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BE Aggressive!

Posted on30. Jun, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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Many of the best business folks, entrepreneurs and even just true lovers of life have been “out there”.  Some aggressive folks have larger than life personalities, some even boorish, arrogant and tough to be around at time.  Other aggressive business peopleare more demure, subdued and even somewhat introverted.  When I talk about being aggressive in business [...]

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How to bring a product to market / A very rare interview with Sean Ellis – Venture Hacks

Posted on25. Feb, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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via venturehacks.com I flaggeded this using Instapaper back in December when it first came out from Nivi at Venture Hacks and finally got around to reading it on the plane on my flight home from IBM Pulse last night. I highly recommend that regardless of what stage your tech company is in (or you think [...]

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Things To Think About

Posted on03. Feb, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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Things To Think About E Book View more presentations from Paul Marshall. I was asked to contribute to a book that was being pulled together by Terry O’Hanlon from Reliabilityweb.com (a thought leader in our space).  Terry did a great job of collecting thoughts from many senior and very experienced folks in the Operations and [...]

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Relocated and Refocused!

Relocated and Refocused!

Posted on01. Feb, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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For some time now I have been meaning to move my blog to a more professional format and focus on providing meaning regular guidance and thoughts for my audience.  I have a full time job as most of you know running a great Company and working with a great group of people at Ivara Corp.  [...]

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Can’t wait to Read!

Posted on22. Jan, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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via startuplessonslearned.com I know I am late to the game but I FINALLY ordered my copy of “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” by Steve Blank….can’t wait to read it as it has been one of the single most frequently recommended read from folks. Not exactly an early adopter on this one but I’m hoping [...]

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Updated Customer Development Image | Market By Numbers | Marketing Help

Posted on22. Jan, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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via market-by-numbers.com Really great illustrative piece of work by Brant Cooper that nicely outlines the customer evoluation…go to Brant’s Market By Numbers blog and add to your reader if you are at all interested in customer development. Posted via web from Paul’s posterous

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You can ALWAYS do less – (from www.37signals.com)

Posted on14. Jan, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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The hardest part about making good software that ships on time is knowing what and when to sacrifice. As programmers and designers, we often fall in love with our requirements and are unable to kill our darlings. We mistake what we said we’ll do with what must be done. It’s rarely so; you can always [...]

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IT AIN´T ABOUT HOW HARD YOU HIT …

Posted on11. Jan, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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via youtube.com I think it is fair to say that perhaps the best business lessons of our time were not taught by Rocky Balboa however I came across this courtesy of @msuster and his blog Both Sides of The Table (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/). For all entrepreneurs, startups and business folks this is an important lesson to remember. [...]

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Chris Brogan – Home Base in your Social Media Strategy

Posted on09. Jan, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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One of the biggest voices in Social Media Chris Brogan has a new post up today which includes the above diagram that Chris put together which is one of the most illustrative and on point I have seen.  The diagram, and Chris’s post, clearly articulate his theory of Home Base and Outposts.  Check out and [...]

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What do you do in bad meeting…

Posted on07. Jan, 2010 by Paul Marshall.

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Lots of comments on this twitter post "Ever have(non-internal) meetings w/ someone & u know 5 min in that it isn't going to work..do you stay, be courteous or bail, I've done both" I thought I'd move th dialogue here.   My concern in bailing is as @mbertulli mentioned some people just don't make good [...]

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