Startup Maturity Checklist Session Sun-Oct-4 1pm at SV Code Camp
Athol Foden‘s encouragement I have submitted the following session (links added) for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp has now finalized the session schedule and my Software Startup Maturity...
View ArticleNanette Collins: Startup Culture is Critical
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...
View ArticleFederated Entrepreneurship
“Federated Entrepreneurship” was a phrase that William Krause used to explain 3Com’s model for management and innovation when he was CEO. Federation comes from a Latin word foedus for covenant or...
View ArticleFederated Entrepreneurship 2
Recapping on my earlier “Federated Entrepreneurship” post from January 5. A federation is a union of partially self-governing units with a constitution that does not allow unilateral changes by a...
View ArticleSaras Sarasvathy’s Effectual Reasoning Model for Expert Entrepreneurs
Update Feb-24-2011: Since I first wrote this in 2010 the Effectuation.Org site has been considerably upgraded and contains a lot more information on Saras Sarasvathy’s research. Recapping ideas,...
View ArticleRestlessness & Discontent, Gumption & Sisu
“Though Felsenstein foresaw the rise of personal computers, he’s still waiting for the kind of democratization that he hoped would accompany it, when cheap computers in the hand of “the people” would...
View ArticleSlides from “Working For Equity” Panel at SVCC 2011
Here are the slides from today’s “Working for Equity” panel at Silicon Valley Code Camp. It was a standing room only crowd of over 70 that made for a very interactive session with the panel: Liz...
View ArticleThree Useful Tools: MyPermissions, SocialMention, HackerFollow
MyPermissions: Checks for third party application access to your Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Instagram, and Flickr accounts. SocialMention: Allows you to do keyword and phrase...
View ArticleRecap of “Work For Equity” A Startup CEO Panel at SVCC 2012
If you missed our “Working for Equity” panel at Silicon Valley Code Camp 2012, Theresa Shafer and the four CEO’s on the panel had a lively conversation about what’s really involved in leaving your day...
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LSC Workshop on Engineering Your Sales Process
If you missed SKMurphy and SalesQualia at Lean Startup Conference’s workshop, Sean Murphy and Scott Sambucci led an interactive workshop on developing and debugging your repeatable and scalable B2B...
View ArticleTips for Choosing a Logo
Text Treatments: text logos are simple, the company name is always right there. Most high tech logos are text treatments, they are clear and simple. With text logos you have instant impact, customers...
View ArticleHighlighting Matt Maroon’s “Why Not To Do A Startup”
Matt Maroon wrote a very thought provoking post on “Why Not to Do a Startup” a little over four weeks ago that I have been meaning to write about. He opens provocatively: I’ve been doing a lot of...
View ArticleStrategy is a Hypothesis
I caught this tweet on the VentureHacks Twitter feed but in checking with Mr. Google I discovered it was part of the Balanced Scorecard methodology. An excerpt from Dr. David Norton’s “Measuring Value...
View ArticleNeed 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...
View ArticleBe Careful How You Tell Yourself “The Story So Far”
I had a long conversation today with a startup CEO who has been bootstrapping since 2004. It was enjoyable and energizing–I always enjoy talking to folks trying to create something new. We talked about...
View ArticleStartup Marketing Lab Next Monday at SDForum Marketing SIG
I have been invited to take part in a “Startup Marketing Lab” next Monday at a joint session of the SDForum Marketing and Startup SIG’s. Four companies with “a tiny marketing budget” want to get “best...
View ArticleCommon Questions about Advisory Boards
What is an advisory board? An advisory board is a formal or informal group of advisers who give advise, contacts, and feedback. Unlike the board of directors they do not have a fiduciary responsibility...
View Article“Better” is the Enemy of “Good Enough”
This phrase is attributed to Sergey Gorshkov, the commander in chief of the Soviet Navy from 1956 to 1985, who managed it’s dramatic expansion during the Cold War. Perfectionists get this wrong, siding...
View ArticleNegotiate the Level of Reference in Parallel with Price and Others Terms and...
Steve Bengston is the Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS) at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a frequent explainer of the PWC MoneyTree report, and the host of “PricewaterhouseCoopers Startup...
View ArticleStartup Maturity Checklist Session Sun-Oct-4 1pm at SV Code Camp
Athol Foden‘s encouragement I have submitted the following session (links added) for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp has now finalized the session schedule and my Software Startup Maturity...
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