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Join us next Saturday October 5 at 1:45 for the “Working for Equity Startup CEO Panel,” an exploration of what’s really involved in getting a technology startup off the ground. We have four entrepreneurs, an artist, an athlete, a scientist, and a community organizer, who will share lessons learned and take questions from the audience.
SVCC 2013 Work for Equity Panel of Startup Founders Announced Read More »
Preserving Trust And Demonstrating Expertise Unlocks Demanding Niche Markets Q: We are preparing to enter a B2B market where the potential buyers are high-value but relatively few in number and close-knit. I am concerned that they will have a low tolerance for a minimum viable product (MVP) approach; much less pre-MVP research that misses the
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What is Under Your Control in an MVP? Your target customer, the problem you solve for them, and what capabilities you offer to help them.
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Q: I want to make maximum effective use of my time. I have an hour of commute most days and have been listening to podcasts but I have been considering using the time to make customer discovery or sales calls. Do you have an recommendations on the best way to do this? I think it’s
Customer Discovery Conversations While Driving Are Not a Good Idea Read More »
PATCA is a non-profit organization created in 1975 specifically to help connect businesses and independent consultants. I was invited to take part in a PACA panel on “The Consulting Landscape: Forward Looking Skills and Practices” on Thursday June 13, 2013. It offered me a chance to clarify my thinking on the future of professional consulting and
Remarks from “Future of Professional Consulting” at PATCA June-13-2013 Read More »
I saw some very cool stuff at the Inside 3D Printing Conference yesterday. Here are some pictures of a few of my favorites. A scale model from MCOR paper 3D printers. There was lots of toys. This one is from fabbster. But not everything was hard and stiff – check out this personalized rubber shoe
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Peter Cohan has a very insightful new article out, “Stunningly Awful vs. Truly Terrific Competitive Differentiation – What, When, and How“, that outlines how to use discovery conversations to enable effective product differentiation. What follows are some excerpts with additional commentary but the entire article is worth reading.
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Register for “How to Invent” for free Udemy course at http://www.udemy.com/how-to-invent/ “How To Invent” is a step-by-step guide for non-inventors to start inventing. It is organized as screencast lectures, practice sessions, and quizzes. It offers process for capturing on paper key ideas in your head that you want to document as intellectual property and possibly
Don’t Miss “Capturing Intellectual Property” Silicon Valley Workshop Oct-19-2013 Read More »
We are reprising our “Working for Equity” CEO Panel for the fourth year at the 2013 Silicon Valley Code Camp. Here is the current write-up, we will be adding panelists’ bios in a few days. Many of us in Silicon Valley seek either to found or to be an early employee at a technology startup.
Working For Equity CEO Panel Returns to Silicon Valley Code Camp 2013 Read More »
The following announcement went out this morning: Biophotonic System Design Optimized Through New Technology BeamWise from Design Parametrics, Kinetic River, and Plan Energy I have added some additional hyperlinks for clarity. Giacomo Vacca will include a brief overview of BeamWise in his talk at the Bio2Devices Group on Sep-24-2013, “New Tools for Cancer Research: Probing Cellular Processes
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Remembering 9-11: I found this video very moving because it focused on the people and not the destruction. h/t Victory Girls Remembering 9-11 Take ten minutes to reflect on Sep-11-2001, a watershed event for the US in the 21st century that I have come to believe is a harbinger and not an outlier. Last year
Remembering 9-11: Our Children Will Also Live In Interesting Times Read More »
Skip Walter designed successful software products for over three decades. Here are 7 laws from his list of 18 laws of software development.
Seven From Skip Walter’s Laws Of Software Development Read More »
Paul Spaan worked as a mechanical engineer for more than two decades at major Silicon Valley technology firms before launching Spaan Enterprises to explore his long term interest in 3D printing. On Friday May 24, he shared lessons learned from the installation and bringup of two 3D printers and some examples of prototypes he has designed and
Audio: Paul Spaan’s Briefing on 3D Printing at May 24 2013 Bootstrapper Breakfast Read More »
Lisa Solomon says that an effective meeting can do one–and only one–of 3 things: build a common understanding, generate option, or make decisions. In this talk on “Designing Time: Make Meaning” she elaborates on this and challenges the person calling the meeting to work backward from the end of the meeting and define: what has
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Q: I am part of a hardware/embedded device startup working on our MVP. We want to develop a minimum product to cut our initial development costs and iterate scientifically through experimentation. My concern is that State governments are my primary customer type and their buying model is to do a pilot project and then write what
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Welcome to our first major re-design in almost seven years. Things are a little wider now, posts should look better on tablets and smartphones, and the audio and video should all play on them as well. Please leave a comment or contact us if you have any problems or suggestions. We want to thank Dave
First Major Website Upgrade In 7 years Read More »
We are excited to see Robert Felten’s recent project, GUI for a flash drive, featured in EE Times. Robert Felten Software provides Software Development Consulting and Contracting. He specializes in Qt/C++ GUI and embedded software. See the Rick Merritt’s round up of the Flash Memory Summit at “Slideshow: Flash Innovators Flood Show” Robert is a
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