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Sales 2.01 addresses some additional thoughts on the Sales 2.0 conference, the focus is on enabling customer self-service
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Yesterday’s post talked about traction as the ability to set and hit goals. Here are three tests for goals to determine if they well-formed for your startup team.
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The Venture Hacks e-book “Pitching Hacks” offers good advice for entrepreneurs whether they are bootstrapping or seeking investment.
Pitching Hacks Has $20 Worth of Advice for Bootstrappers As Well Read More »
Networking is good questions, listening, and helping others. Carry more than your own card. Connect folks who will benefit from talking.
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100+ EDA Blogs: I have updated the “Bloggers Covering Design Automation” list so that it now has over 100 listed. I think remain on track for 500 blogs by 2011 as I had predicted in “What Happens when 70 EDA Blogs Become 500 in 2011.” It’s clear that this will create a number of opportunities
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Customer relationship management is enabled by authentic human connection: conversation, hand crafted replies, and other person to person communication.
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I found myself wandering on a dark road in the rain last night, looking for a meetup organized by Tatyana Kanzaveli that featured a talk by Rob Weltman on “Cloud Computing: Using the Open Source Hadoop to Generate Data-Intensive Insights.” The event was in a banquet room at the Samovar Deli at 1077 Independence Ave
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Spellr.us Is So Good That I Want To Pay For It I sent Kevin Garber an E-Mail yesterday afternoon “I love the product, I would like to pay for it.” I had spent about twenty hours in the last week cleaning up typo’s on www.skmurphy.com and www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com (first of all who knew that there were
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In “The Challenges of Measuring Non-Existent Markets” Scott D. Anthony outlines four principal challenges in measuring non-existent markets: Data does not yet exist. When a market doesn’t exist, there are no baseline market research reports or time-series data sets to analyze. Lack of comparable products. Without existing data, there is a natural tendency to look
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I worked at Monolithic Memories from 1984 until 1988, in 1985 Irwin Federman, who was CEO at the time announced that the company was informally banning meetings on Fridays. It seemed reasonable to me and I thought it would probably make us more productive. A few weeks later he announced that the company was going
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William Feather’s “Dead Business” details the stark differences between a going concern and all the agreements and understandings that have been reached to make it viable, and a bankrupt one.
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We have a little over 400 posts up on the blog since we started with “Welcome Entrepreneurs” on October 1, 2006. I thought I would offer some guidance to newer readers on which have been the most popular. I have looked at popularity through three lenses: feed clickthroughs, unique page views, and total page views.
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One of the things I like to do is re-work and improve comments I have left in forums or on other blogs into posts on this blog. I have been using Backtype for a few weeks now and have found it useful for keeping track of other places I have commented. You need to register
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I took part in the Marketing Consultant’s forum at CNSV tonight as a panelist, joining Ahmet Alpdemir, Brian Berg, and Peter Salmon. The slides are on the CNSV site at http://californiaconsultants.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CNSV-0901-Berg-Murphy-Alpdemir-Salmon.zip My focus was on “Cultivating Communities to Get More Customers.” I addressed joining a community with the objective of becoming a member in good standing.
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After thinking some more about yesterday’s post on entrepreneurial motivation I thought I would re-read some Peter Drucker, his clarity and prescience continue to impress me.
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Tim O’Reilly offers three ways to sustain entrepreneurial motivation: work on what matters to you, create more value than you capture, and take the long view.
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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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