Happy Fourth of July 2017
Once more it’s Independence Day. Here are some quotes I found appropriate for this year. I wish you and your family a Happy Fourth of July 2017.
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BeamWise Optical System Design Workflow Profiled in Laser Focus World
The BeamWise team contributed an article to the May 2017 issue of Laser Focus World that highlighted the coherent workflow for optical system design provided by BeamWise.
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No Safety in Numbers
This post applies the moral of James Thurber‘s “The Fairly Intelligent Fly”–that there is “no safety in numbers, or in anything else”–to entrepreneurship.
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A Summary of Max Gunther’s “The Zurich Axioms” for Entrepreneurs
Max Gunther’s “The Zurich Axioms” is aimed at investors but also offers valuable insights and rules of thumb for entrepreneurs.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Collected in June 2017
I collect quotes for entrepreneurs from a variety of sources and tweet them on @skmurphy about once a day where you can get them hot off the mojo wire. At the end of each month I curate them in a blog post that adds commentary and may contain a longer passage from the same source for context.
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Newsletter June 2017: Summer Reading 2017
Our June 2017 Newsletter features four books entrepreneurs should consider for their Summer Reading 2017 list. I have included an additional four free books in our special offers section.
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Father’s Day 2017
A collection of quotes and stories related to fathers and fatherhood for Father’s Day 2017.
Quotes for Entrepreneurs–May 2017
I collect quotes for entrepreneurs from a variety of sources and tweet them on @skmurphy about once a day where you can get them hot off the mojo wire. At the end of each month I curate them in a blog post that adds commentary and may contain a longer passage from the same source
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Embrace Parkinson’s Law As A Constraint
Some entrepreneurs fall into the trap of working long hours as an end in itself. Parkinson’s Law warns us that work without limits can consume your life.
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Ogden Lilly 1948-2017
Ogden Lilly passed away suddenly on Sun-May-14-2017. He worked as an accountant for 47 years at a firm that ultimately added his name to the masthead. I have relied on his advice and counsel for more than two decades and feel his loss keenly on a personal and a professional level.
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Five Insights from Devora Zack’s “Networking For People Who Hate Networking”
Devora Zack wrote “Networking For People Who Hate Networking” to help introverts improve their network skills. She offers a number of insights along with several worksheets, checklists, and exercises to help you prepare, practice, and reflect.
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Newsletter May 2017: New Market Exploration
Our May 2017 Newsletter features four articles on new market exploration, one of the most difficult customer development challenges that entrepreneurs face. It requires strong interview, observation, and sense making skills.
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Developing a New Product? Key Questions to Ask
An infographic with some key questions to consider when developing a new product. Originally suggested in “Breakthrough Thinking From Inside the Box” by Coyne, Clifford, and Dye in HBR December 2007.
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Leads–The Fuel for Your Sales Machine
“Leads–The Fuel for Your Sales Machine” is now a registered trademark of SKMurphy, Inc. Please contact us to learn more about our lead generation services.
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Jeff Allison: How To Blend New Capability and New Product Development
Jeff Allison offers a June-1-2017 briefing on how to blend new capability development and new product development. Innovation requires experimentation that allows for the possibility of failure but the whole point of creating a program commitment process is to avoid failure.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs–April 2017
I collect quotes for entrepreneurs from a variety of sources and tweet them on @skmurphy about once a day where you can get them hot off the mojo wire. At the end of each month I curate them in a blog post that adds commentary and may contain a longer passage from the same source
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Newsletter April 2017: Update Your Goals Based On Results
It’s time to update your goals based on results to date. 2017 is now well underway and some goals you set for Q1 may need to be revisited and perhaps dropped or rescheduled for this quarter. Here is what happened in Q1 and what we have planned for Q2.
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Innovation Inside an Organization Requires Balancing Priorities
It always seems simpler to be able to start with a blank slate, and even better to be given just one project so that you can focus, but the reality is that innovation inside an organization requires balancing priorities.
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Frank Robinson’s Minimum Viable Product Definition
Frank Robinson’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) concept as first articulated in 2001. An MVP is the result of product development and customer development proceeding in parallel, which Frank Robinson called “synchronous development.”
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Cyberspace Everts Into The Real World as IoT
When Cyberspace everts into the real world enabling communication and connection for non-computing related applications we call it IoT (the Internet of Things).
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