ideas
There is an enormous amount of information and advice about creating a business plan for one's startup. The advice ranges from the necessity to prepare a traditional narrative form business plan document, to preparing a business model canvas, or using a business planning tool or app. There are
ideas
Business Insider In large companies personality tests and similar instruments are often deployed to provide people with better insight into their own and team performance. Over the years I have participated in many of these - for example, Myers Briggs, DISC, Belbin Team Roles, Hermann Brain Dominance, 16PF, Big Five
ideas
The biggest hurdle facing most startups is to stay in business long enough to be successful. If they accomplish this then they have the chance to turn into an 'overnight success' after many years of hard work. The numbers are against most new businesses. Many new businesses fail
speaking
Here are the slides from my talk at the Products are Hard Conference: Hardware is Hard - Products are Hard Melbourne 2013 More information about the conference is here on the Products are Hard site.
startups
A mate reached out to me today asking if I knew any geeks who would be interested in working with him on a startup project. Here are the details he shared: We have developed some outrageously good Intellectual Property and concepts, and the plan is to rapidly prototype for 6-8
startups
If you've got time it's worth taking some of it to watch this interview with Jason and Gary. Jason Calacanis, himself a serial entrepreneur, is a great supporter of startups with his LAUNCH Conference. Gary Vaynerchuk is a well known entrepreneur who built up his family
community
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 those smart folks over at Innovation Bay will be running another one of their angel dinners. With these dinners Innovation Bay acts as a broker between "angels" (those with money to invest or advice to give) and "entrepreneurs" those with ideas
ideas
In late November I spoke at Startup BarCamp in Sydney. The topic was about the kind of personal trade-offs & choices we make when choosing to work in a startup. These choices are not always immediately obvious when you go into a startup. However, the number of broken relationships and
social computing & social media
When two of the nicest and smartest people I know start talking about a new idea they are working on I get extremely curious. So when @jedwhite (entrepreneur & startup guru) and @mediamum (mainstream & social media maven) shared this video they caught my attention. I'm very curious