Well worth the five minutes if you are new to working at home (in a team).
How to Work from Home as a Team
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Well worth the five minutes if you are new to working at home (in a team).
A talk by Richard Hamming. Bellcore, 7 March, 1986 Transcript I have given a talk with this title many times, and it turns out from discussions after the talk I could have just as well have called it “You and Your Engineering Career,” or even “You and Your Career.” But I left the word “research” in the title because that is what I have most studied. From the previous chapters, you have an...
Hi, I’m Luni. I’ve been entrepreneuring for the last 35 years. Software companies for the first 20 years, one at a time. The first funded by my leftover college fund, then a super-Angel. The next four by California-based venture capital funds. Only the first shut down. The acquired. One big win. In 2011, while running my last software company, I stumbled upon Bainbridge Graduate Institute, the...
If I had to boil down my lessons for entrepreneurs on how to deal with investors, it boils down to “put your self in their shoes.” What does the investor want from you in order to decide to invest? What does the investors want from you after making the investment? For debt investments, the lender gave you money. That loan came with money and a schedule for repayments. What does the lender want...
There are lessons to be learned about entrepreneurship in unlikely places, including on the baseball field. Or at least in books about how to put together a winning baseball team, like Michael Lewis’ Moneyball. The lesson is simple, your KPIs matter. The What if? asked in Moneyball was “What is the goal of a baseball team, and how can a team best achieve that goal?” The agreed upon goal is to win...
You have a decision to make. If you have seconds to decide, you go with your gut. If you have minutes, you might take that minute to weigh Plan A with Plan B. If you have weeks you might create a pro-con list to help decide between those two – or even three – options. If you have months, you might take the time to brainstorm for some out-of-the-box options. What most people overlook is that there...
