Three Good Books for Consultants
Here are three good books for consultants that I routinely recommend: “Trusted Advisor”, “Secrets of Consulting”, and “Rainmaking.”
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Lenny Greenberg of Assistyx at Milpitas Bootstrappers Breakfast Friday
Lenny Greenberg, a serial entrepreneur and frequent Bootstrappers Breakfast® attendee will lead our discussion this Friday about taking a long term view in business. All too often high-tech companies don’t take a long term view of their product. In the initial rush to get something to someone, companies may make tactical product choices that may
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“Startup Maturity Checklist” Slides From Today’s SVCC Session
I very much enjoyed the opportunity to present our startup stages model and the “Software Startup Maturity Checklist” at Silicon Valley Code Camp today. I have posted the slides here.
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Three Advantages of Younger Entrepreneurs in B2B Startups
Younger entrepreneurs bring several advantages to startups: a willingness to innovate, tolerance for failure, and a native facility with new technologies. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Three Advantages of Older Entrepreneurs in B2B Startups
Lost in an all too frequent age discrimination promoted by many investors are some key advantages older entrepreneurs can offer a B2B startup: connections and social capital that can find early customers, domain knowledge, and patience.
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Good Marketing is Good Content
Good content is the basis for good marketing: your messaging must explain your knowledge of customer problems and how you can help.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – September 2009
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Slides from “Limits of I’ll Know It When I See It” Talk at SFBay ACM
Here is the outline and slides from my talk at SFBay ACM on “Limits of I’ll Know it When I see it” about the fundamentals in applying expertise effectively.
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Startup Maturity Checklist Session Sun-Oct-4 1pm at SV Code Camp
I offered a Startup Maturity Checklist session at Code Camp Sun-Oct-4-2009. It was well attended: we reviewed all of the checklist items.
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Getting More Customers – A 90-day Plan
Update Tue-Oct-20: we are sold out, no walk-ins accepted. Saturday October 24 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) Pacific Business Center 1250 Oakmead Pkwy Suite 210 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 501-8800 Click here to Register: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jcqtg We will cover a variety of proven marketing techniques for growing your business: attendees will select one or
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Reminder: Limits of “I Will Know It When I See It” at SFBay ACM Sep-16-2009
Just a reminder I am speaking tomorrow night at the SFBay ACM on “The Limits of ‘I Will Know It When I See It” tomorrow night, Wednesday September 16, at 6:30pm. More information here http://www.sfbayacm.org/?p=741 Location: Hewlett Packard, Oak Room Auditorium Bldg. 48, 19447 Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014 Cost: Free and open to the
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Recognizing Terry Frazier as a Partner and Advisor
I first met Terry Frazier at the Accelerating Change Conference in 2003 and within five minutes we had progressed from small talk to a serious conversation about the future of information technology and I knew he was someone I needed to keep track of. I am way overdue in recognizing him as a partner and
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Take a Minute to Recall 8 Years Ago Part 2
Take a minute to recall 8 years ago: September 11, 2001. Here are some suggestions for translating painful memories into positive action.
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Take a Minute to Recall 8 Years Ago
It’s hard to remember a state of complete confusion. I had dropped my boys off at school and was listening to one of least funny morning comedy routines that I had heard in a while. Something about the airport but I couldn’t make any sense of it. We were scheduled to fly to St. Louis
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Conference Testimonial from Achilles Test Systems
A testimonial from Achilles Test Systems for how SKMurphy helped them focus on a niche market and develop a crisp message.
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Send Personal E-Mail
I blogged about mass E-Mails in “Please Take Me Off Of Your E-Mail Distribution List” in Sep-2007 but I got the following E-Mail recently which gave me some pause (names change to protect the repentant). Hi Sean, How is your summer going? Things are going great here at [XYZ Co]–in the past couple of quarters
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Achieving “Six Nines” When You Launch
High availability is often expressed as “nines”, or the percentage of availability in a year. Six nines is 99.9999% uptime or no more than 31.5 seconds of downtime in a year.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – August 2009
Quotes for entrepreneurs fired point blank on http://www.twitter.com/skmurphy; you can catch these quotes for entrepreneurs on the blog at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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The Limits of “I Will Know It When I See It” at SFBay ACM Sep-16-2009
Sean Murphy, CEO of SKMurphy, Inc., to speak at Silicon Valley’s SFBay ACM on September 16, 2009 at 6:30pm. He joins an international scientific and educational group dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. Join us for a briefing on how teams can become more effective at reaching a working consensus
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Nanette Collins On Volunteering: Lessons Learned from the Trenches
I’ve known Nanette Collins for 20 years and am glad she took me up on my offer of a guest blog on volunteering and managing volunteers.
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