Hadoop Summit 2009 – Quick Impressions
A quick overview of the Hadoop Summit 2009: we are looking at project CPU budgets measured not in CPU years but CPU millennia.
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Andrew Chen: Most Web 2.0 Media Startups Have a B2B Enterprise Model
I don’t know how I overlooked Andrew Chen’s “Your Ad-Supported Web 2.0 Site is Actually a B2B Enterprise in Disguise” He succinctly outlines some hard facts that many founders of media startups spend a year of their life to learn:
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Conference Call on Customer Development for Entrepreneurs Thu-Jun-18
Brant Cooper and I are doing another conference call for entrepreneurs actively engaged in customer development. We facilitated one on June 3 and have another planned for 1pm Thursday June 18. To participate, you must: be actively engaged in practicing customer development principles; clearly articulate one or two issues that you would like to discuss;
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Website Peer Review at PATCA June 11
We are facilitating another website peer review Thursday June 11 at PATCA. At our April 17 website peer review, we were asked by Jerry Rice to produce a similar event for PATCA and were happy to oblige. Theresa is a member of PATCA and regularly attends their events. She blogged about “Three Reasons to Attend
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We’ve Been Recognized by EE Times as a Trusted Sources Blog
We have been invited to join the “EE Times Trusted Sources” list of blogs. At the discretion of EE Times editors a blog post may be selected from one recently published and a capsule summary placed in their “Trusted Sources” area. EET has characterized the section as follows. This section features posts from around the
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4 Spots Left for Robert Dang at Bootstrapper’s Breakfast on Friday
Robert Dang, partner and attorney at Fortis General Counsel, http://www.fortisgc.com returns to our Bootstrapper Breakfast™ this Friday, June 5 at Hobee’s Palo Alto (4224 El Camino Real) at 7:30 am. Robert will answer questions and discuss the legal issues facing entrepreneurs in today’s economy. Fortis is a startup friendly firm and endorsed by attendees. Rob’s
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs – May 2009
Every few days I post a quotation on www.twitter.com/skmurphy that I think will be useful or thought provoking for entrepreneurs. On the last day of the month I collect all of these quotes for entrepreneurs into a blog post and add some context. For a list of all my blog posts that are related to
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Conference Call on Customer Development For Entrepreneurs Wed-Jun-3
One of the challenges with customer development is that it involves not only formulating and testing hypotheses about your customer and their specific needs but also uncovering hidden assumptions that may be holding your team back. If you feel you’ve hit a brick wall in your efforts please sign up for a free teleconference session
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Memorial Day 2009
A personal memory of a cousin who died in Vietnam for Memorial Day 2009 commemorate those who died in the service of our country.
Interview with John Sanguinetti
Co-founder and chief technical officer of Forte Design Systems, John Sanguinetti talks about his experience of turning an idea into a business. He was the principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator, and was a major contributor to the Verilog’s resurgence in the design community. He has 15 publications and one patent. He also
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John Sanguinetti on an EDA Startup’s First Product
John Sanguinetti was the founder and CEO of Chronologic Simulation, a startup that developed a compiled code approach to Verilog simulation. I am working on an interview with John and came across a very interesting position statement he gave as a part of a panel at DAC 98 called “The EDA Startup Experience: The First
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Briefing on Cloud Computing Paradigms at IEEE-CNSV May 19
I had the good fortune to meet Chris Wensel last year at a Hadoop User Group meeting at Yahoo and I was immediately impressed by his ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts in cloud computing. His explanations were not “dumbed down” but flowed from a deep understanding he had gained using the technology to
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20 Ways To Generate Leads
Here is a practical list of 20 ways to generate leads. Review the list and pick a few that you haven’t tried recently.
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Athol Foden at Friday May 8 Bootstrapper Breakfast in Milpitas
Athol Foden of Brighter Naming is our guest speaker Friday May 8 for the Bootstrapper Breakfast™ at 7:30am at the Omega Restaurant in Milpitas. Athol has over 16 years of experience helping clients name companies, products, services, and taglines. Athol’s opening remarks will be followed by a question and answer session on developing the right
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – April 2009
It’s been a year since I started using Twitter to post quotes for entrepreneurs. I realize now that using Twitter, while encouraging me to collect more new quotes, forces me to focus on ones that will fit into a 140 character limit. I am thinking of re-titling this “Pithy Quotes For Entrepreneurs” where pithy means
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Bootstrapper Breakfast This Friday
I ran into an entrepreneur last night after the IEEE-CNSV “Service Economy” event who had been to a Bootstrapper Breakfast but had had to shut down his business. He asked me “I don’t have much to say right now but I get a lot out of the breakfasts, can I still come?”I said “Certainly. Not
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Conway’s Law: the Co-Evolution of Business Organization and Product Design
One formulation of Conway’s Law is that communication problems in an organization will manifest in their finished products: communication channels matter.
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Customer Development is a Sequence of Prototypes
Key takeaways from “Eight Rules for Prototyping” by John Hanks and Todd Dobberstein. A prototype is used both to assess technical feasibility and to provide a demonstration to a customer to get feedback. Customer development is a sequence of prototypes.
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Five Output Formats to Support
Some output formats to consider your application, they each have different properties and affordances and are not easily substituted for each other : Screen E-Mail Projector Print Fax Screen Most common way that users will interact in everyday use. This is how many prospects will view the product. E-mail output options Simple hypertext (e.g. URLs
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What To Do After the Layoff Fairy Taps You on the Shoulder
Building on yesterday’s “A Too Common Conversation of Late” here are some additional suggestions and advice for the newly unemployed. The loss of structure can be crippling. Get active and stay active. Unplug your television and visit the library. Make a list and read 5-10 books a month. Reconnect with old friends at least once
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