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Turning down business: painful but sometimes necessary

David M. Doolin, PhD — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:58:17 +0000

Turning down business can be painful, but sometimes it’s the only way forward. I’ve recently had to turn down some business myself. I took on a project which didn’t quite feel right, and the deeper I got into it, the more I realized it just wasn’t the right project for me. Which really sucked because [...]

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Turning down business: painful but sometimes necessary

Speed of Implementation: initiation and execution

David M. Doolin, PhD — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:11:37 +0000

Reviewing the results of 2009, it’s clear that speed of implementation can be divided into two parts: Initiation, how fast to get started. Initiation is easy to understand, if you can’t get started on something right away, or at least Real Soon Now (for real), you’re unlikely to succeed at it. Execution, how fast until [...]

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Speed of Implementation: initiation and execution

Morning Due Diligence — Making that first cup of coffee count!

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:21:06 +0000

What do you do in the morning? Surf the World Wide Web? Me too! Such a waste of time… or is it? Since you’re surfing it anyway, surf it with a purpose instead of wasting time looking for Paris Hilton’s latest antics (we miss you Paris!). Use that time to check up on your personal [...]

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Morning Due Diligence — Making that first cup of coffee count!

How To Write With Authority Despite Having No Authority

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:17:18 +0000

A couple of days ago I was explaining to a very near and dear friend of mine that “I can’t coach people about success if I don’t have the success I think I ought to have.” She called BS on this, exactly as she should have. Because it’s the same thing for which I call [...]

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How To Write With Authority Despite Having No Authority

Setting up Clicktime Clients, Projects and Tasks for New Client

David M. Doolin, PhD — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:34:35 +0000

There’s probably nothing I loathe more than keeping track of my time. But off the top of my head… … time tracking is the best tool ever for tracking productivity. For this reason alone, making your peace with – and learning to effectively use – time tracking software is worth your investment. Clicktime, The time [...]

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Setting up Clicktime Clients, Projects and Tasks for New Client

How Dangerous Are Private Label Rights To Your Blogging Credibility?

David M. Doolin, PhD — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:15:34 +0000

Here’s a little snippet from a comment I wrote on blog discussing Private Label Rights a while back: I’ve spent months, years writing articles for publication, even winning an award for one paper. None of which has made me a single, solitary penny. The whole notion of Private Label Rights makes me want to vomit [...]

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How Dangerous Are Private Label Rights To Your Blogging Credibility?

Join A Mastermind Group For Personal And Professional Success

David M. Doolin, PhD — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:10:54 +0000

Joining an existing Mastermind group can save you a lot of time and effort. The members of your group can help you prevent making costly mistakes. The key questions someone should ask about a group before thinking of joining a group are: What can you contribute? How can the group help you? These are very [...]

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Join A Mastermind Group For Personal And Professional Success

Domain name being held hostage by registrar

David M. Doolin, PhD — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:53:43 +0000

I won’t even say which domain it is, because I believe they have a sole provider status. If I piss them off, bye bye domain. It won’t be corporate messing it up. Stuff like this happens what corporate dumps all over the technical staff… who can have a little “Oops” moment and blow my account [...]

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Domain name being held hostage by registrar

Seduced By The Cargo Cult — Are you getting results… or just going through the motions?

David M. Doolin, PhD — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:00:13 +0000

I’m going through an exercise right now that many might find “quaint” or trivial, or somehow beneath anyone of advanced education: I’m copying words from a computer screen directly on to index cards, using a cheap blue ballpoint pen, sitting at my kitchen table as Friday afternoon wanes into Friday evening. The index cards are [...]

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Seduced By The Cargo Cult — Are you getting results… or just going through the motions?

Startup Weekend Women 2.0 August 30, 2009: Pitch!

David M. Doolin, PhD — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:31:16 +0000

We’ve been through the proposal, we’ve been over the code and sketched out an initial prototype, now it’s time to wrap up it up. The final day of the weekend is all about wrapping up the preliminary work and getting a first pitch together for presentation to investors. In this case, the Women 2.0 Startup [...]

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Startup Weekend Women 2.0 August 30, 2009: Pitch!

Startup Weekend Women 2.0 August 29, 2009: Prototype

David M. Doolin, PhD — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:45:44 +0000

I rolled in to sfCube around 10:30 Saturday morning… to a full house! This was really different than my experience at Open Social and the previous Startup Weekend, both of which really didn’t get rolling until noon. Saturday morning saw continued brainstorming of the Wardrobe Shuffle application, including some initial vision of who the initial [...]

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Startup Weekend Women 2.0 August 29, 2009: Prototype

Startup Weekend Women 2.0 August 28, 2009: Proposal

David M. Doolin, PhD — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:30:16 +0000

Startup Weekend came back to town! In this case, it was the Woman 2.0 Startup Weekend promoting woman-owned and operated ventures. I knew I had to attend, but only to help out, and not to get sucked into yet another project! This 3rd Startup Weekend for San Francisco was hosted by sfCube, a coworking and [...]

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Startup Weekend Women 2.0 August 28, 2009: Proposal