So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“So Good They Can’t Ignore You” by Cal Newport offers a very good model for creating a good career or prospering as an entrepreneur.
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What a Mixmaster our dreams are for our memories
I take a fair amount of inspiration from dreams, which I believe are a way for the mind to reprocess memories into new configurations, the same way that a mixmaster can beat eggs or potatoes into a smooth consistency. I think dreams are a way of reprocessing experiences and distilling additional insights and learning.
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Founder Story: Steven Kim of edify.me
An interview with Steven Kim, founder of edify.me which provides very well written summaries of business and personal improvement books. I think his summary of the Lean Startup is by far the best and most useful, I profiled it last year in “E-Book Summary for Lean Startup”
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How Do I Move From Being Capable to Offering Expert Consulting?
Offering expert consulting means developing a specialization and focus that enables you to execute with distinction. The phrases “finding the niche for your product” and “product-market fit” are equivalent. A key definition of a market is that members reference each other’s buy decisions, and therefore, building up a set of references lowers your next prospect’s
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Vinod Khosla on the Need for Vision and the Value of Youth
A review of some remarks by Vinod Khosla on “Silicon Valley Vision” in 2012 and the value of youth from the Nasscom conference in November 2011. I contrast that with an earlier article by Jim Collins on “Built to Flip.”
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Something Ventured: Make Money and Change the World for the Better
One documentary worth watching to get some context on the history of entrepreneurship and venture capital is “Something Ventured.” It’s a series of interviews with venture capitalists talking about their investments and their risk mitigation strategies in the 1950s through 1970s. It’s clear that they paid a lot of attention to “minimum viable products” and
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A Childhood Memory or Two
I had strong memory this morning of riding my bike down a hill on the street in front of our house. The air was skin warm and after the heat of the summer was a delightful caress, going downhill I did not have to pedal and it was like flying. It’s hard to recapture the
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Kinetic River Awarded NCI Contract for Modular Flow Cytometer
Kinetic River Corp. has been awarded contract from the National Cancer Institute for a modular flow cytometer that will be used to test novel laser sources for applicability to flow cytometry. It will also serve as a test bed for new detectors, electronics and other technologies critical to the future of flow cytometry.
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Explore Your Fit With Potential Startups Oct-17-2017
The Cofounder Academy is offering an innovative event at the Hacker Dojo on Mon-Oct-17 for cofounders to explore your fit with potential startups.
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Dark Watchman vs. The Architect of Fear
This is a republished version of a blog post I did originally on July-21-2008 on the FunMurphys.com blog. It’s a meditation on fighting terrorism and creating a common enemy to foster collaboration. Architect of fear has a dual meaning: both the terrorist (e.g. the Joker in the movie “The Dark Knight”) and the scientists in
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Quotes For Entrepreneurs–September 2016
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The Customer Determines The Details That Matter
The customer determines the details that matter in assessing the quality of your product. Here is a true story where this was brought home to me.
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Q: What Lessons Should I Draw From A Painful Cofounder Experience?
A painful cofounder experience is unfortunately more common than a happy one. It can be especially painful when the parties don’t know each well to begin with and the business startup fails. Here is a real email exchange that explores some ways to minimize the risks.
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Why Startup Founders Choose SKMurphy As An Advisor
From conversations with current and former clients we have reached some conclusions about why startup founders choose SKMurphy as an advisor. Here is a summary.
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Newsletter: Pricing to Value
Our September/October 2016 newsletter explores different aspects of the challenge pricing to value: setting the price of your product based on the value that it offers a prospect.
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13 Tips For Getting Up Early and Arriving Early
I like getting up early and arriving early. But I find the hours late at night can unlock a lot of creativity so I often get up late unless I schedule something early. I also like working up to the last possible moment–what is it about the last few minutes before you have to leave that are
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Working in Silence
I can be very productive with a certain amount of background noise. I find it easier to write if there is music playing or if I am in a moderately noisy coffee house where many conversations are going on in the background. But when I really need to think hard about a problem or a
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More Unsolicited Advice From David Cain
David Cain has many thoughtful and carefully observed posts on his blog “Raptitude: Getting Better at Being Human.” Here are excerpts from three posts that offer practical advice for entrepreneurs.
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12 From Sydney J. Harris’ “Winners and Losers” For Entrepreneurs
Sydney J. Harris was a journalist and newspaper columnist who wrote “Winners and Losers” in 1973. This slim 120 page volume packs a number of insights. I have selected a dozen that I thought were most applicable for entrepreneurs.
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Stephanie Shateria: How To Look and Feel Authentic On Camera
Key takeaways from a talk today by Stephanie Shaterian on at Women in Consulting event on “How To Look and Feel Authentic On Camera”
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