entrepreneurship
tl;dr: I love your idea. I want to hear about your idea. Please, do not interpret this post as me stifling your idea. But an idea without a commitment to execution is useless… at best an interesting conversation over a beer or a coffee. Don’t let that be
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I was approached with a simple brief… The client, a start-up rookie trying to make a break from his 9-to-5 as a builder, wanted to have some level of comfort that the initial production run of his product would sell. The product we were marketing is targeted at the 15
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This is a quick little how-to that will hopefully save a few people some pain. I’m going to presume you know what eBay is and how their auctions work. eBay auctions are designed to make potential buyers nervous about the idea of losing the auction to someone else. The
business-strategy
Excuse the profanity, but this is really worth watching. [2011/03 Mike Monteiro F*** You. Pay Me.](http://vimeo.com/22053820) from San Francisco Creative Mornings on Vimeo. Mike talks specific to the design industry but it applies really to any professional services or consulting business (tech, security, financial, business,
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Sellerwise.net was my first real tech start-up. As a business it had a lot of potential – a genuine need in the market, lack of competition, a massive potential customer base, and fantastic initial take-up… And then one day the company I was singularly reliant on (eBay) decided they’d
entrepreneurship
“Here’s the difference between a visionary and an entrepreneur. Both have visions, which are a dime a dozen. But an entrepreneur has, in addition to visions, plans. In addition to plans, actions.” – Bob Metcalfe (Founder of 3Com and inventor of Ethernet) from this article in Technology Review.
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An interesting trend in Internet marketing is to deliberately under-inform prospects re what your product is about. You provide just enough info to get them to click on the link to the next thing, which provides them with just enough info to get them to the next thing… etc, etc,
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If I’m really honest I’d have to say that I don’t really know what the Tall Poppy Group is yet. I know what I want it to be – But how does one describe across the gap between present reality and future potential? The best I’ve come
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Anyone who knows me, or has read more than a few posts on this blog, will know that I love Timothy Ferriss‘ book “The 4 Hour Work Week“. The strategies are awesome, and the book is inspiring on many levels – The D.E.A.L. strategy is a fantastic model.
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So you’ve had your light-bulb moment, there’s stars in your eyes and your new idea is making everything seem bright and lovely. Seems like the perfect time for a reality check… I wrote a post on proper business planning here, but as a “lighter version” here’s a
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Entrepreneur… It’s honestly one of my favorite words. There’s something so empowering and liberating about it – a label and a title that affords the wearer freedom and creativity in business… What I DON’T like about the word is the sense of exclusivity around it, like it’s
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1. What am I passionate about? 2. What am I really really really good at (another way to ask this – “What could I be the best in the world at?” 3. What types of people do I enjoy connecting with most? You’ll be tempted to ramble, so try to