Father’s Day 2012
Recommended reading for new fathers on Father’s Day 2012: “The Measure of a Man” by Jerrold Lee Shapiro. A great Father’s Day book.
How To Run Experiments That Improve Your Business
How To Run Experiments That Improve Your Business Tomorrow, we complete our coverage of “The Innovator’s DNA”. We have a great panel who will share their tips and lessons learned running experiments that improved their products and business models. As Christensen observes, “Often the only way to get the data to move forward is to
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Great Demo! Demonstration Effectiveness Workshop
Overview of the Great Demo! Demonstration Effectiveness Workshop: learning objectives, topics and methods presented, and workshop schedule.
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Marcelo Rinesi: The Expertise Light Speed Barrier
Marcelo Rinesi writes on the implications of the “expertise light speed barrier” of ten years of focused practice to become an expert. He observes that if “we manage to defeat the ‘expertise light speed barrier’ and find ways to teach and learn much more effective than anything before, it would have an astounding impact on
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Answering Questions About Your Product In An On-Line Forum
Answering Questions About Your Product In An On-Line Forum requires you to focus on helping the members of the forum.
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Verify Your Market Insights Against A Variety of Information Sources
While we stress the value of serious conversations with prospects and customers there are other sources of market insights on emerging opportunities for your current product or next offering. I have placed them on a spectrum that runs from a macroscopic view based on objective measurements and numbers to a microscopic view that is more
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Shelly Gordon of G2 Communications at Sunnyvale BB Tue-June-19
Shelly Gordon, from G2 Communications Inc., has come to a couple of Bootstrapper Breakfasts® in the last year and offered very practical suggestions on how to tell the story of your startup and where to look for coverage. We have asked her to share her insights on the “How to turn my problem solving idea into
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Exits vs. Enduring Companies
It’s important to remember that VCs are rewarded for creating a return for their investors, not building enduring companies.
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Enterprise Change Agents Need to Add Process Mining to Their Bag of Tricks
Today many change initiatives (and new software sales almost always involve the key elements of a change initiative) rely on interviews and replicating the results from an existing “manual system.” Process mining tools and techniques will play an important role here.
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The Heart That Holds On
Entrepreneurship is sustained by what’s in your heart and a childlike curiosity toward how the world works and new undiscovered possibilities.
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How to Tell When Your Team Has a Workable Plan of Action
One key technique for determining whether you have a workable plan of action is to conduct a premortem, a review of possible sources of failure in advance with a goal to avoid them, or at least reduce their impact and likelihood of occurring.
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Getting Started and Managing Rejection
Entrepreneurs must learn that managing rejection is a requirement from the moment they commit to getting started. I could argue that you have not started until you have been rejected.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–May 2012
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Are You Using Cognitive Task Analysis for New Market Exploration?
Review of key elements of Cognitive Task Analysis–Knowledge Elicitation, Analysis, and Knowledge Representation–with applications to market exploration. Are You Using Cognitive Task Analysis for New Market Exploration? I am interested in talking with anyone who is using Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) or Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) methods and paradigms to inform their customer interviews. I
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Your Prospects and Your Customers are Real People
Your Prospects and Your Customers are Real People I’m hardly the first person to complain about the word “user” to describe people who do stuff with software…People don’t think of themselves as “users” and in all other contexts the word “user” is not generally positive and certainly not evocative of the kind of intimate, day-to-day
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Memorial Day 2012
On Memorial Day 2012 in we commemorate those who died in the service of our country. I offer some excerpts from Lt. Col. Michael Strobl’s account of escorting the remains of a Marine killed in combat in 2004 for you to meditate on.
David Foster Wallace: The Only Choice We Get is What to Worship
What follows are excerpts from a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. I thought they were an appropriate antidote to a model for entrepreneurial motivation that aspires to make enough money to do whatever you want. Wallace outlines some of the risks in failing to align
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Conversations With Prospects: Practice, Review, Share Notes, Ask for Feedback
Conversations with prospects unfold in real time: you must listen for what’s said and not said, manage your emotions, and understand the implications.
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Jim Manzi: Focus on Delivering Value to Customers at a Foreseeable Profit.
Jim Manzi, founder of Lotus and Applied Predictive Technologies, advises entrepreneurs to “Focus on delivering value to customers at a foreseeable profit” in “How to Succeed in Business by Really, Really Trying.” How to Succeed in Business by Really, Really Trying. It’s a great article and also on the limits of advice to entrepreneurs, in particular autobiographies
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The Wit to See and Understand Objective Reality
Shared situational awareness means that a team has reached–and maintains–a working consensus on the objective reality they must deal with.
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