Just build a _____ profitable business! – David Heinemeier Hansson, This Week in Startups #46 (1:10:45) Reflection In the spirit of Agile, here’s my retrospective on when we realized the primary objective is to build a business & not to get funded. Inflating Our Own Bubble Back in June 2009, I read about the TechCrunch50 2009 contest & while we barely had any running code, submitted an entry. My collaborators thought it was a bit of a stretch, but we all agreed it’s nice to set goals. So while trying to get a grip on what was required of us, I immersed myself in TechCrunch stuff. From what I understood, there was a...
The Start-Up Chronic...
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The time has come to put down the books, close the blogs and simply focus on doing and not learning. Here’s my Idea’s Five Ws and one H. What’s Your EQ (Entrepreneurial Quotient)? The intent is to test your knowledge of the subject of entrepreneurship, not to test how good...
Connecting the dots ...
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There is no plan… well, maybe a little one. Background In my previous post, Connecting the dots – Part 1, I provided three sources of inspiration for this three part series. Taking inventory of my own dots While I may not share much in common with Steve Jobs – aside from a...
Lessons learned from...
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My outside your firewall, shared listening and engaging Community Product Manager service offering for social software vendors/providers. According to wikipedia Shared Services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been...
A Nordstrom “N...
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An unexpected customer service story right out of the pages of Chip & Dan Heath’s “Made to Stick”. A little off topic for me but … For the most part, I focus my posts on social software. But while doing so, I’m also working on a start-up project and spend...