My name is Jim Murphy. I'm an experienced, software startup guy living in Elora, Ontario near the illustrious Waterloo Region. I studied at the University of Waterloo Engineering School, have spent my career at early stage software companies in Boston and Texas before recently returning to Waterloo. I have been lucky to try my hand at many different roles: software developer, architect, evangelist, sales, business development, author, speaker, product manager, market strategist. Feel free to check my resume for more details.
So this in ancient history at this point but I’ve been sitting on a draft post for months and I need to “clear the pipes” so I’ll post it into the archives.
I attended Comunitech’s CEO Dinner last March and was hauled on stage for a lesson in humility by Marshall Goldsmith (along with Jeff Fedor and Terry Goertz now of ParkVu (I hear ParkVu is hot new hansom cab startup in the area)).
The lesson of the evening was: “Do you treat your spouse as well as you treat your customers?” Well, do you?
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I am glad that you remember our time together! I hope that is was useful for you.
Absolutely Marshall, thank you!
Its now something I think about on a regular basis. Its so easy to fall into the game of chasing success without remembering the point of it all - or at least trying to find a point.