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Saras Sarasvathy’s Effectual Reasoning Model for Expert Entrepreneurs
Posted on Sunday, February 7, 2010 - 18:47 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Recapping ideas, papers, and books that had changed my life yesterday reminded me of Saras Sarasvathy’s Effectual Reasoning Model from her 2001 paper “What Makes Entrepreneur’s Entrepreneurial” (There is an annotated version on the Khosla Ventures site at http://www.khoslaventures.com/presentations/What_makes_entrepreneurs_ent... ) What follows are some quotes from “W
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Federated Entrepreneurship 2
Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 01:19 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Recapping on my earlier “Federated Entrepreneurship” post from January 5. A federation is a union of partially self-governing units with a constitution that does not allow unilateral changes by a central governing body. I think it’s also a good model for what’s required to create an economically dynamic region. One parallel would be to a barn raising or Finnish talkoot, where a community comes together to solve an urgent problem that is beyond the means of a member or family in the community.
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Federated Entrepreneurship
Posted on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 23:10 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
“Federated Entrepreneurship” was a phrase that William Krause used to explain 3Com’s model for management and innovation when he was CEO. Federation comes from a Latin word foedus for covenant or treaty and describes a union of partially self-governing units with a constitution that does not allow unilateral changes by a central governing body.
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Nanette Collins: Startup Culture is Critical
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 - 19:23 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I am happy to be able to offer another guest blog by Nanette Collins, her first was on “Volunteering, Lessons Learned from the Trenches.”  Nanette is an entrepreneur in her own right, she is the principal at Nanette V. Collins Marketing and PR with offices in Boston and San Francisco and one the web at www.nvc.com It’s All About Corporate Culture by Nanette Collins In the 15 years that I have owned a marketing consulting business, my focus has been on working with entrepreneurs and startups in the EDA and semiconductor area.
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Startup Maturity Checklist Session Sun-Oct-4 1pm at SV Code Camp
Posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 - 22:57 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Athol Foden’s encouragement I have submitted the following session (links added) for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp has now finalized the session schedule and my Software Startup Maturity Checklist session is set for Sunday, October 4 at 1pm in Room 4301. The description follows: This session is for both aspiring and active entrepreneurs. We will walk through a 36 point checklist that covers Product Development, Customer Development, and Business Operations.
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Negotiate the Level of Reference in Parallel with Price and Others Terms and Conditions
Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 16:09 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Steve Bengston is the Managing Director of Emerging Company Services (ECS) at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a frequent explainer of the PWC MoneyTree report, and the host of “PricewaterhouseCoopers Start Up Show.” He is also a nice guy who is knowledgeable and very approachable.
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