Real Prospects, the Simplest Functionality They Will Pay For, and Team Members Who Can Help
Progress is discovering real prospects, understanding the simplest functionality they will pay for, and finding team members who can help.
Four Questions We Use To Help Improve Our Practice
We are diligent in getting feedback on our consulting performance. Here are four questions we use to help us to improve our practice. We also solicit feedback after every talk, seminar, and workshop that offer. We read all of it, and try and make new mistakes on the next iteration. Four Questions We Use To
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Thanks for Creating Such Good Articles
A real thank you email from a Voler Systems newsletter reader sent to Walt Maclay, who thanked us for creating such good articles.
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Content Creation for Thought Leadership and Lead Generation
At SKMurphy we help clients with content creation, organizing their expertise and insights as text, audio, video, and animation.
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Daniel Pink: Entrepreneurs Need Problem Finding Not Just Problem Solving Skills
In addition to problem solving skills entrepreneurs need to cultivate and codify their discovery process and problem finding skills.
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Work Is A Beautiful Thing
Mike Rowe did a great voice over for “I am a Factory” a commercial for Walmart’s American Jobs program that ends with “Work is a beautiful thing.”
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Is Your Health and Fitness Application or Appliance Really a Medical Device?
Practical guidance to determine the risk for regulatory review for a health and fitness application or appliance assessed as a medical device.
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Wynton Marsalis on Humility, Self-Mastery, and Learning
Humility allows you to question what you are working on and why. It enables you to understand what it is you really want your business to accomplish.
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Leonard Smith 1927-2014
I didn’t know Leonard Smith but I was forwarded a link by John McKenna two days ago to his obituary (originally published in GreenwichTime on Jan. 26, 2014) and I thought it captured the essential personality of people who bring change to organizations in trouble and often start new ones.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs–January 2014
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Discerning the Future
Discerning the future is hard work, we travel facing backward into the past so that it seems to sneak up from behind us. Some insights on discerning the future using Robert Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” as a point of departure.
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Getting Unstuck Revisited
A friend I had not seen in a while felt “stuck” in a startup. It’s a feeling I am familiar with: I made 3 suggestions for getting unstuck.
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Difference Between a Hypothesis and an Assumption
The difference between a hypothesis and an assumption is that the first is typically explicit and the second implicit. A hypothesis is what you are testing explicitly in an experiment. An assumption is tested implicitly. By making your assumptions and hypotheses explicit, you increase the clarity of your approach and the chance for learning.
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Q: How To Pull The Trigger On A Pricing Model
It can be difficult to put a price on a new product service, much less to develop a pricing model you can use to offer pricing to many different prospects. Here are some tips.
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Recap Semifore MVP Clinic: Selling To A Team of Diverse Experts
This MVP clinic explores some of the challenges Semifore must navigate selling a solution to a team of diverse experts.
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The Likely Consequences of Entrepreneurship Require Perseverance
Justin Kan (@JustinKan) wrote “Startups Don’t Die, They Commit Suicide” in 2011″ (mirrored on his blog here) reflecting on what he had observed and learned as a serial entrepreneur. It was reposted on the Philly Startup Leaders list earlier this week which led me to write the following comments mixed with excerpts from Kan’s post.
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Plant Acorns With A Customer Development Interview
A customer development interview should be treated as a conversation that can enable a future business relationship. Use it to plant acorns .
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The Intelligent Pursuit of Happiness
Arthur Brooks outlines the intelligent pursuit of happiness in the key choices that under our control: faith, family, community, and work.
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Ten From Paul Zappia’s “29 Ways To Stay Creative”
Paul Zappia (@PaulZii) aka “Paul Zii” blogged a great list of “29 Ways to Stay Creative.” Here are my top 10 from his list (shown at left) with some comments added. 1. Make Lists. To Do Lists, Shopping Lists, Things to Try, Experiments to Run. If only for the pleasure of crossing items off you
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Semifore Execs Share Bootstrapping Lessons and 2014 Scaling Up Plans at Jan-17-2014 MVP Clinic
Semifore execs, Rob Callaghan and Herb Winsted, Share Bootstrapping Lessons and 2014 Scaling Up Plans at an Jan-17-2014 MVP Clinic.