Looking for feedback on your website? Want to improve your website? When: Friday April 17, 2009 11:30 AM -1PM (Lunch Included) Where: Plug & Play Tech Center 440 N Wolfe Rd Sunnyvale, California 94085 SKMurphy will host an upcoming Peer Review Event for Websites. Three fellow CEOs will present their website while the roundtable will […]
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Sean Murphy is speaking at Bay Area Business Growth Meetup on “Leveraging Your Referral Network to Grow Your Business”. Thursday March 19, 2009 4-6pm Pacific Business Center 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd Suite 100 Cupertino CA 95014 Register: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=177524 Referrals from satisfied customers are the best way of generating new business. In the context of established
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Getting More Customers – A 90-day Plan Update Mon-Mar-30: Sold Out. Sorry No Walk-ins (Register to be notified of upcoming events) Tuesday, March 31, 2008 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) Pacific Business Center 2225 East Bayshore Road Palo Alto CA 94303 650-320-7600 Click here to Register: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=zbmdv We will cover a variety of
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I attended a great Douglas Partner’s workshop this week. I have always been a believer in the power of a good LinkedIn profile. Our experience is that your website and your LinkedIn profile will be used for reference checks by people you meet. I use LinkedIn as a combination on-line bio and self-updating Rolodex. In
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Bootstrappers Breakfast(TM) announces Pete Tormey “the Patent Guy” (http://www.actionpatents.com) as invited guest to discuss when you need a patent and tips for getting one. Patents provide an important competitive advantage, and young companies need to develop an understanding of patents to maintain this competitive advantage.Bootstrappers Breakfast will meet at Omega Restaurant in Milpitas, Feb. 13,
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On Tuesday, Feb. 3 11:30-1pm, I will be speaking at DV Club. Please letme know if you are interested in attending, and I will get you on the list. Lunch will be provided. Insights and Lessons Learned Verifying the QoS Engine of Cisco’s Quantum Flow Processor. This talk presents key lessons learned verifying the Quality
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Anthony Scampavia interviews Ivaylo Lenkov, CEO and Software Architect at SiteKreator. Lenkov explains his team’s technique for doing daily releases.
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It is that time a year again. Where we look at what we did and what do we want to get done next year. A couple of key things we gone done this year: Refine Business Dashboard Develop speaker page with audio for our website Expanded our network of consultant to off-load support activities Developed
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I am doing end of the year status for clients. I thought it would useful to share the best case numbers as well as the worst case numbers. We had a fun year working in the areas of banking & financial services, cloud computing, consulting, EDA, health care services, medical devices & services, search &
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Nurturing Referrals Is Critical to Growth Nurturing referrals is a critical activity for every entrepreneur. A referral is an introduction to a prospect with an endorsement. They come from shared success with your customers or colleagues, someone who knows your potential and can vouch for you or your team’s ability to deliver. These individuals are
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I blogged about Sean’s talk last month but now the talk is this week and the early bird pricing runs out today. Sean is speaking Thursday November 6 at the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the IEEE Technological Management Council on “Ten Business Books in One Hour for the Busy High-Tech Executive.” The recent downturn
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Many mid-career professionals may take advantage of this latest Silicon Valley downturn to launch a consulting practice. Some of them find their way to the Bootstrappers Breakfast, where they are welcome. If they want to establish a consulting practice I encourage them to join organizations like PATCA and WIC as well. In yesterday’s Wall Street
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After blogging about how “User Communities are Critical for Complex Products” two days ago I thought I would offer some quick tips on how to get started: Be clear on the benefits to the members. So many social networking groups are very clear on how members bring benefit to a user site, but not very
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Sean is speaking Thursday November 6 at the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the IEEE Technological Management Council on “Ten Business Books in One Hour for the Busy High-Tech Executive.” Location: Ramada Inn, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale CA 94089 (See Meeting Map) Time & Date: 6-9pm (Dinner included) on Thursday November 6, 2008 Cost &
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We plan to take a closer look at four services that exhibited at Office 2.0 last week. They each have one or more compelling features that may fill gap in our current set of productivity tools. Vyew It’s a zero configuration (100% browser based, provided you have Flash and Java installed) conferencing service that makes
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I checked out some software demos on Youtube. There are all types. But here are a couple I want to talk about. First the bad … Nokia N800 Internet Tablet … Reggie Suplido of Internet Tablet Talk takes a look at the software that comes pre-installed on the new Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Next the
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Last week I attended Marketing Strategies in a Down Economy by Steve Moore. Steve stressed the importance of why you are different than your competition. One key differential can just be the reason why you started your business: what is the passion you bring to this business? Following that meeting, I updated our website home
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I am always surprised by how many basic mistakes CEOs make when giving demos. Learn to avoid them at Cohan’s Great Demo workshop. Starting the demo with your company history … who cares? Too many bullets on one slide. See Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint “Why I should care about your product” is left
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We’ve recently expanded the website to add a Startup Stages area that organizes the content based five distinct stages of evolution for a startup. It’s designed to offer you a perspective on content that’s directly relevant to your needs based on the logical next steps to build on what you have achieved. It’s an effort
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One of the strategies we cover in our Getting More Customers workshops is blogging. Below is a 90-plan developed by a workshop attendee last year, anonymized and presented with permission. Actual implementation took more than 90 days but he has been blogging for a little less than a year and has 60 blog posts that
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