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Sean Murphy to Speak at Bay Area Business Growth Meetup

Events / By Theresa Shafer / February 17, 2009

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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March 31, 2009 Getting More Customers

Events / By Theresa Shafer / February 16, 2009

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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EDA Roundup: 100+ EDA Blogs, Jim Hogan, Wally Rhines

EDA, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / February 15, 2009

EDA Roundup: 100+ EDA Blogs, Jim Hogan, Wally Rhines 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.”

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The Limits of Customer Relationship Management Systems

Customer Development, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / February 14, 2009

Customer relationship management is enabled by authentic human connection: conversation, hand crafted replies, and other person to person communication.

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Deep Roots Are Not Reached By the Frost

Events, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / February 12, 2009

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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Spellr.us Is So Good That I Want To Pay For It

skmurphy, Tools for Startups / By Sean Murphy / February 10, 2009

Spellr.us Is So Good That I Want To Pay For It I sent Kevin Garber an E-Mail yesterday afternoon “I love the product, I would like to pay for it.” I had spent about twenty hours in the last week cleaning up typo’s on www.skmurphy.com and www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com (first of all who knew that there were

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Other Customer Development Models

3 Early Customer Stage, Customer Development, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / February 9, 2009

In “The Challenges of Measuring Non-Existent Markets” Scott D. Anthony outlines four principal challenges in measuring non-existent markets: Data does not yet exist. When a market doesn’t exist, there are no baseline market research reports or time-series data sets to analyze. Lack of comparable products. Without existing data, there is a natural tendency to look

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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – January 2009

Quotes, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 31, 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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Fewer of You Will Be Listening To Someone Else

2 Open for Business Stage, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 27, 2009

I worked at Monolithic Memories from 1984 until 1988, in 1985 Irwin Federman, who was CEO at the time announced that the company was informally banning meetings on Fridays. It seemed reasonable to me and I thought it would probably make us more productive. A few weeks later he announced that the company was going

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William Feather on “Dead Business”

2 Open for Business Stage, Books, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 25, 2009

William Feather’s “Dead Business” details the stark differences between a going concern and all the agreements and understandings that have been reached to make it viable, and a bankrupt one.

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Three Most Popular Posts So Far

Blogging, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 24, 2009

We have a little over 400 posts up on the blog since we started with “Welcome Entrepreneurs” on October 1, 2006. I thought I would offer some guidance to newer readers on which have been the most popular. I have looked at popularity through three lenses: feed clickthroughs, unique page views, and total page views.

Backtype is a Useful Tool for Bloggers

Blogging, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 23, 2009

One of the things I like to do is re-work and improve comments I have left in forums or on other blogs into posts on this blog. I have been using Backtype for a few weeks now and have found it useful for keeping track of other places I have commented. You need to register

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Douglas Partner’s LinkedIn Workshop

Events / By Theresa Shafer / January 22, 2009

I attended a great Douglas Partner’s workshop this week. I have always been a believer in the power of a good LinkedIn profile. Our experience is that your website and your LinkedIn profile will be used for reference checks by people you meet. I use LinkedIn as a combination on-line bio and self-updating Rolodex. In

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Protecting Your Invention – Topic for Upcoming Breakfast

Events / By Theresa Shafer / January 21, 2009

Pete Tormey, a registered patent agent, will give a briefing on “Protecting Your Invention.” at Milpitas Bootstrappers Breakfast Feb-13-2009.

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Marketing Consultants Forum at CNSV

Community of Practice, Consulting Business, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 20, 2009

I took part in a Marketing Consultants Forum at CNSV in 2009. My focus was on “Cultivating Communities to Get More Customers.”

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Drucker on Profit and Business Purpose

1 Idea Stage, Books, Favorites, Quotes, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 18, 2009

After thinking some more about yesterday’s post on entrepreneurial motivation I thought I would re-read some Peter Drucker, his clarity and prescience continue to impress me.

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Entrepreneurial Motivation

4 Finding your Niche, Favorites, Quotes, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 17, 2009

Tim O’Reilly offers three ways to sustain entrepreneurial motivation: work on what matters to you, create more value than you capture, and take the long view.

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Chris Kappler, President of Achilles Test Systems, speaks at DV Club

skmurphy / By Theresa Shafer / January 16, 2009

On Tuesday, Feb. 3 11:30-1pm, I will be speaking at DV Club. Please letme know if you are interested in attending, and I will get you on the list. Lunch will be provided. Insights and Lessons Learned Verifying the QoS Engine of Cisco’s Quantum Flow Processor. This talk presents key lessons learned verifying the Quality

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EDAC CEO Forecast for 2009

EDA, Events, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 14, 2009

I attended the EDAC 2009 CEO forecast tonight and what follows are some quick impressions. I got there just as the event started and the Lincoln High School String Quartet was playing one of the Brandenburg concertos, and playing it very well. Room J at the San Jose convention center has an 18′ high ceiling

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Looking Down the Money Trail at CSPA

Events, skmurphy / By Sean Murphy / January 13, 2009

Looking Down the Money Trail at CSPA I attended CSPA’s “Looking Down the Money Trail” tonight at Pillsbury in Palo Alto. Pillsbury hosts a number of entrepreneur oriented events and tonight their room was overflowing. One reason was that the event had a stellar panel: Steve Bengston, Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS), PricewaterhouseCoopers

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