Two CEO Speeches I Still Remember
Two very good CEO speeches I still remember, in each case a good leader put himself in the same boat with the rest of us during tough times.
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Jerome K. Jerome on Work
A passage from chapter 15 of Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat” captures the risk that an attitude of perfectionism toward work can hinder startup founders.
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Quotes for Entrepreneurs – May 2008
Continuing my twitter experiment from April I try to select a good quote every couple of days that is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. I collect these quotes for entrepreneurs into a blog 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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Bloggers Covering Electronic Design Automation
Note: this list updated to more than 200 at “EDA Bloggers 2009“ Ever since EE Times laid off Richard Goering (and seemed like it was no longer committed to covering EDA) I have been meaning to map the EDA Blogosphere. When JL Gray suggested a Blogging Birds of a Feather at DAC (scheduled for Wednesday
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NuSym De-Cloaks 5
It’s been 18 months since I last wrote about NuSym, a hardy perennial in EDA that’s a testament to the unique value of venture funding in building an EDA company (Athena Design is another). Perhaps only a venture backed EDA startup can launch without a product or a customer (note to bootstrappers: please don’t try
Engineering Your Sales Process May 14 is Sold Out
Tomorrow’s “Engineering Your Sales Process” workshop is sold out: we are at capacity and cannot accept walk-ins. We will offer this workshop again in the fall. We are planning our second half and will be offering workshops both on an open enrollment basis and as custom engagements for one startup. There are advantages to both
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Information That’s Not Written Down
There is a category of information that’s not written down (yet). It arises in private conversations, email, talks in more informal settings. It’s a tremendous source of competitive advantage on new and emerging markets.
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Five Questions to Ask Yourself Twice a Year
Here are five questions to ask yourself at least twice a year to help you improve your rate of learning.
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Quote for Entrepreneurs–April 2008
I have been trying to select a good quote every couple of days that is applicable to the challenges of entrepreneurship. What follows are the balance of quotes for entrepreneurs that I selected in April 2008. For the first part see Quotes for Founders
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Need a Conference Room?
For Silicon Valley our favorite location to meet clients is American Executive Center. Depending on the requirements for the meeting we use a number of places outlined at meeting locations. Full Calendar is another great source for meeting venues. It’s a great list and far more encompassing than ours. Enter “venues” in the search form.
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Life Is Too Short
A couple of quotes for entrepreneurs that offer thought-provoking variations on the theme “life is too short.”
Three Excellent “Micro Hacks” from VentureHacks
VentureHacks offered three “micro hacks” today that I thought were very good operating principles for bootstrapping ventures as well. Don’t ask investors what they think. Ask your customers. It’s easier to get money from a customer than an investor. It’s easier to get real feedback on your offer as well. Customers are much less susceptible
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Strategy is a Hypothesis
I think the best approach to crafting strategy is the view that strategy is a hypothesis and metrics are the data for testing the hypothesis.
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Getting More Customers Workshop April 18 is Sold Out
Tomorrow’s Getting More Customers workshop is sold out. We are at capacity at FortisGC for this workshop and cannot accept walk-ins. We will offer this workshop again in the fall. We are offering a new one, “Engineering Your Sales Process“, next month: Building a repeatable sales process is key to a sustainable business, understanding how
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Nick Tredennick @ SF Bay ACM This Wednesday Evening
There has been a last minute substitution and Nick Tredennick will be speaking on the next transition in computing: performance per watt. Full details are on the SF Bay ACM website. Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 6:30 PM Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions), Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room. Cost: Free and open
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Chess Quotes for Entrepreneurs
Some chess quotes for entrepreneurs. You can follow @skmurphy to get these quotes for entrepreneurs hot off the mojo wire or wait until the end of the month when they are collected on the blog. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
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Andrew Olmsted’s Final Post
Major Andrew Olmsted was killed in Iraq on Jan. 3, 2008. Olmsted was a blogger who left behind a final post for posthumous publication.
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Highlighting Matt Maroon’s “Why Not To Do A Startup”
Some key takeaways from a blog post by Matt Maroon on “Why Not To Do A Startup”
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Getting More Customers Next Friday Morning at Redwood Shores
We are changing things up next week and offering our “Getting More Customers” on a Friday instead of a Saturday at a location that’s farther north than we’ve ever gone: Redwood Shores. The FortisGC folks have graciously allowed us to use their main conference room. The Getting More Customers workshop will give you focused time
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Quotes for Founders
Inspired by Dharmesh Shah I have also started to post these quotes for founders irregularly to my Twitter account. But to save you from having to add one more time sucking application that would take you away from your E-mail I will also be posting them in batches (at the end of the month after
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