What are you? What do you mean, what am I? You are beer. And this bottle, is your company. You think, you’ll get into that glass. You’ll have fun. Isn’t it? But look at this [trying to pour the capped bottle in the glass]. Can you see?…
A tweet this morning pointed to an article titled “Stop talking about your brilliant startup idea!“, in which a fellow Melbournian writes (in summary): Nobody cares about your idea. Stop talking to your friends about your ideas. Stop talking to customers about your ideas. Stop telling me your ideas. As…
Ever insightful, Paul Graham, recently wrote about Schlep Blindness [http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html], a phenomenon related to overlooking hard and unpleasant problems: > Why work on problems few care much about and no one will pay for, when you could fix one of the most important components of the…
[http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html] > Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just…
In between high school and university, I sold my first commercial software, a billing application I wrote back then in Pascal for a banquet organizer in the neighbourhood. Those were probably the most satisfying $10 I had earned. It taught the programmer in me some simple yet invaluable lessons in…
“Do feelings of deprivation drive entrepreneurs and economies?,” asks Rosabeth Moss Kanter [http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2010/11/mark-zuckerberg-and-misery-as.html], a professor at Harvard Business School. After watching ‘The Social Network [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/]‘ one evening this week, I was left with feelings of inspiration and…
We have so many choices these days, and so little time to make a choice. From the choice of the right breakfast cereal to the choice of the right health insurance, we are trapped in an endless spiral of everyday choices. Last night, I watched a TEDGlobal talk by Sheena…
Here’s a meme that resounds quite often in the startup world: > Execution is more important than ideas. Good ideas are only so good in the mind of the beholder, unless proven to be useful or effective through execution. Ideas matter. The execution of those ideas [https://www.nilkanth.…