skmurphy
@skmurphy
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I support new technology products; my focus is early customers & early revenue. I help startup teams generate leads & close deals. [email protected]
Silicon Valley
Joined March 2008
Invention is concerned with things and ideas, innovation is all about people and relationships.
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You may never see a deeper, wiser Christmas message than the one contained in this post about the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life." H/T @guypbenson and thanks to @TonySeruga.
Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey. He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his
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Because a “conventional approach” to Navy shipbuilding does not work when the adversary has 400x the shipbuilding capacity. We won WW1 because in 1906 the HMS Dreadnought made every other ship in the world obsolete overnight including the Great White Fleet. We make them
Because it's new design + contain brand new technology, there is a possibility of cost overrun that make it much expensive than the already expensive initial cost . Instead of this, why not trying conventional approach to compete with PLA Navy fast growing fleet.
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Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey Presents the “Barracuda” Cruise Missile on Japanese TV: “This is designed to scare China into not taking action on Taiwan. It has a very specific purpose.” “[We] design our cruise missiles so that they can be very easily manufactured by
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"We wait for the Skynet moment while we are actually being quietly denied a mortgage by a black box model trained on decades of inherited exclusion." Colin W. P. Lewis "The Skynet Fallacy" https://t.co/NdPp6FT38z
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In “The Two Towers,” Frodo and Sam find themselves in Faramir’s camp at Henneth Annun. His men are at the front, in enemy territory, returning from a skirmish in a long, simmering war against a much stronger enemy. Tolkien pauses to describe the setting of the meal: “Light
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Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence.
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"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences
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crazy how nobody is paying attention to how AI researchers made the most valuable self-development manual in history you can literally become more intelligent by copying AI research playbooks anywhere AI makes mistakes is also where humans often fail: - hallucinations: how do
software engineers have an unfair advantage in the AI age not because of their coding knowledge but because they know you need to thoroughly describe and break down a problem before trying to solve it most people are monkeys that throw random darts at a problem until one hits
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Surveys assume you know the right questions AND the right answers. Customer discovery is about exploring what you don't know you don't know.
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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Art"
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Start by deeply understanding existing alternatives before problems because: New problems worth solving come from old solutions (The Innovator's Gift)
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When ten out of ten people say they don't want your product, that's statistically significant. You don't need 1000s to validate rejection.
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Meet other #entrepreneurs who are facing or have overcome similar challenges on the #startup journey. Join us for serious conversation at #MtnView @Bootstrappers.
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Bootstrapping a business is hard work. Join us for serious discussion and actionable steps to move your business forward. #MtnView @Bootstrappers. #entrepreneurs
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