We are clearly in a recession that will test many startups in Silicon Valley and the rest of the United States. Those with determination and a willingness to embrace creative improvisation are more likely to survive.
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Steve Blank’s “Four Steps to the Epiphany” was a source inspiration in founding SKMurphy, and I was delighted to see that Steve has started blogging and it seems clear to me that he is using his blog to develop a companion volume. This one is more personal and uses specific experiences from his life to
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Daniel Nenni has a thought provoking first post on his new blog “The Mathematics of EDA.” He suggests that many EDA markets segments are “winner take all” in the manner of a poker pot, and that DAC is in need of reform to continue to be a good deal for larger EDA companies. He offers
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Here are a couple of upcoming events that you will not want to miss! March 19 “Leveraging Your Referral Network to Grow Your Business” A Bay Area Business Growth Meetup, this briefing includes a referral exercise to help you make the most of your existing network and present a model for how business owners can
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Cecily Drucker, CEO and Founder of Bottom Line Time–and daughter of the late Peter Drucker–has a good post up on the “What Would Dad Say” blog entitled “Secrets of a 64 year old Startup Virgin” that lists fourteen startup secrets she has learned with her first startup. She has a few more insights in her introduction
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Be Here Now When Giving a Talk I spent Monday through Wednesday of this week at O’Reilly ETech and was struck by how infrequently the audience met the presenter’s expectations. We rarely seemed to be large enough. Since this is about emerging trends I picked a number of oddball sessions and saw the same reaction
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Here’s a couple of sources for free public domain photo, clipart, cartoons and images. They are royalty free, not copy-righted and available for personal and commercial use. These stock photos are high resolution and high enough quality for print and websites. www.publicdomainpictures.net www.public-domain-image.com www.pdphoto.org www.unclesamsphotos.com However, keep in mind: You can not copyright the material
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Francis Fischbach attended the first Sales 2.0 conference in November of 2007 and blogged about it in “Inside Sales 2.0: A Report From the Front Lines.” I just realized that we missed the 2009 version that was held this week so I am recycling two comments that were added to Francis’ original post since I
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – February 2009 Read More »
Yesterday’s post talked about traction as the ability to set and hit goals. Here are three tests for goals to determine if they well-formed for your startup team.
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Although it’s aimed at startup entrepreneurs who are seeking investment, the Pitching Hacks e-book from the Venture Hacks team has $20* of advice for bootstrappers as well. Investors don’t invest in businesses. They invest in stories about businesses. If you want to raise money on favorable terms, you need multiple investment offers. How do you
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Looking for feedback on your website? Want to improve your website? When: Friday April 17, 2009 11:30 AM -1PM (Lunch Included) Where: Plug & Play Tech Center 440 N Wolfe Rd Sunnyvale, California 94085 SKMurphy will host an upcoming Peer Review Event for Websites. Three fellow CEOs will present their website while the roundtable will
SKMurphy’s Peer Review for Websites Set for April 17 Read More »
Networking is good questions, listening, and helping others. Carry more than your own card. Connect folks who will benefit from talking.
Three Things I’ve Learned About Networking Read More »
Sean Murphy is speaking at Bay Area Business Growth Meetup on “Leveraging Your Referral Network to Grow Your Business”. Thursday March 19, 2009 4-6pm Pacific Business Center 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd Suite 100 Cupertino CA 95014 Register: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=177524 Referrals from satisfied customers are the best way of generating new business. In the context of established
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Getting More Customers – A 90-day Plan Update Mon-Mar-30: Sold Out. Sorry No Walk-ins (Register to be notified of upcoming events) Tuesday, March 31, 2008 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) Pacific Business Center 2225 East Bayshore Road Palo Alto CA 94303 650-320-7600 Click here to Register: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=zbmdv We will cover a variety of
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100+ EDA Blogs: I have updated the “Bloggers Covering Design Automation” list so that it now has over 100 listed. I think remain on track for 500 blogs by 2011 as I had predicted in “What Happens when 70 EDA Blogs Become 500 in 2011.” It’s clear that this will create a number of opportunities
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Customer relationship management is enabled by authentic human connection: conversation, hand crafted replies, and other person to person communication.
The Limits of Customer Relationship Management Systems Read More »
I found myself wandering on a dark road in the rain last night, looking for a meetup organized by Tatyana Kanzaveli that featured a talk by Rob Weltman on “Cloud Computing: Using the Open Source Hadoop to Generate Data-Intensive Insights.” The event was in a banquet room at the Samovar Deli at 1077 Independence Ave
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