I was selected as a celebrity spokesmodel by Techdirt for their Insight Community. They put me–as part of a group–on the cover of their brochure for the Insight Community. I always knew I had a voice made for blogging but seeing the picture made me realize that I was born with a face made for […]
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Mark Duncan gave an excellent guided tour at the October 9 SDForum Marketing SIG of several web based applications that marketing teams should consider taking advantage of in addition to (or even instead of) Microsoft Office. He opened with the observation that The applications bundled into Microsoft Office—word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, calendar, and mail–are the
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Building a strong referral base is critical to every entrepreneur. Three things you can do today to build referrals: Make a list of 30 people you have had a shared success with, go back to school, first job, etc. Contact those people tell them: What you have been up to Here’s what I am looking for,
Attending Office 2.0[1] in San Francisco, we discovered some useful tools for consultants and small teams. What is Office 2.0? Office 2.0 tools are collaboration tools that you can connect to from anywhere. They are perfect for virtual businesses or small teams. Most are sold as software as a service (SaaS) and for a low
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I will be blogging from the Office 2.0 Conference[1] for the next two days. It’s a set of tools that I have been interested in for a while–blogs, wikis, content management systems, chat/IM, VoIP–with a focus on enabling small teams to work more effectively against a deadline. This is the challenge that software startups need
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Startups offer a continuing education in entrepreneurship but effective entrepreneurs learn from other’s experience in addition to their own.
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Tom Perkins–the one with his name on the door over at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers–resigned from the board of Hewlett Packard on May 18, 2006. Initially the circumstances of his resignation were characterized as a personal decision by HP, but Mr. Perkins persevered until the true reason for his departure came to light. I
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Philipp Lenssen used his Googleblogoscope experience to craft a diagnostic quiz to assess how likely other bloggers are ink to your blog post.
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Last Tuesday, October 3, was the first of four seminars in the KASE Entrepreneurship Academy. One of the featured speakers of the evening was a serial entrepreneur by the name of Krishna “Kittu” Kolluri. Kittu was Co-Founder of Healtheon/WebMD, an on-line resource for heath information. While at WebMD he was responsible for key operational and business development
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Mark Duncan has put together a great talk on “Beyond Microsoft Office: New Tools for Marketing Productivity” for the next SDForum Marketing SIG, next Monday Oct 9 at DLA Piper Silicon Valley. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Abraham Maslow Mark offers a rich
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Mike Van Horn has a lot of good articles on his small business website. One in particular that’s worth reading is “Are You Ready for Growth?” Here are some highlights: The better teams you can build… the faster you can grow. People who grow companies rapidly know how to put a good team in place,
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Bob Bemer, among other things the inventor of ASCII, was guided by “Do Something Small, But Useful Now” during his professional career.
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If you don’t have a plan for exploiting a technology breakthrough, then by announcing it all you are doing is lighting the way for your competitors.
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Triggered by “Google Me This, Batman” I will try and make some different points. I don’t know how many times I have come back from an meeting (or event or trade show) with business cards or notes on my 3×5 cards and run the people and company names through Google to discover things that would have helped
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Welcome Entrepreneurs This blog is dedicated to entrepreneurs at any stage of their journey: as individuals, in teams, and collectively. We all hope to create a better world for our customers, our employees, our stakeholders, and our children. Our Focus: Finding Early Customers For Emerging Technologies Our focus is helping startups find early customers for emerging technologies. This is very
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Where in Silicon Valley can I meet with clients? How do I setup payroll? Can you recommend a lawyer? Where can I get insurance? What are the basic marketing concepts for a startup? See “Crucial Marketing Concepts for Startups” by Sean Murphy and Mark Duncan, April 2007 Long Version (includes Book Reviews) Short Version (just
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SKMurphy offers 3-hour workshops to software startups and consultants, where you develop a one-page ACTION plan to build your business and we provide follow-up to hold you accountable. We are not promising a fast and easy way to obtain customers. Our methodology of setting goals, developing plans, and exploring options will help you build a
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