Survey of Personalized News Aggregators
A roundup of Personalized News Aggregators from 2010, unfortunately all of these apps are now dead and have not been replaced.
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DreamSimplicity Interviews Sean Murphy
DreamSimplicity interviews Sean Murphy on the SKMurphy, Inc. startup stages model: formation, open for business, early customers, finding a niche, and scaling up.
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Fourth of July 2010
Fourth of July is when the Declaration of Independence was signed, America’s declaration to England that “You’re Not The Boss of Me Now.”
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Cool Business Cards
Here are some cool business cards I have encountered in the course of my networking at conferences and other events.
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Ken Imboden on Lessons From MMC, Candlestick, and NuSym
Ken Imboden offers lessons learned on developing software products from managing at large firms, and successful and unsuccessful startups.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–June 2010
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Moving Cash Into & Out of Your Bootstrapped Startup
Here are five tips for moving cash into and out of your bootstrapped startup.
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Classroom Habitudes Also Useful For Entrepreneurs
In “Classroom Habitudes,” Angela Maiers defines the six traits for successful learning as Imagination, Curiosity, Perseverance, Self-Awareness, Courage, and Adaptability. I think these habitudes should also be embraced by entrepreneurs.
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Finding a Co-Founder: 3 Months Is a Long Time
This post builds on my earlier “Finding a Co-Founder” and “Compromise & Get Started” posts on the challenges with finding a co-founder for your software startup. It assumes you are working at least part time with a potential co-founder exploring if you can collaborate successfully and generate revenue from a new jointly developed product or
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Finding A Co-Founder: Compromise & Get Started
Building on yesterday’s “Finding A Co-Founder” I want to identify a couple of common challenges to getting started with people you have had prior shared success with and offer some suggestions for how to compromise and get started working with them. Reconnect with Folks You Have Successfully Collaborated With I suggested the following approach: Make
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Finding A Co-Founder
This is based on both my direct experience and stories folks have shared at the Bootstrappers Breakfast® over the last few years about finding a co-founder.
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Treat Social Capital With the Same Care as Cash
Treat Social Capital With the Same Care as Cash
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The Half-Life of Wisdom
The half-life of information is six months. The half-life of wisdom is a lifetime. Plan accordingly. Many facts have a shorter half-life.
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Are You Generating iPad Fishbowl Leads?
Two years ago we asked the question “Are You Generating iPod Fishbowl Leads” I was reminded of this by a recent post by Simon Favre “You Can’t Give Stuff Away Fast Enough” about his recent experiences at DAC 2010 working in both the Global Foundries (GF) and TSMC booths.
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Kurt Keutzer on Engineering Entrepreneurship & EDA
Highlights from an interview with Kurt Keutzer as part of the 2010 Design Automation Conference. He uses Foster’s S-curve from “Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage” to offer perspective on EDA.
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Beat The Clock
Global teams work 24 hours a day, 7 day a week to “beat the clock.” Here are some tips to increase their effectiveness.
Collecting Unpaid Bills
In 1995 I did some work for one of the early web startups in Palo Alto. They had delivered a number of database driven websites using a proprietary software technology that they had developed, and had sold the technology to several firms. But they had a problem collecting unpaid bills: they had not been paid
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Tips For Modeling & Managing Cash Flow
A summary of tips for modeling and managing cash flow at a recent bootstrappers breakfast briefing by Rick Kadet.
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Simple Client Satisfaction & Process Improvement Survey
Whether it’s a free phone call or a working session, a workshop, or a longer term engagement we normally send the following four question survey to all of the participants: Please help us improve our engagement and service delivery processes. Please take five minutes and answer the following four questions with one or two items
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Ben Yoskovitz: Start with Passion For Solving a Problem
Ben Yoskovitz stresses the importance of starting with a passion for solving a problem, not evangelizing your solution.
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