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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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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Athol Foden‘s encouragement I have submitted the following session (links added) for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp has now finalized the session schedule and my Software Startup Maturity Checklist session is set for Sunday, October 4 at 1pm in Room 5501. The description follows: This session is for both aspiring and active entrepreneurs. We
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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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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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I came across a great way to translate 9/11 memories into action by James Lileks in Brian Dunbar’s “Remember” Remember. But move forward, too. Light a candle, yes. But also drive a rivet. It’s from a longer post Lileks wrote on Sep-13-2004 looking back on 9/11. Here are the closing paragraphs. I had thought about
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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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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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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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I have known Nanette Collins for the better part of two decades and was delighted when she took me up on my offer of a guest blog on volunteering and managing volunteers. She is the principal at Nanette V. Collins Marketing and PR with offices in Boston and San Francisco and one the web at
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Here are my key takeaways from a thought-provoking panel at DAC09 on “Tweet, Blog, or News: How Do I Stay Current?”
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A couple of high level impressions. Here my notes from the “Managing Project Health” BoF at DAC 2009. After sitting through the presentations back to back I saw the outline of a four layer model for design management data stability – essentially what companies like Cliosoft or open source tools like CVS offer provisioning –
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I suggested that the “Managing Project Health” Birds of a Feather was one of the “Opportunities for Serious Conversation at DAC 2009” and it proved to be a very thought provoking session. When design teams try and assess “Project Health” they are normally trying to determine where they are (or what’s been accomplished and what
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See DAC 2010 Blog Coverage Roundup for 2010 Roundup. Sunday Events Daniel Payne on Sunday at DAC – What really happens in the Press Room? Grant Martin on “Day 0 of DAC…Welcome Reception“ Richard Goering on “Gary Smith’s Prescription for Explosive Growth“ Frank Schirrmeister on “#46DAC Is On The Way…With Guaranteed Standing Ovation“ John Donovan
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Bouncing back from a setback is a challenge that entrepreneurs need to navigate repeatedly. Bouncing Back On Hacker News about 18 months ago someone posted a question on “Dealing with Post Startup Depression” that read I recently shut down my first startup ever. I am having a really tough time getting over it and starting
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This was originally published as “Impact of Social Media Tools on the Speed of Team Decision Making” in the July 14 DACEzine. I am re-publishing it here as a reminder for the “Tweet, Blog or News: How Do I Stay Current?” Pavilion Panel tomorrow Wednesday July 29, 4:00 – 5:00pm at the Design Automation Conference. One
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I blogged about some “Opportunities for Serious Conversation at DAC 2009” and wanted to fill in some details Mon 10:30-11:00 at Synopsys’ Conversation Central “Global Teams and Multi-Firm Collaboration” Tue 10:30-11:00 at Synopsys’ Conversation Central “Global Teams and Multi-Firm Collaboration” Wed 10:30-11:00 at Synopsys’ Conversation Central “Global Teams and Multi-Firm Collaboration” Format 1 minute introduction
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