Quotes

You can follow @skmurphy to get these hot off the mojo wire or wait until the end of the month when they are collected on the blog. + + + “So writing requirements is a composition of unambiguous narratives emerging from the problem domain.” Sergio Bogazzi + + + “The bootstrapper’s key early milestone is the first dollar of revenue from a customer willing to act as a reference.” Sean Murphy in “Handout for Mapping The Path to Your First Dollar of Revenue“ + + + “You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it.

David L. Akin is the Director, SpaceSystems Laboratory at the University of Maryland. He is also the author of “Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design.” He lists more than 40 laws, here are ten that I thought were directly applicable to software entrepreneurship, but the whole list is very funny and worth reading. 1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion. Quantifying adjectives like small, mid-size, large, local, regional, slow, fast, etc..often helps you to focus your message and targeting efforts.

In July I posted “Ten Design Thinking Quotes From Marty Neumeier. Mr. Neumeier has continued his drip irrigation of brilliant insights on twitter at @MARTYneumeier so here are seven of his recent ones related to learning and measurement. + + + “Instead of viewing an acquired company as an uneducated child, view it as an inspired teacher.” Marty Neumeier Even though I have  been through a number of acquisitions on both sides of the transaction I find this insight very powerful.

I came across an interview with David Mamet by Richard Covington for Salon in 1997 and was struck by how this passage could also apply to entrepreneurs entering an established market with a new product: …come into a new situation where they aren’t particularly welcome, assess the situation as quickly as they can and make something new out of it, make a new solution that hasn’t occurred to the indigenous people because the indigenous people have been there too long. Here is a longer excerpt for context, hyperlinks added to original. Q: Why do you say in your book “On