Quotes for Entrepreneurs Collected in February 2022
Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in February 2022, theme this month is detecting and managing anomalies and outliers.
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Adam Starrh: have the courage to listen, cultivate mindfulness
An interview with Adam Starrh on lessons learned building a distribution network to sell California almonds and pistachios in India.
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Seven Insights from “Solving for Pattern” by Wendell Berry
In “Solving for Pattern,” Wendell Berry writes about organic farming principles. Still, he offers a systems perspective applicable to startups and growing businesses that need to develop both staff and technology to thrive.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in January 2022
Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in January 2022, theme this month is orchestration: documenting innovation related methods and processes to create consistent and predictable results.
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Michal Mazurek on Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Syften
A Q&A with Michal Mazurek, the founder of Syften, on lessons learned bootstrapping a monitoring and analytics startup.
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Michael Frayn: Two Heisenberg Speeches from Copenhagen
Two speeches by Werner Heisenberg from the play Copenhagen by Michael Frayn. The first is a clever description of the uncertainty principle and the second explores the horrors of war.
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Eliza Calvert Hall: Piecing a Quilt is Like Living a Life
An excerpt from “Aunt Jane of Kentucky” by Eliza Calvert Hall that explores piecing a quilt as a metaphor for making the most of your life.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in December 2021
Quotes for Entrepreneurs Curated in December 2021, theme this month is going deep to find ground truth and a solid foundation to build on.
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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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