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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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.
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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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I took part in the Marketing Consultant’s forum at CNSV tonight as a panelist, joining Ahmet Alpdemir, Brian Berg, and Peter Salmon. The slides are on the CNSV site at http://californiaconsultants.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CNSV-0901-Berg-Murphy-Alpdemir-Salmon.zip My focus was on “Cultivating Communities to Get More Customers.” I addressed joining a community with the objective of becoming a member in good standing.
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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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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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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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I attended CSPA’s “Looking Down the Money Trail” tonight at Pilsbury in Palo Alto. Pilsbury 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 Prashant Shah, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture
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One of the things that we always review with founders is their LinkedIn profile. It’s important for a several reasons: Prospects will check it either before they contact you or as they are doing more background checking on your company. The testimonials that are posted there have authenticated authorship and should also be posted on
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I attended a workshop put on by CPSquare in 2003 on Communities of Practice that had a profound impact on my worldview. I met folks from around the US who helped to foster communities of practice in corporate, education, government, and non-profit settings and was surprised at how common the both the challenges and methodologies
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Focus on establishing your team as trustworthy and dependable. The biggest question in a prospect’s mind is how your team will you perform when things go wrong. Stress earlier engagements with the problem you help your customers solve. Make this “phase two” of efforts to solve these problems, building on earlier relevant experience and accomplishments.
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Francis Adanza offers his perspective on the entrepreneurial roller coaster: you know there will be highs and lows, but you are not sure when they will occur or how long they will last.
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Paul Lippe is CEO of Legal OnRamp, a community of practice website for lawyers. He did a guest post on the AmLaw Daily Blog “Welcome to the Future: Leadership, Accountability, and Swimwear” that I enjoyed, in particular his observations on the entrepreneur’s accountability were worth bearing in mind in 2009. Paul Lippe on an Entrepreneur’s
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Believe me when I say that we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I stand before you now, truthfully, unafraid. Because I believe something you do not? No! I stand here because I remember. I remember that
I like to collect quotes. I think these are particularly appropriate quotes for entrepreneurs–your mileage may vary. I post them first on http://twitter.com/skmurphy and summarize them once a month, older blog posts about quotes are available at www.skmurphy.com/blog/category/quotes/ Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
Quotes for Entrepreneurs – December 2008 Read More »
I didn’t work Christmas Day but was glad that some other folks did.
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Three Answers We Need Before We Will Use a New Productivity App Do You Have a Pricing Model? We use many web applications to run our business and deliver services. Often our clients are also users of the application. If the application has a problem our clients hold us accountable. We need to see a
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I worked at Cisco for more than a decade in two stints between 1990 and 2003–taking time off from 1995-98 to work with a number of web startups–so I was intrigued to see John Chamber’s picture on the cover of the December issue of Fast Company. In the feature article by Ellen McGrit titled “Revolution
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Five tips for end of year planning for startup entrepreneurs. As the year draws to a close dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
Last Full Work Week of 2008: Tips for End of Year Planning Read More »
Last December Michael Arrington wrote “The Twice Shy Entrepreneur” lamenting that entrepreneurs like himself who had lived through the dotcom meltdown were more cautious. They were “once bitten, twice shy.”
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