One Door Closes, Another Opens
My New Years Day 2010 post encourages a search for opportunity, inspired by Helen Keller’s observation when one door closes, another opens to.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – December 2009
You can follow @skmurphy to get these quotes for entrepreneurs hot off the mojo wire or wait until the end of the month when they are collected on the blog. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Do Customer Development in Parallel with Product Development
It’s a good idea to do customer development in parallel with product development: talk to prospects, surveys are not enough.
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Early Customer Conversations: Use Appreciative Inquiry, Amplify Positive Deviance
Appreciative Inquiry offers a solid approach for early customer interviews.Ask, “What’s working and what problems do you have?”
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Two Holiday Bootstrapper Breakfasts Added Mon-Dec-28 & Wed-Dec-30
We have added two Bootstrapper Breakfasts Last Week of 2009 on Mon-Dec-28 & Wed-Dec-30. You are welcome to drop by.
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John Carter to Speak at IEEE-CNSV on “Doing the Math” Tue-Dec-15-2009
John Carter CEO of TCGen is speaking on “Doing the Math: How to Estimate and Manage Results” at IEEE-CNSV on Tuesday December 15 at 7pm at KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051. The event is free and open to the public.
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Few Seats Left for Jan-12-2010 Idea to Revenue Workshop
We have a few seats left for our Jan 12, 2010 Idea to Revenue workshop in Redwood Shores, CA. If you are in formation or the early days of your startup this is a good opportunity to spend four hours on your business with your team members. We help you ask each other the hard
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Tips For A Startup’s Early Press Releases
Here are five tips for a startup’s early press releases. While they can be useful, you need to test the messaging before broadcasting it.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – November 2009
Baked fresh on @skmurphy these quotes for entrepreneurs are collected into a blog post at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Thanksgiving 2009
Thanksgiving 2009: to be self-employed in a downturn is a wonderful opportunity–I don’t have to worry about getting laid off.
There is a Bootstrapper Breakfast This Friday at Red Rock Coffee
We are meeting in Mountain View at 9am at Red Rock Coffee for a Bootstrapper Breakfast: it’s the fourth Friday of the month. Take a break from the four day Thanksgiving weekend and join us Friday for a Bootstrapper Breakfast in Mountain View at Red Rock Coffee. It may be a more intimate session for
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Updated Home Page, Let Us Know What You Think
We’ve streamlined our home page and highlighted our advisory services, our sales and marketing support, audio and video for some recent presentations, and our Bootstrapper Breakfast events. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. The workshop page now highlights a September 2009 talk at SF BAY ACM “The Limits of I’ll Know It When I See
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Early Bird for Jan-2010 “Idea to Revenue” Ends Next Week
Just a quick reminder, the early bird rate ends next week for our Jan 12, 2010 Idea to Revenue workshop in Redwood Shores, CA. If you are in formation or the early days of your startup this is a good opportunity to spend four hours on your business with your team members. We help you
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Updating Your Website? Don’t Forget …
When you are updating your website add permanent redirects (HTTP 301) for any pages you have moved/renamed to preserve search engine ranking.
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Veterans Day 2009
A thank you on Veterans Day 2009 to all of the men and women in our armed forces who make this Silicon Valley oasis of rationality and innovation possible. Veterans Day 2009 “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us
Ben Foden on “Creating Genuine Connections with Social Media”
Ben Foden has been working with us part time; the following is a blog post he developed on creating genuine connections with social media.
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Social Media for Startups: “Less is More”
There has been a lot written about various aspects of social media: what tools to use, how disruptive it is, how to develop and/or demonstrate expertise. Here are four rules of thumb we follow. To establish a reputation you have to be visible or reasonably well known, but it’s more important to be known for
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Marc Andreessen’s Entrepreneurial Insights Rescued from Bit Rot by Jed Christiansen
Marc Andreessen’s Entrepreneurial Insights were rescued from bit rot and decay first by Jed Christiansen and then by the Internet Archive.
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Six Simple Suggestions for Using LinkedIn
I use LinkedIn very differently than many of the folks I meet when I am out and about in Silicon Valley. I normally only link to people I have had shared success with. I do not link with folks who I have just casually met. I believe it’s important to keep track of folks I
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – October 2009
These quotes for entrepreneurs are added as I find them on http://www.twitter.com/skmurphy and then collected into a post at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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