Ben Foden has been working with us part time; the following is a blog post he developed on creating genuine connections with social media.
Ben Foden on “Creating Genuine Connections with Social Media” Read More »
There has been a lot written about various aspects of social media: what tools to use, how disruptive it is, how to develop and/or demonstrate expertise. Here are four rules of thumb we follow. To establish a reputation you have to be visible or reasonably well known, but it’s more important to be known for
Social Media for Startups: “Less is More” Read More »
Marc Andreessen started a new VC firm, Andreesen Horowitz, in July but has yet to explain why he deleted his excellent series of articles on entrepreneurship from his site. I am glad that Jed Christiansen has rescued them from bit rot. Two posts that are definitely worth reading: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4:
Marc Andreessen’s Entrepreneurial Insights Rescued from Bit Rot by Jed Christiansen Read More »
I use LinkedIn very differently than many of the folks I meet when I am out and about in Silicon Valley. I normally only link to people I have had shared success with. I do not link with folks who I have just casually met. I believe it’s important to keep track of folks I
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These quotes for entrepreneurs are added as I find them on http://www.twitter.com/skmurphy and then collected into a post at the end of the month. Enter your E-mail if you would like new blog posts to your inbox.
Quotes for Entrepreneurs – October 2009 Read More »
Sometimes paradigms do shift. Amazon announced today that its Elastic Cloud Computing now supports high memory instances: High-Memory Instances Instances of this family offer large memory sizes for high throughput applications, including database and memory caching applications. High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34.2 GB of memory, 13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25
Amazon High Memory Instances Will Enable More EDA Apps to Move to the Cloud Read More »
George Grellas offered some great advice on the difference between insightful and “window dressing” advisory boards on Hacker News I have reprinted here with his permission
George Grellas on Insightful vs. “Window Dressing” Advisory Boards Read More »
We had a good “Getting More Customers” workshop today, here is the feedback that we gathered and a heads-up on some plans for 2010. We added three numeric ratings to our feedback form this time (which shrank the space for comments). Numeric Ratings (1 Poor to 5 Excellent) Importance of Topic: 4.75 Content: 4.75 Quality
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Someone with the label selfemploy posted the following question (note the fact that he is in Bangalore appears later in the thread, I have included it in the body of the question) on Hacker News earlier this month. As the recession continues to affect not only in Silicon Valley but many engineers around the world
4 Steps to Prepare for a Startup While You are Still Employed Read More »
Sean Murphy joins the eMobus advisory board. He has been assisting the eMobus team on strategies for pricing, new customer acquisition, leveraging their cloud computing infrastructure, and effective differentiation of their services.
Sean Murphy Joins eMobus Advisory Board Read More »
A blog post from October 2006 “Administrivia in Startups” made the following points I had lunch with Sylvia Nessan, a veteran of Synopsys, CoWare, and several high tech startups and she made an observation that I thought was worth writing down: the founding team, and CEO in particular, don’t pay enough attention to how much
Administrivia Revisited Read More »
Marc Smith proposes four key roles for managing a wiki or other social media platform: domain expert, diplomat, editor, and vandal hunter.
Expert, Editor, Diplomat, Vandal Hunter Read More »
Many entrepreneurs planning their first software startup get stuck on funding and ownership issues. Here are some simple rules of thumb that may help you reframe an issue: Revenue, especially break even revenue, is never dilutive of your ownership. The right co-founders, while dilutive, substantially increase your chances of success: they give you a smaller
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With Synopsys announcing Synphony, a high-level design compiler that reads in MATLAB M code and generates RTL and some other useful outputs, and Mathworks listed in Gary Smith’s ESL 2009 Wallchart, I wonder if it doesn’t make sense to define MATLAB as an ESL language and Mathworks as an EDA player. Harry Gries provides a
Growing the Pie in EDA, Part 3: Add MATLAB Read More »
I saw a quote by C. Kent Wright “To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak” and decided to purchase one of his quote collections “Nectar in a Nutshell.” It was first published in October of 1944 and my copy is the “fifth impression” from 1945.
C. Kent Wright’s “Nectar in a Nutshell” Has Some Great Quotes Read More »
I think a bootstrapper’s true scarce resource is time. Determining how to be most effective with how you spend your time is more important than spending too many cycles on trying to save nickels. As a side effect of cutting out ineffective activities you will tend to cut unnecessary expenses. “Lost wealth may be replaced
Time is the Limiting Resource for Bootstrappers, Not Money Read More »
Just a quick reminder that today is the last day for early bird rates on our “Getting More Customers – A 90 Day Plan” workshop that is Saturday October 24 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) at the Pacific Business Center 1250 Oakmead Pkwy Suite 210 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 501-8800 Click here to
Last Day for Early Bird Rates for Oct-24 Getting More Customers Read More »
I blogged about end of year issues last November in “6 Work Weeks or Less in 2008” and I thought I would issue the “Warning Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear” a little earlier this year because a lot of new businesses need to take action in the next few weeks to get
Eleven Work Weeks–Or Less–Left in 2009 Read More »
I will be taking part in an SVASE panel on the lean startup concept entitled “Lean Startups–Do They Really Work” on Thursday October 29 at Cooley Godward in San Francisco.
Lean Startups Panel at SVASE Oct 29 in SF Read More »
I am happy to be able to offer another guest blog by Nanette Collins, her first was on “Volunteering, Lessons Learned from the Trenches.” Nanette is an entrepreneur in her own right, she is the principal at Nanette V. Collins Marketing and PR with offices in Boston and San Francisco and one the web at
Nanette Collins: Startup Culture is Critical Read More »
