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
Peter Cohan’s Great Demo! seminar on September 15, 2010 will help sales and marketing professionals learn how to develop compelling demos.
Picked Up And Moved Heavy Objects Without Getting Hurt
When I put together my first resume in college I described my job as a mover as “picked up and moved heavy objects without getting hurt.
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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
I like Pierre Khawande’s Results Curve model for managing interruptions and balancing focused work with time for collaboration.
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Recognizing Chris Finnie as a Partner and Advisor
We have worked with Chris Finnie on several projects and would recommend her if you need help with branding, messaging, and positioning.
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If We Killed Our Product Would You Miss It?
Don’t ask prospects, “If we killed our product would you miss it?” It’s product management malpractice.
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Deprecating Facebook 3: Marcelo Rinesi’s Perspective
This is the third in a series about my decision to move away from using Facebook. Deprecating Facebook means no longer trading hard won social knowledge for a trivially valuable way to communicate with people we already know.
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DreamSimplicity Interview Transcript
Here is the transcript–edited for clarity and hyperlinked for context–for my recent interview with Floyd Tucker of DreamSimplicity Marketplace. The focus was on our startup stages model: formation, open for business, early customers, finding a niche, and scaling up.
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Summer Reading For August 2010
Here are seven suggestions for good books for entrepreneurs for summer reading for August 2010; “Selling the Wheel” is a good place to start.
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Startup Business Development at July 20 Bootstrapper Breakfast
Mark Florant is giving a briefing on startup business development at the July-20-2008 Bootstrappers Breakfast at Coco’s in Sunnyvale, CA.
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Four Movies To Renew Your Gumption
Here are four movies to renew your gumption, I watch one when I need to refill my gumption or recover my sisu: The Verdict, Apollo 13, The Dish, and The World’s Fastest Indian.
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Experiments Vs. Commitments
Distinguish between experiments and commitments with customers. Share prototypes and ask for feedback but keep your promises. The easiest way to keep a promise is not to make one, so take great care in what you sign up for.
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Ten Design Thinking Quotes From Marty Neumeier
Thanks to a retweet by Daniel McKenzie I stumbled across Marty Neumeier‘s twitter feed and discovered a stream of insights related to design thinking. I have selected my favorite ten.
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