January’s Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
A report by Francis Adanza on the NewTech Meetup Jan-9-2007 that featured inChorus, Pinger, ComicVine, and PowerReviews.
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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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Iterating Towards Bethlehem: Michael Sippey at SVPMA 8/2/2006
In “Iterating Towards Bethlehem” Michael Sippey addressed making the shift as a product manager. from packaged software to hosted services.
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SaaS Roundtable: Managing Rapid Release Cycles
Gone are the days of annual release cycle. For many companies, weekly releases are the new standard. Picking the best software release cycle impacts your customers, team, and management. At this roundtable discussion we will exchange tips and gotchas. Provide a look at the impact on business models, teams and product development. Tuesday October 30
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SKMurphy: Getting More Customers Workshop
Finding More Customers Every business owner asks “How do I Find More Customers? How can I get the phone to ring?” Is your New Year’s Resolution to develop a plan to grow your business? Now is the time to get started. SKMurphy offers a three hour Getting More Customers workshop where you develop a one-page
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June 2006 SDForum Interview
I was interviewed in June 2006 by Barbara Cass, Volunteer Director for the SDForum, the final text appeared in the July/August 2006 newsletter (see page 15 of the PDF version). I have updated it here to add links for many of the referenced works and the quotes. KV Rao and I did a one year
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You Need to Be a Little Crazy
Theresa heard a radio interview with Barry Moltz in 2003 and suggested that I get his book. In December 2003 I purchased a copy of You Need to Be a Little Crazy and when it arrived from Amazon I put it on my to-be-read pile where it languished until early this morning when I read
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Plus Minus People
“Plus Minus People” make a strong initial impression but once you start working with them (or you hire them) you realize that they have a negative impact on the team.
Two Images of Startups
I had lunch today at El Cerrito with an old friend from college who has done a number of successful startups. We talked of old classmates, children, the energy we had in our twenties, his new son, and my new granddaughter. And we talked about what it was like to do a startup. He left
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Nusym De-cloaks 4
Nusym De-cloaks 4 Venk Shukla, CEO of Nusym, commented on Nusym De-cloaks 3 on Dec 4 We had met a long time ago but lost touch afterward. The points you make about website credibility are valid. We will measure the information we put out against this criteria once we decide to emerge from the shadows.
Ten Quotes from “Guidelines to Creativity” by K. Bradford Brown
I got Guidelines to Creativity by K. Bradford Brown as a gift and was impressed by these ten quotes. Some are clever re-statements of more famous observations but all have a certain poetry. Creativity will take me as far as my imagined limits. The building blocks of our creativity are quarried from the space between
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12 Books For the Busy CEO – Feedback
12 Books For the Busy CEO – Feedback Last night’s talk was well received. We had a good crowd, with folks filling the seats and a few having to stand up along the back wall. Here’s the feedback from the talk: I was surprised that it was more than 12 capsule reviews back to back,
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12 Books For the Busy CEO Tonight (Mon Dec-11-2006) @ SDForum
12 Books For the Busy CEO: spend an hour and leave with a summary of key marketing insights and some rules of thumb for successful innovation in Silicon Valley. You might even identify one or two books that you haven’t read that will be worth your time over the Christmas holidays. I will cover twelve
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Just For Today by Ben Stein
Just for today is a free verse poem by Ben Stein that encourages gratitude, mindfulness, equanimity, and self-restraint.
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3 Tips for Blogging
Map out a calendar of subjects to cover. Just planning one or two a week for the next 2 months will help you avoid writer’s block. This still leaves room for “inspired” work but can give you some structure. Pick a focus or related set of subjects for your writing. Inject your perspective and where
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Going Pro
Going pro means learning how to deliver the results required. Some key points to remember as you ask folks in larger firms to take a risk with your new offering or service. They are from a March 1993 column entitled “Going Pro” by Asa Baber.