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Keeping the Lights On

I’ve had moments over the past months, just like most other people I know, where I’ve “looked down” (i.e. think of the scene in Shrek where they are crossing the bridge a

By Casey Ellis · 27 Jan 2010
Building

Sticking with Plan A

Quick thought… I’m the kind of person who is very quick to start working out contingency plans if a dream, goal, task or venture or mine doesn’t seem to be panning out.

By Casey Ellis · 27 Jan 2010
Building

Picking an Idea

I often talk to people that are absolutely chomping at the bit to start their own business, and the number one pre-startup question I hear in conversation is this: What t

By Casey Ellis · 25 Jan 2010
Hot Takes

The Coin in the Mouth of the Fish

Matthew 17: 24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax

By Casey Ellis · 24 Jan 2010
Thinking

Just Clearing Something up here... Nicotine Replacement Therapy

I’ve had a few funny responses from people I know personally to my Goals for 2010 post along the lines of: “Great goals – I had no idea you were a smoker though…” I sta

By Casey Ellis · 21 Jan 2010
Building

Skype Controls 12% of All International Calls

This is a repost from http://www.strategyeye.com/articles/digitalmedia/id/24649416. Interesting to watch this progress – the take-up of anti-monopoly solutions like Sky

By Casey Ellis · 19 Jan 2010
Building

umm, Excuse me… you’re Sitting on a goldmine.

I define the fundamental essence of business as this: Connecting low yield solutions to a high yield problems. In simpler terms, find something that is cheap or u

By Casey Ellis · 13 Jan 2010
Thinking

Goals for 2010

I only ever set 5 goals as a New Years thing… More than that and I get distracted. These goals ultimately spawn a list of tasks and sub-goals, but they are the “big rocks

By Casey Ellis · 30 Dec 2009
leadership

Bridging the generation gap

Baby Boomer: “Oh yeah, those young tackers will never achieve anything – they are always on their mobiles and that Tweeter thing.” Gen Y: “Those old farts have no idea w

By Casey Ellis · 06 Dec 2009
Building

The M-word (...and it's friend the S-word)

I’m a solutions guy. I see a problem or a need and I come up with a way to fix it cost effectively and efficiently. Some say that this is the essence of entrepreneurship,

By Casey Ellis · 22 Nov 2009
Thinking

Great expectations

What are your expectations for your life? Are you who you want to be? Does the question make you cringe and spiral into regret and self flagellation? Where did your exp

By Casey Ellis · 13 Nov 2009