Silent Killers, Information, and Culture
Summaries of Silent Killers, Culture, and Information from the Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche by Dave Jilk and Brad Feld
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Time to Market: Tips for Strategic Networking
Sean Murphy and Etienne Garbugli offer tips for entrepreneurs to become effective at strategic networking that moves their business forward.
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How to Bootstrap a Startup Video Available
This comprehensive approach, as outlined in Sean Murphy’s insights, can help aspiring entrepreneurs bootstrap their startups effectively while maintaining a strong focus on building a real, valuable business.
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Guide to Silicon Valley Startup Events
Many digital nomads and travelers to Silicon Valley are looking for good networking events to meet and compare notes with other founders. This guide gives an overview of networking and startup events in Silicon Valley.
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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Physicians
Emerging and competitive markets are complex dynamic systems. Entrepreneurs can learn from physicians how to navigate uncertainty, how to establish and maintain rapport with those they serve, and how to cultivate equanimity in the face of success and failure.
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Time to Market: Making Tough Decisions as Founders
My latest “Time to Market” podcast with Etienne Garbugli explores one of the keys to startup success: making tough decisions. We explore several helpful frameworks for effective team decisions and share some of our experiences of what we have seen work and not work.
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ChatGPT Tips Getting the Most Out of the Chatbot
Here are some ChatGPT tips and use cases I’ve gleaned from a year of use for getting the most out of the technology.
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How Founders Can Learn Sales on the Job
In this podcast, Étienne Garbugli and Sean K. Murphy discuss several proven approaches for how founders can learn sales on the job.
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Success Is An Iceberg
Everyone can see success and accomplishments (the part of the iceberg above the water line). But beneath the surface is the hard work, commitment, and perseverance to achieve that success.
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In Good Soil: Goal-Driven vs. Muddling Through Strategies
“In Good Soil” is a well-written book on the founding of a new school and new monastery by a monk, Rev. Timothy Horner O.S.B., who was there from the beginning. It’s a story of a different kind of startup, full of insights and humorous observations.
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August 2023 Newsletter – Origin Story
Origin story – Why did you start your business? SKMurphy highlights and a few tools for startups.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in July 2023
The theme for this month’s collection of quotes for entrepreneurs is Small Teams with Big Dreams.
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Time to Market: How to Learn From Co-Founder Disagreements
In this podcast, Étienne Garbugli and Sean K. Murphy discuss critical aspects of co-founder disagreements and those at a team level. They believe that most disagreements can be managed to yield productive insights, more effective plans, and a working consensus on a problem or challenge.
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What is an Editorial Calendar?
Edited transcript An editorial calendar is a planning tool used for content creation and publishing. It is a schedule that outlines the topics, themes, and timing of planned content pieces, such as articles, blog posts, social media updates, videos, podcasts, white papers and other forms of media. The purpose of an editorial calendar is to
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How Founders Should Should Manage Startup Runway
Using 14 Ways B2B Entrepreneurs Can Extend Their Startup Runway to Go the Distance as a point of departure, Etienne Garbugli and Sean Murphy offer practical advice to entrepreneurs on how to manage startup runway.
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What is Social Capital?
In his book “Working Capital Vol 1: It Takes More Than Money,” Sean Murphy defines social capital as the set of business relationships established with customers, partners, suppliers, and prospects. What is Social Capital? In an excerpt from Sean Murphy’s book “Working Capital Vol 1- It Takes More Than Money”, he defines social capital as
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Startup Origin Story: Why Did You Start Your Business?
One exercise we find very useful for entrepreneurs is to have them tell their startup origin story. You can then use it to build a team and to find prospects who may become customers.
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Time to Market S01 E05 – Startup Posters: Useful or Misleading?
In this episode, we review some popular startup posters, discussing where they make sense, what’s good about them, and potential drawbacks.
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Jorge Zavala: Build Products and Services from Your Experience
Learn how to transform your life, create wealth, and enjoy delivering solutions to a broad market. It has never been easier to be a Solopreneur handling yourself your own business.
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Time to Market S01 E04 – How B2B Startups Can Play a Fast Game
Startups must often play a fast game to establish themselves in competitive markets and achieve rapid growth. We discuss how to spot opportunities earlier, learn more quickly, and execute faster.
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