Maple Butter is a project I started to test a few experiments in building an entrepreneurial community that is self-sustaining (generates revenue) and delivers huge value to it’s community (the entrepreneurs). The goal is to unite geographically challenged communities to share knowledge and experiences. Sign up here. More to come.
January 1st is a great day to look back and reflect on what you’ve accomplished. As I think about my time, and how I’ve spent it, I’ve realized there’s some good habits I’ve created that have given me the most leverage. Here’s a few ideas on how you can get more time back, and keep your new years resolutions in
Quotes from the video: When you want to succeed, as bad as you want to breath, then you will be successful When you get to a point, that you want to be successful – as bad as you want to breath – then you will be successful Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep.
Do you really need to move to the valley? I get asked this question a lot. The better question should be – Why should you move? Two years ago, on this day (Sep 1st) I boarded a plane destined to San Francisco with nothing more than a suitcase and a mountain bike. I had no plan. I didn’t know anyone.
Is this post a little self serving? Yes. (I’m a co-founder of Flowtown). That being said – we use Flowtown every day in our customer development processes and after showing several startups how to accomplish this, I figured it only made sense to share it with the rest of the lean startup community. 1. Finding Early Adopters One of the
Speaking has always been a way for me to deepen my understand around a specific topic, as well as a way to gain a larger perspective around issues that face a the startup community. I always get more out of it then I put in (it’s a bit selfish that way #honesty)! With that being said, I’m super excited to
Next week Ethan and I will be speaking at Berkeley to the MBA class that Steve Blank and Eric Ries created around Customer Development (CD) and Lean Startup. Am I nervous? Heck yeah! Steve’s the God Father of CD and known for being brutally honest. All we can do is tell our story with as much passion and honesty as
Huge thanks to David Cancel and Performable for sponsoring the lunch! ———- If you’re a startuper or marketer in Boston I’d like to invite you to join us this week at Performable’s 3rd Customer Development Lunch, this Tuesday (January 26th, 2010) at 12:30pm. We’ll be welcoming serial entrepreneur and fellow marketing metrics geek Dan Martell to Boston. Dan is a canadian entrepreneur now residing
In a recent tweet, Micah Baldwin boldly declared, “If you do SEO for a living, you will be out of business or irrelevant in 3 years.” We’ve been reading about the death of SEO since the late 1990s when SEO was still very much in its infancy. But lately there’s been something different in the cyber air about the future
