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by skmurphy 14y ago
Key points: I often hear that the key to success in life is a lot of hard work. A better phrase would be to say that the key to success is persistent work. In my experience the people who succeed outlasted their peers for long enough to con
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Really Hard Work(david-smith.org)
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by skmurphy 14y ago
key point: "Perhaps the greatest hallmark of founders who ruin their companies is that they appear to look out mostly for No. 1 rather than the interests of the company and its shareholders. For starters, they accept excessive compensation.
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Eight founders who ruined their companies(usatoday.com)
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by skmurphy 14y ago
Key paragraph: What if the right model for a successful business is not the crescendo (the “hockey stick”) but ebb and flow. I think it’s more important how you manage cutbacks and necessary expense reductions, the organized abandonment of
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Ebb and Flow(skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 14y ago
The kernel of "born on third base" is 50 years older. "The Yale Book of Quotations" lists several variations from the 1930's the oldest is from 12 May 1934, Hammond (IN) Times, pg. 4, col. 2: "A genius is one who seems a wonder because he w
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by skmurphy 14y ago
Summary: Emerging markets, Industries that are being disrupted, Companies that have fallen behind the innovation curve. with examples from Lean Startup 2012 Conference ( http://www.leanstartup.co ) presentations.
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by skmurphy 14y ago
edw519 has not listed problems to be solved but dilemmas/trade-offs to be managed.
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Videos, Slides, and related Blog Posts for 2012 Lean Startup Conference (skmurphy.com)
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by skmurphy 14y ago
Key points: Lightning is directly linked to events that produce some of the highest-energy light naturally made on Earth: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was recently fine-tuned to better catch T
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NASA captures earthly anti-matter explosions on video(dailygalaxy.com)
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by skmurphy 14y ago
Why not post three tips on the page to offer some examples of what entrepreneurs will get?
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by skmurphy 14y ago
in particular CA courts will enforce non-competes against the owners of one company who sell it to another. This means that the acqui-hired can be subject to an enforceable non-compete by the acquiring company.
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by skmurphy 14y ago
Interesting perspective that a business person tends to ask 1. Do we trust them? 2. Will it suit our business? 3. Do we understand it? 4. Will it work? while technologists tend to proceed from "Will it work?" toward "Do we trust them?"
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The Inductive Deductive Schism(flowchainsensei.wordpress.com)
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Crowdfunding and Caveats(pehub.com)
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Child diabetes levels higher in China than in US, Obesity Reviews study finds(sciencecodex.com)
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by skmurphy 14y ago
Consider sandbox pages where I can do some quick editing to try it out before signing up. I don't care if the page does not last more than an hour. Please be clear on your pricing, I could not find a pricing page.
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by skmurphy 14y ago
I think this is a significant improvement of the Business Model Canvas for startups. I believe that the final visual language will look more like a custom drawn directed graph (more like a data flow diagram) rather than a table with boxes.
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by skmurphy 14y ago
The advertisers are the customers, they are the ones paying Facebook. The 'users' are the audience that the advertisers are paying to reach.
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by skmurphy 14y ago
His opening two caveats are a useful antidote to autobiographies marketed as treasure maps. First, even though every guy who has done a successful start-up somehow feels he's therefore become the philosopher-king of business, all e
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by skmurphy 15y ago
Values of OK may range from 1% of the final version to 80%; the real test is if the prototype advances your understanding of customer needs by triggering additional insights through conversation. If you are not surprised you are not learnin
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by skmurphy 15y ago
You are assuming that it's a binary outcome--it's a right or wrong product--when it's shades of gray and an opportunity for learning more about your customers' needs. Consider proceeding by a sequence of prototypes that become "less wrong"
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by skmurphy 15y ago
This reminds me of Scott Adams "New Company Model OA5 Out at 5pm" model from the last chapter of his "Dilbert Principle" http://www.amazon.com/The-Dilbert-Principle-Cubicles-Eye-Aff... on-line at http://mdsalunkhe.tripod.com/dilbert.htm
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by skmurphy 15y ago
There is actually a CA Historical marker for the site from http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21522 NO. 836 PIONEER ELECTRONICS RESEARCH LABORATORY – This is the original site of the laboratory and factory of Federal Telegraph Company, foun
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by skmurphy 15y ago
They anchored the start of Silicon Valley with Hewlett Packard. I think that Federal Telegraph 1909 founding is a much better starting point, See Timothy J. Sturgeon’s "How Silicon Valley Came to Be" where he notes: The fact that the San Fr
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by skmurphy 15y ago
Have you reached out to the folks at http://www.startupcitydsm.com/ that's a local resource you could tap. Feel free to contact me directly through my profile for an introduction. re: "Frankly, we are a bunch of 'nobodies' in the middle o
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by skmurphy 15y ago
Summary of key points, article is well worth reading and is well documented with charts and sales data: "The Wii addressed non-consumers with a new, more intuitive controller and standard resolution rather than competing for hardcore gamers
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by skmurphy 15y ago
It's funny how none of these articles mention http://www.leancanvas.com/ which was already released and in use when LLL was announced on stage at Startup Lessons Learned last year. See for example http://www.slideshare.net/ashmaurya/runn

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