Tuesday, September 22, 2015

The Startup Scene is Broken

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Startup companies that turn into major runaway successes are as rare as pigs with wings. Think of the venture capital industry as that an...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Startup founders don’t need to become billionaires to be successful

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If you wrote down the name of a failed tech startup on a piece of paper and then stacked those pieces of paper you would have a stack tha...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Apps are disposable– embrace it

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How often do you use an app for? Days or weeks at most for the majority, some may make it a few months, but there are probably few we use f...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

The limits of the sharing economy and on-demand services

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AirBnB and Uber are great companies, and with only a few quibbles I hope that they will succeed for a long time. (My quibbles are mostly al...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Forcing a choice: how companies get you to pay more

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The setup for forcing a choice is very simple – offer three choices. Two choices will be similar, but differ slightly in a key feature su...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Identifying True Grit In A Startup Founder

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“ If you are going through hell, keep going .” – Winston S. Churchill Jessica looked more than exhausted when she walked into the coffe...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Your customers are rational…. Just not the way you think they are.

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Recently I have been enjoying reading The Logic of Life by Tim Harford. He is an economist who uses the framework of economics to understa...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Passion comes from experience

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If we all followed our passions when we were 20 years old, we’d all be musicians, actors, bartenders, artists, professional surfers, bari...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Maslow's Hiearchy of Needs - Are We Getting It Wrong?

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We all hear about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. HR use it as a reason to talk about your career and work life balance. Want to be entre...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Are we over ‘Authentic’ yet?

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Authentic means all the good things, such as genuine, done with passion, original, and not taking short-cuts. I frequent ‘authentic’ ca...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Driver, Passenger or Navigator?

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I’ve invented a new personality test this morning (freshly baked) to help you categorise people so you can get the best out of them. ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Your data is your memory - we need to make it searchable

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I confess, I’m a digital hoarder. I have back-up drives, copies of hard disks, I keep hard disks from old laptops and desktops, I have old ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

What risk will you take today?

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I had this phrase put to me recently, and I have to say I like it. I have been spreading this as a meme, and I thought I’d share a few idea...