Cultivating Luck in Business Endeavors and Relationships
Brendan McAdams and Sean Murphy discuss cultivating luck in business endeavors and relationships.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in November 2021
Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in November 2021, theme this month is gratitude and counting your blessings.
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Thanksgiving 2021: The Road Goes On
Thoughts of gratitude on Thanksgiving 2021: the road goes on and we follow in the path of those who came before us, building on their accomplishments and insights.
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Howard Dernehl: Awareness and Perceiving Without Bias
Howard Dernehl documents common perceptual biases and offers suggestions for how to cultivate awareness and perceiving without bias.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in October 2021
Quotes for entrepreneurs curated in October of 2021, theme this month is self-improvement and raising the floor of your capabilities.
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How We Picked Our Tagline “Early Customers and Early Revenue”
In Ed Ipser’s recent Lean Canvas workshop I shared how we picked our tagline “early customers and early revenue.”
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xMentium Reframes Contract Management as Faster Deals
xMentium Reframes Contract Management as Faster Deals What follows is a quick look at xMentium’s current positioning and some lessons I have learned from their realization of the customer’s true need–or at least the need that emerged once you have contracts under revision control in a searchable repository. SKMurphy has been an advisor since February
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in September 2021
Quotes for Entrepreneurs curated in September 2021, theme this month is managing doubt and discomfort, leveraging surprise.
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9-11 Twenty Years Later: An American Cultural Watershed
I have blogged about 9-11 14 times, starting with Lesser Sons of Greater Fathers in 2008. 9-11 is an American cultural watershed as transformative an event as Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination, and the Moon landing.
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Engineering Your Sales Process Bootcamp
Engineering Your Sales Process will help you learn from common sales problems by using conscious planning and experimentation. Traditional sales training stresses “every no moves you closer to a yes.” Designing and debugging a repeatable sales process is key to a sustainable business, and we’ll address how to diagnose common problems to determine likely root
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Three Insights from Dr. Edward Baker’s “Scoring a Whole in One”
This post explores three insights from Dr. Edward Baker’s “Scoring a Whole in One.” First, individuals must understand the enterprise context they operate in; second, leaders must serve and connect; and third, practice is necessary for improvement but does not lead to perfection.
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3D Negotiation: Pricing for Early Customers
Pricing for early customers must compensate them for the risks of adopting early. Startups need revenue, references, and case studies
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Robert de Neve: Mechatronics is key differentiator products in the 2020’s
Robert de Neve offered an interesting prediction in his Aug-11-2021 briefing on the 4th Industrial Revolution: your ability to win in your market space will depend on your ability to add mechatronics design to your repertoire.
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Tom Tugendhat on the Value of Patience
In an Aug-18-2021 speech to House of Commons, Tom Tugendhat emphasizes the need for patience and persistence to achieve peace.
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Peer Advisory Group: Digital Health Consultants and Materials Science Engineers
Digital health and materials science engineering are driving significant new opportunities. We have a new peer advisory group for consultants operating in these areas.
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Brian Norgard Offers Pithy Insights From the Trenches of Entrepreneurship
I am not sure which of these tweets brought Brian Norgard (@BrianNorgard) to my attention; he offers pithy insights from the trenches of entrepreneurship.
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs Curated in July 2021
Quotes for entrepreneurs curated in July of 2021, theme this month is developing and refining ideas
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Morgan Housel: Beware the Intellectual Arrogance of “Too Smart”
In “Too Smart” Morgan Housel outlines three risks of intellectual arrogance: a lack of empathy, poor communication, and poor grasp of detail.
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Why is an Enterprise Sale So Complex?
An enterprise sale is a significant source of opportunity for startups, but it is a complex undertaking with many moving parts and many people involved. This article is the result of a collaboration with Brendan McAdams (@BrendanMcAdams), a sales and marketing professional focused on B2B clients in healthcare.
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Independence Day 2021: A Promissory Note to Every American
Some quotes and observations on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as a promissory note to all Americans.
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