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Young and Stupid
One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don’t know that something can’t be done. So they try something that’s so audacious and usually end up pulling it off. Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures.
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First principles and philosophy: mental models, worldview, frameworks for understanding
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The Challenge — Because I Can
I got asked an interesting question over the weekend, one that I often asked other people: Q: What’s in your heart to do? My Answer: I want to build an empire. I’ve answered it many times before (and for the record, there are lots of other things that
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Myths from the 4 Hour Work Week
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 in particular is fantastic.
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The work/job/life Balance – an Idea on Enforcing Boundaries
One of the challenges us “part-time” entrepreneurs face is the creep of our “5 to 9″ (i.e. the side-projects) into our “9 to 5″ (our employment). We are duty bound to our employer to work for them while they are paying us, and it has become a core ethic
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Outsourcing — When to Remove Yourself from Your Own Life
This is an interesting way of looking at it… I’ll use hypothetical numbers for the illustration. This post is aimed at those thinking in terms of work or business, but the type of thinking can apply to anyone… I came up with a few creative ideas on how outsourcing
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Start something. today.
My dad has a saying that I love: “You can’t steer a parked car” You sort of can… turning the wheel is a bit harder… But I digress – the point of the saying is that it’s MUCH easier to steer something once it has some degree of momentum.
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Juggling Dual Roles
This is one of my favourite blogs… This post talks about some of the things one needs to consider when working a part-time “on the side” (or a “5 to 9″ as I like to call it). There are some very interesting points to consider about liability, how to treat
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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 into any given situation. A person who knows stuff, but refuses to learn stuff will not be able to adapt to
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Outsourcing My Life — Week 1
I mentioned in this post about getting a concierge service, delivered through a flat fee, through my credit card provider. Here’s an update on some of the tasks I’ve put them to in the past week: * Sourcing Adobe Creative Suite at the lowest possible price * Determining routes, pricing,
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Outsourcing — Thinking Outside the Box
I love the book “The 4-hour Work Week”. A mate of mine just posted in his blog about the beginnings of his adventures in outsourcing, using outsourced workers from the Philippines via oDesk.com to do property research (great post by the way – I thoroughly recommend it especially if you
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Bold When Others Are Cautious
I’ve probably spent too much time watching the stock exchange and the forex market over the past few days… What’s happening in the world economy at the moment is pretty much unprecedented over the past 50 years, and there is lots of reasons come from lots of places
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Whatever Your Hand Finds to Do
Image via Wikipedia Here’s the thing… I would describe myself as someone who is continually pregnant with the plans and dreams and hopes I know God Himself has planted in me, and will bring to pass. The problem is, there is the ever-present mundane-ness of the now… You know