A Good Idea is No Match for a Bad Habit
Some great insights from a column by Frank Hayes on “Conventional IT Wisdom” including: “A good idea is no match for a bad habit.”
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A World Built by Scientists and Engineers But Run by Salespeople
“We live in a world built by scientists and engineers, but salespeople run it.”
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Crucial Marketing Concepts for Technology Introduction at SF Bay ACM Wrap-up
So last night’s talk at the SF Bay ACM on “Crucial Marketing Concepts for Technology Introduction” was a blast. If you missed it we didn’t hand out slides but we did hand out copies of the short form of the Crucial Marketing Concepts article. It was a very technical audience, almost entirely software engineers and
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Your Pre-Viral Marketing Plan
Google’s acquisition of YouTube seems to have captured the imagination of a lot of entrepreneurs that we meet at various events, in particular everyone wants to start a consumer Internet or media oriented businesses based on “viral marketing.” Here are a couple of key questions to answer for your pre-viral marketing plan, or what you
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Join the ACM & Improve Your Peripheral Vision
Join the ACM and improve your peripheral vision–keep track of technical developments in related fields that may impact your business
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Dutch Business Breakfast at US Market Access Center
I had the opportunity to attend a “Dutch Business Breakfast” that morning. It was organized by the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and held at the US Market Access Center. There were three speakers who addressed the challenges of European firms coming to Silicon Valley, followed by individual presentations by about a dozen Dutch startups. Chris
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Crucial Marketing Concepts for Technology Introduction at SF Bay ACM Wed 11-14-2007
I will be giving a presentation next week at the SF Bay ACM on “Crucial Marketing Concepts for Technology Introduction.” The event starts at 6:30 next Wednesday, November 14. It will be held in the Oak Room of Bldg 48 at Hewlett Packard, which is at the corner of Pruneridge and Wolfe in Cupertino (or
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Joseph A. Murphy (1925-2007)
My father, Joseph Murphy, died suddenly of a heart attack at home in St. Louis last night with my mother and brother present. He had been to see his internist that morning and gotten a clean bill of health. He would have been 82 in a week.
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Dharmesh Shah’s Pithy Thoughts For Startup Co-Founders
I really liked “Pithy Thoughts For Startup Founders” by Dharmesh Shah. This post uses six as a point of departure for exploring the challenges of getting a startup off the ground.
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Three Phrases Prospects Should Not Find On Your Website
Please Come Back Soon accompanied by a promise of more information shortly. If you do, don’t put a date next to it because when that date is three months old prospects get a “lost dial tone” sensation, they are not sure your firm is still active. Variations that are equally annoying: Please check back soon
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Don’s Three Rules of Deal Making
Three rules of thumb on deal making I took away from a conversation with an electrical engineer and serial entrepreneur.
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The Challenge of Advising Entrepreneurs
The key challenge in advising entrepreneurs is to help them walk around the options and explore the consequences of each decision.
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You’ve Launched, Now What? at KASE/KIN Oct 16
I will be speaking on “Now What? Your Post Launch Growth Plan” at the KASE / KIN Entrepreneur Academy tomorrow night. Location: KIICA Silicon Valley at 3003 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 Agenda 5:50PM – 6:00PM Registration and Networking 6:00PM – 6:30PM Successful Entrepreneur – Paul Tien 6:30PM – 6:45PM Break 6:45PM –
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Quotes on Operational Excellence
I collect quotes for entrepreneurs, here are a set quotes on operational excellence. You can follow @skmurphy to get quotes for entrepreneurs hot off the mojo wire or wait until they are collected in a blog post at the end of each month. Enter your E-mail address if you would like have new blog posts
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Founder’s Story: Rick Munden of FMF & Epiphyte
I first met Rick Munden more than a decade ago when we were both managers attending an Electronic Design Process workshop. I ran into him last December at an SDForum Emerging Technologies SIG meeting and we renewed our acquaintance. I invited him to our Bootstrapper’s Breakfast since he was mulling his new company Epiphyte. This
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GABA Panel on Communication Wrap Up
I had mentioned that I was going to be on a panel at a GABA event on “Communications Today: Blogs, Email Etiquette and More” that was held tonight at SAP on Hillview Avenue in Palo Alto. It addressed a broad theme with four speakers (Jennifer Lankheim was a no show) from fairly different backgrounds in
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GABA Panel on Communication
I will be a panelist for a GABA event on “Communications Today: Blogs, Email Etiquette and More” that will be held tomorrow night at SAP, Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto CA 94304; the event starts at 6:30 with networking–complimentary appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks will be served–and the formal program at 7:30. Moderator: E.J.Dieterle, CEO,
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Triples, Inspired by Dorai Thodla
Inspired by Dorai Thodla’s “Triples and Congruence.” Budget, Quality, Time (project parameters aka “Iron triangle” pick any two, solve for third) Expert/Technician, Manager, Entrepreneur (E-Myth roles in a business) Beginning, Middle, End (elements of a story) Early Adopters, Mainstream, Laggards (measures of risk aversion in a population) Team, Technology, Traction (VC tests for quality of
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Hugh MacLeod’s Thoughts on Being an Entrepreneur 2
Hugh MacLeod, the matchbook cartoon artist, had a great post in January on “Random Thoughts on Being an Entrepreneur” that I am going to cherry pick for a few that I thought were excellent. I have preserved his original numbering (putting the thought in the cartoon at 0). 0. If you can express your soul,
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Bob “GoDaddy” Parson’s Rules for Business Success
Bob Parsons of GoDaddy blogged his “16 Rules for Success in Business (and Life in General)” in July of 2006. A question he received at a 2004 speaking event–“What advice do you have for someone who is just starting a business?”–kicked off an effort by the serial entrepreneur to codify the principles he was living
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