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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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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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 key challenge in advising entrepreneurs is to help them walk around the options and explore the consequences of each decision.
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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 –
You’ve Launched, Now What? at KASE/KIN Oct 16 Read More »
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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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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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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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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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, 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 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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We exhibited at CINACon 2007 over the weekend, and took turns rotating through the sessions. It was a great conference for entrepreneurs and it was a great conference for us: we had the opportunity to talk to a number of very early stage firms (including some of the other exhibitors in the Rising Stars Showcase)
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EDAC has announced a program for Wed-Sep-26 on “The Future of Media and What it Means to EDA Companies.” So far so good, but they’ve invited the crew that laid off Richard Goering. I am much more interested in getting advice from the team that hired him. The EDAC announcement reads (links added) Paul Miller,
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Anonymous Coward landing pages don’t inspire trust or confidence in prospects, as a result few contact you. Startups should sign their work. Requiring a signed NDA before providing basic information also deters inquiries.
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We will be exhibiting at the “Rising Stars Showcase” at CINACon 2007. Register here for a great program that includes a keynote by Steve Westly on “The Past, Present and Future of Green” and these distinguished speakers: Raymond Hsu, Founding Chairman of CINA Ricky Ma, General Manager, ICT, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Scott
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“Please take me off of your email distribution list.” This is, alas, a one line email that I now find myself sending several times a week. It’s part of my effort shrink my E-mail backlog, although I have no more hope than Canute of stemming the incoming tide, but it gives me the illusion of
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I was saddened to read that Alfred H. Peet, the founder of Peet’s Coffee and Tea had passed away on August 29.
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Here are ten oblique strategies to help get you and your team unstuck. The first line is the oblique strategy with added for a startup.
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A summary of Paul Saffo’s talk on “Forecasting Innovation in Silicon Valley” at the Churchill Club on Tue-Aug-28-2007. Saffo drew on his recent HBR Article “Six Rules for Effective Forecasting.”
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