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On Memorial Day 2011 we commemorate those who died in the service of our country. I offer three quotations related to men giving their lives in battle for you to meditate on.
SKMurphy’s Book Club for Business Impact provides actionable insights for the entrepreneurially minded, whether you are trying to bring change to a market or an organization. It’s a webinar / call in with a panel that has a roundtable discussion with the audience. Everyone will have a chance to contribute their experiences and lessons learned
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Distinguishing between where you are giving up too soon or are persisting too long is a hard problem. Here are some tips.
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I am looking forward to three talks at Startup Lessons Learned 2011 (SLLConf 2011) by David Binetti, Steve Blank, and Suneel Gupta.
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George Grellas left a great short essay on leadership in a comment on Hacker News. Writing in response to “Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will” This is reposted with his permission (re-formatted from a single block of text).
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Here are a couple of rules of thumb you may find helpful in thinking about price, value, and your prospect’s perception of risk.
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Startups see fluid opportunities in dynamic environments, but no certainties before opportunities pass or the “situation changes.”
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Tristan Kromer suggests that there are many viable models for a business, all have advantages and drawbacks. Services are easy to start but hard to scale. Despite surface appearance, a software business still inventory of people, key assets in the form of ideas, and a manufacturing process in the form of software release.
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I will often hear folks say “I think I can get a lot of users, I know that there is a market for this.” I worry because a market requires customers not just users: you can tell who your customer is because they pay for your product or service. When you say to yourself that
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A special announcement for our valued readers SKMurphy introduces a new service, Book Club for Business Impact. This is a call-in virtual discussion group that leverages the best ideas from business experts, best-selling authors, and thought leaders. Listen to the live action group review and discuss prominent books and articles that will inspire you to
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Call-in Book Club For Business Impact webinar recorded on June 22, 2011: Steve Mock, Francis Adanza and Sean Murphy recap “3D Negotiation” a 2003 Harvard Business Review Article by David Lax and James Sebenius. You can now view the recorded session
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Call-in Book Review Recorded on Wednesday, June 8, 2011Massimo Paolini, Miles Kehoe, Dorai Thodla, and Sean Murphy recap Barry Moltz’s “You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business”. They share how they personally found the courage to start their businesses and their desire to make “working for yourself”
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Customer understand when they have unmet needs, persistent problems, and goals and risk. They are normally very good at describing their problems and constraints on a solution but less accurate in fully specifying a solution.
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Webinar: Practical Insights From “Back of The Napkin” May 11 Whether it’s in a conversation with your team, with prospects, partners, or customers, the ability to sketch and to encourage them to collaborate on a sketch of the issue that you are discussion can be very helpful. It can be on a white board in
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Tips for using a wiki to organize customer interviews for customer discovery and to assess perspectives on their offering after purchase.
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Tom Van Vleck has a great collection of software engineering stories on his site. One particularly good article is “Three Questions For Each Bug That You Find” which offers the following key observation: The key idea behind these questions is that every bug is a symptom of an underlying process. You have to treat the
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On May 25, 2011, Howard Dernehl, Moe Arnaiz, Charles Baugh and Sean Murphy recap Drucker’s article “Managing Oneself” followed by examples of how they have incorporated how they learn and their strengths into their business. “Managing Oneself” by Peter Drucker This short seminal article by Peter Drucker tells us that we must all
From time to time I run into a business card that makes me think. Here’s one that I will model as I update my own cards. Also check out some cool business cards from last year. Back:
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