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Execution

Lean Startup Presentation

May 27, 2009

This is a good, high-level, presentation for anyone in or thinking about starting a “start-up.”

2009 05 21 The Lean Startup At SIPA
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2009, The Year of Monetization

December 26, 2008

n 2009, I’ll be moving the emphasis of this blog, as well as how my time is spent in the real world from the development and exploration of ideas to the execution andmonetization of those ideas. In fact, my girlfriend and I agree that officially 2009 has been declared the “Year of Monetization.”

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Flash Intro Pages

November 13, 2008

Do or Do Not really is the question when it comes to using a Flash intro on your blog. In my opinion, 99% of the time the answer is “Do Not.” There are a number of reasons for this which I’ll get into shortly but to begin with I generally look at flash intro pages [...]

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Business Intelligence for Small Business

July 24, 2008

Business Intelligence has become one of those terms that reaks of consulting-ease, but in it’s truest form, business intelligence (BI) is as genuinely necessary for growing a businesses of any size as anything other than cash flow can be.
Business Intelligence is the process by which we gather meaningful, raw information about our business and make [...]

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Conversion to WordPress

May 27, 2008

As you can see, over the Memorial Day weekend, I finally managed to get my website converted to WordPress. Other than the content (all the old stuff is still here) everything has changed and I welcome your feedback.
Despite the fact that it took a while the process was really relatively easy, thanks largely to careful [...]

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Frameworks, Methodologies and Processes

April 10, 2008

As I was writing the posts on the Idea Lifecycle Matrix I got caught in a couple of conversations about frameworks vs methodologies vs processes reminding me that there is some confusion about the differences between all three and how they fit together.
I’ll start by telling you that despite the way these terms probably sound [...]

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Alternatives to Help Lower the Cost Of Starting Up

February 15, 2008

Like many entrepreneurs, I have in the past made the mistake of racking up expenses before I was actually executing my business because I thought I needed those things in order to make my business work. It takes money to make money right? Well, that old saying is really only true in it’s literal interpretation. [...]

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Perception = Recession = Opportunity

February 7, 2008

Perry Marshall wrote an interesting rant about the perception of a recession as opposed to the reality of one. I tend to agree with him though as he acknowledges, that perception can become a self fulfilling prophecy.
So what does that mean for us? Opportunity!
While everyone else is either pulling back or is too busy looking [...]

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Prevention vs. Cure

January 31, 2008

In college I earned a Bachelors in Psychology. On the surface, it is the most ubiquitously useless degree you can earn. In reality, I learned things about human behavior that I have been able to apply since the day I learned them, to nearly ever facet of my life, including business. I make this [...]

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