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by skmurphy 10y ago
More of the British pilots parachuted into friendly hands because majority of the air battle in the "Battle for Britain" was over Britain. The Germans started to face a pilot shortage. Arguably the British should have focused on p
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OLO – The First Ever Smartphone 3D Printer(kickstarter.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
The premise of the question is flawed; by definition a field failure is a failure of the organization and in particular the leadership. Gerald Weinberg made this point many years ago: programmers cannot make million dollar mistakes, only se
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by skmurphy 11y ago
[Haseeb left a long comment (sorry it does not seem to be possible to link directly to it) Here is an edited version (I have removed sentences but believe I have preserved some key points) To be clear I don't know Haseeb and have never
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by skmurphy 11y ago
Is this still operational? Site copyright and most recent blog post both say 2013.
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by skmurphy 11y ago
I meet some entrepreneurs who are used to being the smartest person in the room. Many have been the smartest person in the rooms that they have been in–and my entering the room doesn’t change that. But getting into a room with a prospect do
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When you are no longer the smartest person in the room(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
A critique of Mark Leslie's When Small Meets Large Small (Almost) Always Wins at http://firstround.com/review/leslies-law-when-small-meets-la... and https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/techn
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Rock Paper Scissors(skmurphy.com)
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Getting Better at Customer Discovery Conversations(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
This is a really good list, I had not appreciated the subtle distinction been timeboxing and pomodoro before. Here are three more to consider 1. Meditation - helps focus and mindfulness 2. Review done list at end of day and make tomorrow&#x
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by skmurphy 11y ago
Engineers build functional products. If there is implementation risk it's much better to focus on functionality first. A beautiful product that does not supply needed functionality is worse than an ugly one that does.
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by skmurphy 11y ago
key points by Mancuso "The enterprising adult first appears as the enterprising child." "The first school for any entrepreneur is the home; it's not surprising many have at least one self-employed parent.&qu
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Joseph Mancuso’s Insights on Entrepreneurship(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
Take-away: 5 key attributes of high resilience organizations: 1. Preoccupation with Failure: We were continuously on the lookout for what could go wrong and ways to spot weak signals and small failures early so we could act on them and tak
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Scaling Up to a High Reliability Organization(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
Some key points by Adeo Ressi in a keynote at StartupFest 2015 (video at https://vimeo.com/135082216 ) Founders take out the trash. There are easier ways to be happy. You cannot have a good “what” unless you have
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Adeo Ressi: Don't Lose Your Purpose in a Pivot(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
I think if you are taking $250 from people you should sign an NDA. From http://murder-board.com/faq#group_367 "Will you sign an NDA?" The sheer number of NDAs we would have to be beholden to would make our busines
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by skmurphy 11y ago
Summary: Esther Derby (@estherderby) presented “Six Rules for Change” at LeanWX NYC 2015 “The Design of Purposeful Work” 1. Congruence. 2. Honor what is valuable about the past and what is working now. 3. Assess the current situation and sy
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Esther Derby’s Six Rules for Change(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
key points: Much has been written about a startup making a pivot in direction after Eric Ries first coined the term in a 2009 blog post “Pivot don’t Jump to a New Vision.” The word pivot has attracted almost as much wordplay as the word lea
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Good and Bad Reasons to Pivot(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” Paul Saffo “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Roy Amara I looks like they have m
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by skmurphy 11y ago
Interesting exploration of models for innovation across different cultures. Key paragraph: What bricoleurs, DIYers and tinkerers have in common is that they are inventors – improvising solutions without obvious or sophisticated tools. They
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Bricolage: Doing More with Less(sidewalkandverge.wordpress.com)
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by skmurphy 11y ago
I don't find this to be true: "One of the most useful tools in the marketer’s tool kit is the survey." Especially in the early market. I find that surveys and landing pages and A/B tests are often used as "veterinar
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by skmurphy 11y ago
A fair point, if you have modular construction with redundancy you can replace "factory parts" that break/rust/fail. I wonder what the repair process looks like for a bridge or other structure that's "printed o
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by skmurphy 11y ago
If you look at the various elements of a 3D printer--filament/material, print head, print arm, bed, position control, material transformation model (e.g. fusing, sintering, curing/hardening, ...) they are innovating in a couple of
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by skmurphy 11y ago
Related article in Science http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6239/aaa0698.abstract New modality for population health modeling.

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