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Timeline of the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by skmurphy 7y ago|5 comments
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by skmurphy 7y ago
I don't think it's click bait. There is a lot of practical advice in the article and real examples of implementation. His "tomato" answer is a refusal to engage and be helpful, but the article itself is a very good roun
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by skmurphy 7y ago
Noel: your cofounder has written an excellent roundup article on marketing tactics that has gotten good engagement with your target audience. Why demolish a substantial fraction of the goodwill you were accruing with a remark like this? In
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by skmurphy 7y ago
"Writing is Nature's way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is" Great quote, it's actually by Bob Mugele (see earlier cite http://commonplacebook.com/jokes/funny-lists/one-liners-from... )
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by skmurphy 7y ago
Background: When we started SKMurphy in 2003 we worked on a series of “startup maturity models” to help teams better understand where they were in their journey, which set of risks were the most appropriate areas of focus to make forward pr
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Are You Working on the Right Risks? (A Self-Assessment Tool for B2B Startups)(skmurphy.com)
1 points by skmurphy 7y ago|0 comments
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by skmurphy 7y ago
Key paragraph: Over the past 60 years, the energy efficiency of ever-less expensive logic engines has improved by over one billion fold. No other machine of any kind has come remotely close to matching that throughout history. Consider the
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by skmurphy 7y ago
It’s easy for the product team to to fixate on the core technology that enables a product and lose sight of what’s needed for the “whole product.” This article is the result of an ongoing collaboration with Mary Sorber that started with her
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Mary Sorber: Raw Pasta Is Not Enough(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 7y ago
I think "undo" is the wrong metaphor for decision making. It's "safe to fail" or "acceptable risk" or "acceptable loss." You always lose time and opportunity at a minimum, but in exchange for new
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New NTSB Reports on Uber Fatality Reveal Major Errors by Uber(forbes.com)
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Getting Work Done: Leveraging Calendars, Task Lists, and Project Plans(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 7y ago
What would have been a stopping rule or failure condition that would have led you to abandon this approach? You have to distinguish between a hobby that brings you pleasure and the beginning of a business that will earn a profit if you valu
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by skmurphy 7y ago
Overview: We see teams make two basic mistakes 1. An overly broad definition of their "circle of competence." When they narrow their focus to capabilities they can execute with distinction; they chase fewer opportunities that they
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Competitive Intelligence for Bootstrapping Startups(skmurphy.com)
7 points by skmurphy 7y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 7y ago
I supported Clinton's invitation of China into a more liberal trade arrangement,but it has not worked out as anyone in the US had hoped. Thompson's conclusion is an important insight: "Money, like tech, is amoral. If we insis
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by skmurphy 7y ago
China has leveraged "smart city" technologies to build open air Panopticons.
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by skmurphy 7y ago
Key take-aways 1. Written comprehension is normally higher than spoken, at the cost of losing the emotional context for a sentence. 2. Provide a written version of key remarks and insights as this will boost team members' comprehension
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Lessons from Working with Teams Who Speak English as a Second Language(skmurphy.com)
2 points by skmurphy 7y ago|2 comments
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by skmurphy 7y ago
Originally triggered by this comment on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428677 Conclusion: It's hard to appreciate that in the 1980's through the late 1990's I either had to visit a bookstore or write
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Remembering Computer Literacy Bookshops in Silicon Valley(skmurphy.com)
3 points by skmurphy 7y ago|2 comments
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by skmurphy 7y ago
I have seen a lot of push back in various forums and whenever this link is tweeted but a lot of it seems to conflate "materials science" and "civil engineering" or "mechanical engineering." There is a very big
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by skmurphy 7y ago
Summarizes https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4497396/books-in-mi... The books category is closing Starting April 2, 2019, the books category in Microsoft Store will be closing. Unfortunately, this mean
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Ebooks Purchased from Microsoft Deleted April 2019 as DRM Servers Shutdown(gizmodo.com)
63 points by skmurphy 7y ago|21 comments
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by skmurphy 7y ago
On Fri-Apr-26 at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View, Amelia Lin of Keep Life Stories gave a short briefing on “Going from Zero to First Paid Customer in 12 Weeks ” Amelia’s story: “When I started a service to capture a loved one’s life story
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Amelia Lin on Learning Fast: Going from Zero to First Paid Customer in 12 Weeks(bootstrappersbreakfast.com)
1 points by skmurphy 7y ago|1 comments
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by skmurphy 7y ago
Given your pricing you should ask folks to pay for one or more targets and 30 days of storage if you are writing custom code or helping with an integration. If someone pays you $25-$100 for an eval they are far more likely to be serious. Yo
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by skmurphy 8y ago
He is pretty clear that once they located the market he continued to inject too many of his own ideas not directly based on customer or prospect needs into the development queue, slowing progress on the core features needed and giving compe
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by skmurphy 8y ago
There are several good lessons learned presented that are generally applicable: "We should have spent more time figuring out what the problems were with existing solutions and who specifically had those problems." "The custom
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by skmurphy 8y ago
Best line: "I’m not saying that Mark Zuckerberg is Sauron, just that the business model of Mordor isn’t entirely unknown in Silicon Valley."

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