Thanksgiving 2011
Reflections at Thanksgiving 2011: in the second half of my life, it’s time to appreciate all that I have and be more forthcoming in my gratitude to others.
Great Demo Workshop on February 29, 2012
Create and Deliver Surprisingly Compelling Software Demonstrations “Do The Last Thing First” — the recipe for a Great Demo! When: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8 am – 5 pm Where: Moorpark Hotel, 4241 Moorpark Ave, San Jose CA 95129 For out of town attendees: The Moorpark is located 400 feet from the Saratoga Ave exit
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Pictures Are to Words as Conversations are to Surveys
You waste time and reputation using these methods for B2B customer discovery: surveys, landing pages, and asking for endorsement before product experience.
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Start Black Friday at the Bootstrappers Breakfast in Mountain View
Do your shopping on-line and avoid the crowds, then drop by the Bootstrappers Breakfast® in Mountain View this Friday at 9am at Red Rock Coffee. We will be upstairs in our usual location in the corner to the left of the staircase. A Bootstrappers Breakfast allows you to Take part in a serious roundtable conversation among
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Panelists Announced for Bootstrapper’s Manifesto Book Club Webinar
Here is the panel for the Bootstrapper’s Manifesto Book Club Webinar: Neal Tovsen, Sarah Gray, Francis Adanza, and Sean Murphy.
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Veterans Day 2011
On Veterans Day 2011 we honor those who have served in the military and lived: thanks for putting your life on the line for all the things we hold dear.
Seth Godin’s “Bootstrapper’s Manifesto”
Seth Godin’s “Bootstrapper’s Manifesto” is worth and posting it where you can see it every day as a reminder to learn and to grow and enjoy.
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Perfectionism vs. Mastery
Perfectionism vs. Mastery Mastery’s great accomplishments require time and a willingness to release a sequence of prototypes. Perfectionism means you don’t ship until it’s perfect. Which means you never ship or what you ship has not learned from problems or needs that only visible post deployment. Randall Munroe’s “The General Problem” embeds this observation: “I
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Customer Interviews: Allow Yourself to Be Surprised
A few thoughts on customer interviews and why their capacity to surprise us makes them preferable to surveys and landing pages for early market exploration.
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Stay Tuned! We Are Being Purposefully Vague Right Now
I came across an interesting tool this week in the collaboration area. The web page invited me to apply for membership, prompting me to enter my e-mail, twitter handle, blog, and a brief bio. But they were “purposefully vague’ about who they were. It wasn’t exactly stealth mode, more like maintaining deniability if it failed
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Geva Solomonovich of Fraud Sciences at Fri-Nov-4 BB
Geva Solomonovich, an early employee at Fraud Sciences and several other startups joins us tomorrow to share lessons learned getting early customers and growing the business.
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Book Club: Brian Arthur’s “The Second Economy”
The Second Economy by W. Brian Arthur is the context for a though- provoking discussion of the emerging digital infrastructure for our world.
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The Startup Mythology of Silicon Valley
Align your startup with a higher purpose to sustain motivation. Avoid “entrepreneurial lifestyle” and startup mythology: build a going concern.
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Book Club: Seth Godin’s Bootstrappers Manifesto
Recorded Discussion on Bootstrappers ManifestoSteve Hogan moderates a discussion with Neal Tovsen of TelemetryWeb.com and Sarah Gray of MercuryApp.com on Seth Godin’s Bootstrapper Manifesto. This recording starts after the panel introductions please see View session www.skmurphy.com/blog/2011/11/14/panelists-announced-for-bootstrappers-manifesto-book-club-webinar/ for details on panelists. The E-book version of The Bootstrappers Bible is available at no charge from The E-book
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–October 2011
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A Professional Always Specializes
A Professional Always Specializes, great advice for entrepreneurs from the Bill Miner character in “the Grey Fox.”
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Planning for 2012: We Are Interested In Your Insights and Suggestions
We are starting our planning process for 2012 even as we scramble to finish everything still on the cooker for 2011. We have meetings scheduled with our partners to help us assess what we have learned from 2011 and arrive at a working consensus for 2011-13. I welcome any suggestions for: How to improve this
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Founder Story: Eric Deal, Cyclic Design
This originally appeared in EETimes on-line as “Eric Deal bounces back from a startup shutdown to establish Cyclic Design” on Dec-20-2010.
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Dave Stubenvoll Guest for “Origin & Evolution of New Business” Oct-26-2011
Dave Stubenvoll joins the panel for our Book Club for Business Impact to discuss “Origin & Evolution of New Business” by Amar Bhide
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Founder Story: Ghislain Kaiser, Docea Power
This interview with Ghislain Kaiser originally ran Nov-4-2010 as “Docea Power Successfully Bootstraps As a New EDA Player
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