Ford Harding on Rules of Thumb for Networking
Networking is good questions, listening, and helping others. Some rules of thumb for networking from Ford Harding’s Rainmaking (pages 44-59).
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The Fourth Quarter of 2011
Hard to believe that 2011 is already three-quarters over. Slightly more actually. I need to take the time in the next week to recap our goals for 2011 and recalibrate what is still “in the feasible region.” If I am feeling more ambitious I will also sketch out a preliminary list of goals for 2012.
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Rave Reviews for Theresa Shafer 2011
Rave Reviews for Theresa Shafer 2011 “Theresa does an excellent job with the marketing for my company. Because of her technical background, she is able to write an article from a brief interview, and I usually only need to do minor editing. She is creative in the collateral material she has developed. She does what
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Restlessness & Discontent, Gumption & Sisu
Entrepreneurs feel a calling to improve the world by creating an exchange of value. They are motivated by a dissatisfaction with the status quo and blessed with the energy and gumption to change it. People who are content or phlegmatic rarely try to change things.
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Working Smart
Kevin Kelly has a great blog post up on “working smart” called “What You Don’t Have To Do.” He defines a capability maturity model for working smart:
Real Clear Technology Aggregates Mainstream Media on Technology
I like Hacker News for early information and insights on technology. But I find the newly launched Real Clear Technology site useful to understand mainstream perception of the impact of technology innovation. It’s a branch off the Real Clear Politics site, my hope is that they build it out to match the same feature set.
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Successful Entrepreneurship Is Ongoing Self-Improvement
Three variations on the idea that “successful entrepreneurship is an ongoing self-improvement” project, program, or process.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–September 2011
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Entrepreneurs Are Nonconformists
“In high school, popularity is more important than anywhere else, but popularity is not a measure of likability. Popularity is composed of three elements: visibility, recognizability and influence. The people in school who have those three qualities are often that way because they conform to a standard. Meanwhile, the kids who won’t or can’t conform
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Book Club: Seth Godin’s “Texting While Working” Wed-Sep-27
We are trying an experiment tomorrow, instead of a book we will be talking about a short (200 words) but insightful blog post by Seth Godin “Texting While Working” that addresses several challenges many bootstrappers wrestle judging by the breakfast conversations I take part in. Our panel: Organizer: Francis Adanza, Dir. Professional Services, LeadFormix Carl
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Hotels Near Great Demo! Workshop
On October 12, we are hosting Peter Cohan’s Great Demo! Workshop. It is open to the public and often participates travel from afar. The all day workshop held at the Moorpark Hotel, which several past attendees have stayed at and enjoyed. Here are some additional hotels that are nearby listed in increasing distance from the
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Refine and Curate Your Thoughts as FAQs, Articles, and Talks
Refine and curate your thoughts by reworking the first draft of your answers in an email or in response to a question from a customer or an audience member at a talk.
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Charles Minnich of Hyland Software on “Great Demo!” Workshop
Here is a brief testimonial from Charles Minnich of Hyland Software after he attended our Great Demo workshop in September of 2010.
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The Risk of General Purpose Toolkits as a First Product
I will sometimes encounter an entrepreneur or team who is developing “a general purpose toolkit for X.” This may be at a Bootstrapper Breakfast or other networking event. They have often developed a core of a promising technology and see applications for it everywhere. Here is what I normally suggest: Write up a few examples
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Highly Effective Software Development Teams
The highly effective teams I have been a member of used a rapid prototyping approach to help bound uncertainties/risks in the project and delayed making decisions when more information would improve the situation, unless any further delay was effectively a decision. I think that a lot of individual productivity comes from problems avoided by a
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Book Club: Origin and Evolution of New Business
Live Call-in Discussion on Wednesday, October 26, 2011Dave Stubenvoll, CEO & Co-Founder Wowza Media, Inc., Francis Adanza, Dir. Professional Services, Zephyr, Inc. and Sean Murphy, CEO SKMurphy, Inc. share insights from the book about how they explore uncertain and ambiguous opportunities. View recorded session Origin and Evolution of New Business by Amar V. Bhide’ The
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Remembering What Happened
At first we didn’t know what to call it, so we called it what happened. “Do you believe what happened?” “They think he died in what happened.” It was weeks before we called it 9/11. Sometimes tragedy takes time to find a name. Peggy Noonan in “We’ll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We“ I
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Outstanding Panel for Wed-Sep-14 Book Club on “Great Demo”
We have an outstanding panel lined up for next Wednesday’s Business Impact Book Club: Matt Cameron, CEO, WhoTo.com Jon Cline, Principal, Cirrus Path Brian K. Seitz, Managing Director, Intellectual Arbitrage Group We will discuss lessons learned applying Peter Cohan‘s methodology from his “Great Demo” book. If you are interested in improving your sales presentation you
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Startup Fantasy Camp
“Startup Fantasy Camp: throw a group of strangers together for 48-72 hours and have them pretend to be a startup.” Sean Murphy Good ideas can be fleshed out and explored and an accelerated product prototyping experience can be had in a 48-72 hour camp. But I don’t think it’s realistic to expect that you can
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–August 2011
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