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Processing experience into insight - retrospectives, lessons

Building

How to Kill a Startup — an Email I Should Have Sent 2 Years Ago

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 custome

By Casey Ellis · 18 Oct 2011
Building

Outsourcing — Use a Nom De Plume

If you’re like me and have one identity that you use for everything here’s a tip that will save you a bunch of pain… Any time you go out to market offering work, asking

By Casey Ellis · 09 Aug 2011
Building

Skype Outage and Lessons on Bcp

As I post this, Skype is still down globally. There’s little doubt that Skype is the largest player in the VOIP and Internet chat communications market globally – 6.8 bil

By Casey Ellis · 09 Dec 2010
Thinking

Life Is Learning

The single greatest personal skill in business is the ability to learn. The second greatest personal skill in business is to be able to adapt and apply that learning in

By Casey Ellis · 06 Mar 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