Chalk Talk on Technology Adoption
A Chalk Talk on “Managing Risk In Technology Adoption” that covers some of key challenges technology providers have with getting companies to use their products.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–August 2010
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Bootstrapping Mightyverse Talk at Sep-1 Breakfast in SF
Sarah Allen will talk about bootstrapping a mobile startup at the Bootstrapper’s Breakfast Wednesday September 1 at 9am at Boudin Bakery, Embarcadero 4 in San Francisco. Sarah is a serial entrepreneur who is using her software development consulting business, Blazing Cloud, to bootstrap a mobile-focused startup, Mightyverse. The Mightyverse blog offers this overview of the
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Feed Readers De-Mystified at Sep-23 Lunch & Learn Webinar
Feed Readers De-Mystified at Sep-23 Lunch & Learn Webinar I will be giving a short presentation on “Feed Readers De-Mystified–Tips For Keeping Informed” at the September 23 Lunch & Learn Webinar hosted by People on the Go. Cost: No Charge When: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM PDT Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/151449787 I will
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Debugging Teams/Meetings: Start With Goals & Roles
James Shonk advises that you should start your efforts toward debugging teams and meetings starts with and analysis of the goals and roles of each member or participant.
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10 Tips For Choosing a Business Partner at WIC Sep-13
Theresa Shafer and I are giving a talk on “10 Tips on How to Choose a Business Partner” on Monday, September 13, 2010, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm at the Women In Consulting (WIC) South Bay meeting. We will outline some important tips and considerations when choosing a partner, sub-contractor, or alliances members that will
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3 Equations & 3 Unknowns: Customers, Features, Message
We posted the interview I did with Floyd Tucker of DreamSimplicity about a month ago but in the last two days I have had two people comment to me directly and one tweet about my “three equations and three unknowns” answer: customers, features, message.
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Ed Weissman on B2B Opportunities for Startups Part 2
Ed Weissman is a prolific contributor to Hacker News, this post collects some insights he has offered on B2B.
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SVCC 2010 “Will Work For Equity” Startup CEO Panel Members
I mentioned on August 12 in “Signup For ‘Will Work For Equity’ at Silicon Valley Code Camp” that I had submitted the following session for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp (Oct 9-10 at Foothill College): Will Work For Equity – the World Startups Are you considering joining a startup? Sean Murphy, CEO at SKMurphy,
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Ed Weissman on B2B Opportunities for Startups
Ed Weissman offers three reason why business prefers to pay for software: employee focus, a commitment to service, co-evolution with their needs.
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Interesting Trend: Nightowl Co-Working
Nightowl Co-Working is a new concept and complementary to Bootstrapper Breakfasts that start at 7:30am–hard to imagine common attendees!
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Compelling Demos
Second Derivative’s Great Demo! seminar on September 15, 2010 helps frustrated sales, marketing and presales professionals and entrepreneurs improve their skills and gain dramatic results. Peter Cohan helps organizations like Keynote Systems and Phreesia put the “Wow!” into their demos to make them crisp, compelling and successful. “I believe everyone on the team will find
Picked Up And Moved Heavy Objects Without Getting Hurt
My first real job was as a furniture mover when I was 16. When it came time to put together a resume as I was graduating from college “picked up and moved heavy objects without getting hurt” was the best description I could come up with. I came across a copy of that first resume over
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Paul Saffo: Forecasting is “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held”
Paul Saffo defines “strong opinions, weakly held” as an effective mindset for foresight or making forecasts. This is a good approach for entrepreneurs.
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Signup For “Will Work For Equity” at Silicon Valley Code Camp
I have submitted the following session for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp: Will Work For Equity – the World Startups Are you considering joining a startup? Sean Murphy, CEO at SKMurphy, will host a panel outlining important tips and issues to consider if you are investing your time in a startup. This session will
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Entrepreneurial Engineer Blog Launches With Oasys CEO Interview
I am delighted to be able to return to EE Times as a regular columnist/blogger after a sixteen year absence, with my Entrepreneurial Engineer Blog. Richard Wallace, now blogging at “The Next Silicon Valley“, asked me to write “Nickel Tours of the ‘Net” which cataloged the impact of the Internet on Electronic Design as websites
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Product-Market Fit is a Fraction Not a Bit
Product-Market fit is a measure of the relative fitness of a product solving a problem for a particular customer set at a point in time.
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Keep on Walking
My brother told me about “The Man Who Walked Around the World,” a 2009 long form commercial for Johnnie Walker that was part of their Keep on Walking campaign. It stars Robert Carlyle in a six minute single take. I am not a scotch drinker but I found Carlyle’s delivery of the story of the
Quotes For Entrepreneurs–July 2010
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Pierre Khawand’s Results Curve
Pierre Khawand has an intriguing E-book out “The Results Curve™: How to Manage Focused and Collaborative Time” that makes the following suggestions for increasing your personal effectiveness in the face of the plethora of sources for interruption and distraction we can leave ourselves vulnerable to if we are not careful. He has five key observations/suggestions
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