Baked fresh on @skmurphy these quotes for entrepreneurs and collected into a blog post at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
Quotes for Entrepreneurs – November 2009 Read More »
Thanksgiving 2009: to be self-employed in a downturn is a wonderful opportunity–I don’t have to worry about getting laid off.
We are meeting in Mountain View at 9am at Red Rock Coffee for a Bootstrapper Breakfast: it’s the fourth Friday of the month. Take a break from the four day Thanksgiving weekend and join us Friday for a Bootstrapper Breakfast in Mountain View at Red Rock Coffee. It may be a more intimate session for
There is a Bootstrapper Breakfast This Friday at Red Rock Coffee Read More »
We’ve streamlined our home page and highlighted our advisory services, our sales and marketing support, audio and video for some recent presentations, and our Bootstrapper Breakfast events. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. The workshop page now highlights a September 2009 talk at SF BAY ACM “The Limits of I’ll Know It When I See
Updated Home Page, Let Us Know What You Think Read More »
Just a quick reminder, the early bird rate ends next week 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
Early Bird for Jan-2010 “Idea to Revenue” Ends Next Week Read More »
If you are updating your website, here a couple of things you want to make sure you do: Add Google Analytics to your new pages. Add permanent redirects (HTTP 301) for any pages you have moved/renamed to preserve search engine ranking. View your website on multiple browsers (at least the latest versions of Internet Explorer
Updating Your Website? Don’t Forget … Read More »
A thank you on Veterans Day 2009 to all of the men and women in our armed forces who make this Silicon Valley oasis of rationality and innovation possible. Veterans Day 2009 “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us
Ben Foden has been working with us part time; the following is a blog post he developed on creating genuine connections with social media.
Ben Foden on “Creating Genuine Connections with Social Media” Read More »
There has been a lot written about various aspects of social media: what tools to use, how disruptive it is, how to develop and/or demonstrate expertise. Here are four rules of thumb we follow. To establish a reputation you have to be visible or reasonably well known, but it’s more important to be known for
Social Media for Startups: “Less is More” Read More »
Marc Andreessen started a new VC firm, Andreesen Horowitz, in July but has yet to explain why he deleted his excellent series of articles on entrepreneurship from his site. I am glad that Jed Christiansen has rescued them from bit rot. Two posts that are definitely worth reading: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4:
Marc Andreessen’s Entrepreneurial Insights Rescued from Bit Rot by Jed Christiansen Read More »
I use LinkedIn very differently than many of the folks I meet when I am out and about in Silicon Valley. I normally only link to people I have had shared success with. I do not link with folks who I have just casually met. I believe it’s important to keep track of folks I
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These quotes for entrepreneurs are added as I find them on http://www.twitter.com/skmurphy and then collected into a post at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Sometimes paradigms do shift. Amazon announced today that its Elastic Cloud Computing now supports high memory instances: High-Memory Instances Instances of this family offer large memory sizes for high throughput applications, including database and memory caching applications. High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34.2 GB of memory, 13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25
Amazon High Memory Instances Will Enable More EDA Apps to Move to the Cloud Read More »
George Grellas offered some great advice on the difference between insightful and “window dressing” advisory boards on Hacker News I have reprinted here with his permission
George Grellas on Insightful vs. “Window Dressing” Advisory Boards Read More »
We had a good “Getting More Customers” workshop today, here is the feedback that we gathered and a heads-up on some plans for 2010. We added three numeric ratings to our feedback form this time (which shrank the space for comments). Numeric Ratings (1 Poor to 5 Excellent) Importance of Topic: 4.75 Content: 4.75 Quality
Feedback from Sat-Oct-24 “Getting More Customers” Read More »
Someone with the label selfemploy posted the following question (note the fact that he is in Bangalore appears later in the thread, I have included it in the body of the question) on Hacker News earlier this month. As the recession continues to affect not only in Silicon Valley but many engineers around the world
4 Steps to Prepare for a Startup While You are Still Employed Read More »
Sean Murphy joins the eMobus advisory board. He has been assisting the eMobus team on strategies for pricing, new customer acquisition, leveraging their cloud computing infrastructure, and effective differentiation of their services.
Sean Murphy Joins eMobus Advisory Board Read More »
A blog post from October 2006 “Administrivia in Startups” made the following points I had lunch with Sylvia Nessan, a veteran of Synopsys, CoWare, and several high tech startups and she made an observation that I thought was worth writing down: the founding team, and CEO in particular, don’t pay enough attention to how much
Administrivia Revisited Read More »
Marc Smith proposes four key roles for managing a wiki or other social media platform: domain expert, diplomat, editor, and vandal hunter.
Expert, Editor, Diplomat, Vandal Hunter Read More »
Many entrepreneurs planning their first software startup get stuck on funding and ownership issues. Here are some simple rules of thumb that may help you reframe an issue: Revenue, especially break even revenue, is never dilutive of your ownership. The right co-founders, while dilutive, substantially increase your chances of success: they give you a smaller
8 Tips for Evaluating Funding Alternatives Read More »
