Jenny Allen’s Story “I Got Sick Then I Got Better
In “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” Jenny Allen speaks candidly about surviving cancer.
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Sustaining Is More Important Than Starting
Bootstrappers are well served to focus on recurring revenue and charging early: sustaining is more important than starting.
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Two Customer Development Examples: SixApart & WowzaMedia
I answered a question recently for real examples of teams using customer development approaches to software startups and drafted the following reply for two customer development examples.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – January 2010
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Sean Murphy – I Don’t Read Him Regularly, But I Hear That I Should
A riff on Yury Tsukerman’s observation about this blog: Sean Murphy– I don’t read him regularly, but I hear that I should.”
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Lindsay Robertson Do’s and Don’ts for On-Line Publicity
Great post by Lindsay Robertson on “The Do’s and Don’ts of Online Publicity, For Some Reason” where she lists nine rules of thumb for getting publicity. Here were my top three from here list (numbers are from the original: read the whole thing): 1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE means FOR IMMEDIATE DELETE to any blogger with
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Foresight 2010 Conference Day Two
Second day at the Foresight 2010 conference on “Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)”
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Foresight 2010 Conference Day One
A roundup of some very thought provoking presentations from the first day of the Foresight 2010 conference. Interesting predictions include a $100 DNA test.
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At Foresight 2010 This Weekend
I will be at the Foresight 2010 conference on “Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)” this weekend and hope to blog some of the better sessions and anything else I learn. There is a twitter hashtag “#Foresight2010” you can use to follow conference tweets and the talks will also be broadcast on
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Federated Entrepreneurship 2
Recapping on my earlier “Federated Entrepreneurship” post from January 5. A federation is a union of partially self-governing units with a constitution that does not allow unilateral changes by a central governing body. I think it’s also a good model for what’s required to create an economically dynamic region. One parallel would be to a
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Three Useful Search Tools: Keskese, Surf Canyon, and WhosTalkin
I have been using three tools on a regular basis that I think complement Google: WhosTalkin searches a variety of conversations including twitter and blog feeds. It’s handy, quick and claims “Our search and sorting algorithms combine data taken from over 60 of the Internet’s most popular social media gateways.” SearchCanyon is useful if you
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Federated Entrepreneurship
Federated entrepreneurship was a phrase that William Krause used to explain 3Com’s model for management and innovation when he was CEO. Federation comes from a Latin word foedus for covenant or treaty and describes a union of partially self-governing units with a constitution that does not allow unilateral changes by a central governing body. It
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One Door Closes, Another Opens
I had the privilege to hear Andrew Grove address the Churchill Club on November 6, 2001 at a dinner meeting in San Jose. His autobiography “Swimming Across” had recently been published and he recounted some key events in his life in the course of his talk. After he escaped from Hungary following the collapse of
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – December 2009
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Customer Development Proceeds in Parallel with Product Development
Steve Blank had a great post today “Building a Company with Customer Data, Why Metrics Are Not Enough” that highlights the need–even for Web Startups–to get out of the BatCave and talk to strangers who may be potential prospects. Engineers in particular can feel that this is not as productive a use of their time
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Early Customer Conversations: Use Appreciative Inquiry, Amplify Positive Deviance
Appreciative Inquiry offers a solid approach for early customer interviews.Ask, “What’s working and what problems do you have?”
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Two Holiday Bootstrapper Breakfasts Added Mon-Dec-28 & Wed-Dec-30
We have added two Holiday Bootstrapper Breakfasts in the week between Christmas and New Years. This year Christmas and New Years fell on the fourth Friday and first Friday of the month which collided with two regularly scheduled breakfasts (which have been canceled). Which means that we will have a total of four breakfasts in
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John Carter to Speak at IEEE-CNSV on “Doing the Math” Tue-Dec-15-2009
John Carter CEO of TCGen is speaking on “Doing the Math: How to Estimate and Manage Results” at IEEE-CNSV on Tuesday December 15 at 7pm at KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051. The event is free and open to the public.
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Few Seats Left for Jan-12-2010 Idea to Revenue Workshop
We have a few seats left for our Jan 12, 2010 Idea to Revenue workshop in Redwood Shores, CA. If you are in formation or the early days of your startup this is a good opportunity to spend four hours on your business with your team members. We help you ask each other the hard
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Tips For A Startup’s Early Press Releases
We use eReleases which distributes over PR newswire for about half the price ($400). See http://www.ereleases.com/submit.html for details, we have been working with them for more than two years and been very pleased. Press releases are not appropriate for every startup’s marketing communication: you need to make sure that you have the right message before
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