Alex Panait on Current Trends and Possible Futures for AI
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Sean Murphy has thought-provoking conversation with Alex Panait of Mission Automate on current trends and possible futures for AI applications. Edited Transcript at
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The Difference Between a Hypothesis and an Assumption
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The difference between a hypothesis and an assumption is that the first is typically explicit and the second implicit. A hypothesis is what you are testing explicitly in an experiment. An assumption is tested implicitly. By making your assumptions and hypotheses explicit, you increase the clarity of your approach and the chance for learning. This is an audio version of https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2014/01/27/difference-between-a-hypothesis-and-an-assumption/
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Cultivating Luck
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Brendan McAdams and Sean Murphy discuss cultivating luck in business endeavors and relationships. An edited transcript is available at
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Affordable Loss
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Just Sell the Result
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Sean Murphy explains why startups should just sell the result.
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Marker for Early Adopters
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Sean Murphy on what he looks for early adopters.
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Interview with Patricia Watkins on Managing Sales In a Downturn
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This is a ten minute interview I did with with Patricia Watkins on July 24-2020. Patrica is an experienced salesperson and sales executive who's been helping companies drive sales for more than two decades. She has a new book coming out, “" We discuss some of the challenges you need to manage during a major economic disruption. We look back at 9-11 and dotcom crash of 2001, the mortgage bubble of 2008-9, and the current Covid-19 disruption. Patricia outlines how upsell, cross-sell, and referral sales strategies can help sales efforts in a downturn.
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Carl Angotti on Pricing Your Consulting Services
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Key approaches - High Level Summary Use the 1000 invoiced hours rule – To reach a desire target income, assume you can invoice 1000 out of the available 2000 working hours there are in a year. Then, your Rate per hour = desired Income per year / 1000 Hours Invoiced per year (Minimum Income Strategy) Consider the dollar value of your services compared to those of an employee in your skills area. Should include an estimate of company overhead (Alternative pricing) Ask other Consultants selling similar services what they charge. (Market Research Strategy) Decide to price below, at, or above...
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Carl Angotti on "Getting Started on the Cheap and Quickly"
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This is Sean Murphy of SKMurphy. I'm hosting today's podcast, and I'm pleased to have Carl Angotti as a guest. Carl is an experienced consultant who's been a member of PATCA for more than three decades. PATCA is the Professional and Technical Consultants organization. It's been active in Silicon Valley for more than 40 years. For more information on PATCA, the website is www.patca.org. PATCA offers lunches for new consultants facilitated by Carl Angotti. Today, we are talking about one of the topics he regular addresses at the new consultants lunches, getting started on the cheap. Carl,...
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Pete Tormey: How To Keep Harmony Among Founders
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I recently sat down with Pete Tormey, a startup attorney in Silicon Valley, to discuss how to keep harmony among founders in a startup. Sean Murphy
info_outlineJohn Smith and I did another MVP Clinic for Social and Community Apps on Nov-20-2013. We took notes live in a PrimaryPad (an EtherPad derivative application). What follows is a cleaned up version of notes that we took and the audience contributed to. You can see Recap from Nov-20-2013 for more background information.
Overview: exploring how to identify some key problems in communities where the presenters members, trying to understand how to research them, and how to contribute to solving those problems. Two very different people facing analogous situations: one is a researcher looking for action research topics in the KM4Dev community, the other is an entrepreneur who wants to make athletic contests more engaging for contestants and the audience by providing more information that is mobile device friendly.
Commonalities between the two cases that were presented on November 20, 2013
- Challenges in understanding the embedded (often invisible) interests, incentives and assumptions of different groups
- Assumptions about boundaries of organizations that interact with those communities
- Change management perspective is necessary but is challenging to apply in a community context -- it is more of an organizational term, based on a high degree of control
- watching a school of fish trying to determine how they decide to change direction
- both were familiar with communities but may not have appreciated impact of incentives
Panelistsfor today:
- Howard Silverman http://solvingforpattern.org
- John Smith http://Learningalliances.net
- Sean Murphy http://skmurphy.com
Presenter #1: Phillip Grunewald
- PhD student researching how knowledge exchanges can be best facilitated in the international development sector.
- Have been working on this for 1.5 years now and have another 1.5 years left to conduct studies
- Before starting this PhD, worked in in various organisations on Marketing, Corporate Communications, Monitoring and Evaluation and customer relationship management.
- Hold a bachelor's degree in corporate communications and a masters degree in international studies.
- LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/
philipp-grunewald/6a/4ba/82/ - Blog: www.thoughtfordevelopment.com / twitter: @thought4dev
Presenter #2: Eugene Chuvyrov
- Have 14 years of programming experience, with 3.5 of those being an independent consultant.
- Built many web-based and several mobile products - love technology, not just programming, and I can see myself programming robots or wearable devices just as eagerly as I do mobile dev.
- Ran a Software Architecture group in Florida and I help organize a cloud computing group here in the San Francisco Bay area.
- Curent startup: http://www.we-compete.com/