entrepreneurship
Kim Heras and the Pushstart crew put on another Mentor Live event last night. Think speed dating for start-ups and mentors. I was privileged to get to participate as a mentor, and I thought I’d share some of the bits of advice a I found myself given out more
entrepreneurship
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
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 for pricing, jobs on oDesk or Elance, or really anything that will attract marketers
business-strategy
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 billion billed minutes in the first half of 2010 alone… 0.57% of the worlds Internet traffic is Skype traffic.
mindset
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 into any given situation. A person who knows stuff, but refuses to learn stuff will not be able to adapt to
personal
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 started smoking when I was about 14 years old, as so many smokers do, with my