, I attended the January Silicon Valley New Tech Meetup. For those of you who do not know the format of these gatherings, it is very simple. Each group of presenters is allowed five minutes to pitch their offering and then the crowd is allocated five minutes to ask questions. The first presenters were the founders
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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
Here are six quotes from Jon Winokur’s Encyclopedia Neurotica that I think founders will find thought provoking.
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Our 2007 New Year’s Resolutions
Here are our 2007 New Year’s resolutions. Theresa plans to improve her public speaking, Francis wants to develop a better understanding of theories of entrepreneurship, and Sean hopes to develop a more positive outlook.
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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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