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Federated Entrepreneurship 3: Play Your Own Game
Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 09:02 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
Blake Jennelle, one of the prime movers behind Philly Startup Leaders (PSL), was recently interviewed by Technically Philly as a part of their “Exit Interview” series. The focus of the series is entrepreneurs who have left Philadelphia: We hear a lot of chatter about Philadelphia’s brain drain, particularly from our technology community. We’ve read the reports and heard the studies, but we wanted to hear from the people who have actually left.
Sean Murphy
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Business Card Printer Poll Results
Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 11:37 by Theresa Shafer from the site SKMurphy
Results as of April 28 from a recent Bootstrappers Breakfast poll recommend Vistaprint and Overnight Prints printers.  Staples, iPrint.com, and uprinting.com also have recommendations. If you would like to take the poll, visit http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/blog/2010/04/16/business-card-prin...
Theresa Shafer
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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.
Sean Murphy
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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.
Sean Murphy
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Nanette Collins On Volunteering: Lessons Learned from the Trenches
Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 13:12 by Sean Murphy from the site SKMurphy
I have known Nanette Collins for the better part of two decades and was delighted when she took me up on my offer of a guest blog on volunteering and managing volunteers. 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 Working as a volunteer is the hardest job you’ll ever have, or so advised my officemate after she finished a phone call with the principal of her daughters’ parochial school.
Sean Murphy
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