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Matt Oscamou of Frontier Bites on the value of the Bootstrapper Breakfast

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Matt Oscamou, the founder of Frontier Bites, talked about lessons learned getting a food startup off the ground at the April 15 Bootstrapper Breakfast in Sunnyvale. Here is a short recording of his introduction, the benefits the Bootstrapper Breakfast® has offered him, and how he came to bootstrap Frontier Bites with his brother and persevere […]

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What is Lean? Lean Innovation 101 on May 27, 2014

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Sean Murphy is honored to speak at Linked CXO Forum on Tuesday, May 27th, 2014 at Haworth Showroom in San Francisco, California. Linked CXO provides networking for senior executives – “Bosses Need Professional Development, Too.” “Lean” provides a scientific approach for creating a product and developing new businesses. Teams can build products or services to

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Recap of “How To Give a Great Demo” at CoFounders Club Wed-Apr-16-2014

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I had a nice time at last night’s Cofounder Club. Dea Wilson, founder of Lifograph, invited me to talk about “Giving a Killer Demo.”  We had  a lively discussion upstairs at Procopio: starting with some introductions and then short demos by the attendees, then I gave a formal recap of the Great Demo methodology and how to apply

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Learn How to Market Your Expertise March 25 in Sunnyvale

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Whether you are a software startup or a consultant you have to convince prospects that you have the expertise to solve their problems by what you say, what you write, and what others say about you. This three hour workshop will outline a mix of proven marketing techniques for generating leads for your business. Attendees will

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Video from Lean Innovation 101 Talk at SF Bay ACM Nov-20-2013

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The video from my “What is Lean–Lean Innovation 101” talk is up: Here is the description for the talk “Lean” provides a scientific approach for creating a product and developing new businesses. Teams can iteratively building products or services to meet the needs of early customers by adopting a combination of customer development, business-hypothesis-driven experimentation

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IEEE-CNSV Panel Explores Engineering in Japan vs Silicon Valley Mon-Mar-3

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IEEE-CNSV Panel Explores Engineering in Japan vs Silicon Valley Mon-Mar-3 I am helping to moderate a panel 7pm Mon-Mar-3 at IEEE-CNSV on “Innovation: Work and Life of the Engineer in Japan and Silicon Valley” The event takes place at Agilent Technologies, Inc. in the Aristotle Room, Bldg. 5 located at 5301 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa

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Getting More Customers Workshop on March 25, 2014

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Let’s face it, finding customers can be quite a challenge. In this interactive workshop, we will cover a variety of proven marketing techniques for growing your business: attendees will select one or two that fit their style and develop a plan to implement them in their business in the next 90 days. Speaking – small

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Semifore Execs Share Bootstrapping Lessons and 2014 Scaling Up Plans at Jan-17-2014 MVP Clinic

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Semifore , Inc. was founded in 2006 by Richard Weber based on his system design experience at several startups and some larger systems firms. All of them struggled with the need for  tools and methods to keep the hardware architecture in sync with software architecture and to ensure that the development and customer documentation was

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Join Us Tonight For A Mastermind Open House To Kick Off 2014

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We have been facilitating Mastermind groups in Silicon Valley for three years now and have  an open houses scheduled tonight in Sunnyvale from 6-8pm. When: Mon-Jan-13 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM in Sunnyvale Where: Tonight at Roundtable Pizza 1220 Oakmead Parkway Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Cost: No Charge for event but regular meetings are two hours long twice a

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Lean Startup Conference 2013 Roundup

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This post curates content and commentary related to the 2013 Lean Startup Conference: videos, blog posts, slides, articles, etc.. I will continue to update it until about mid-February 2014 as videos, slide decks, blog posts and articles related to the 2013 Lean Startup Conference are published. If I have overlooked a post or other content

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Peer Advisors

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Mastermind groups complement our Bootstrappers Breakfast meetings, they are for entrepreneurs who want to meet with a smaller group of the same people on a regular basis and really get to know each others’ businesses. In addition to the four Bootstrapper Breakfasts in Silicon Valley we facilitate three Mastermind groups. Napoleon Hill coined the Mastermind

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Two Mastermind Open House Events in November and December

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SKMurphy Mastermind groups have a unique high-technology focus and are limited to eight qualified members. We guide a small group of peers to brainstorm and critique your critical business issues. Our use of ‘workout buddies’ provides a level of feedback and joint accountability that will help you to become more effective. Entrepreneurs have the opportunity to

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Chris Christensen of BloggerBridge At Bootstrappers Breakfast Tue-Nov-19

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Join other entrepreneurs for serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cash flow and organic profit at a Bootstrappers Breakfast®. Chris Christensen of BloggerBridge.com will offer a seven minute briefing on “Podcasting For Bootstrappers” and answer questions from other attendees at the Tue-Nov-19 breakfast in Sunnyvale. Chris’ briefing will be followed by our regular roundtable

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