Musings for the entrepreneurially minded
Posted in Life and Self on Jan 25th, 2013
Going through some old storage boxes in the garage the other day I came across the first digital camera I owned. In 1997 I was the proud owner of a Agfa ePhoto 307. At the time I was working for Mitsui Computer and as an Agfa dealer was able to be an early adopter for […]
Posted in Life and Self on Mar 28th, 2012
Life distills down to 2 boxes. Well that seems to be my experience anyway. For those that have seen the George Clooney movie “Up in the Air” it also basically lines up with his Empty Backpack Theory. Recently I have had to pack up the lives of elderly loved ones because they have passed away […]
Posted in Life and Self, Travel on Mar 13th, 2011
Recently I had an opportunity to ‘stopover’ in Paris for a few days on the way back to Australia from Western Africa. Though I had last visited Paris three years back with my son on a Europe soccer tour this particular visit gave me a different perspective. Without the rush of a strict timetable I […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Life and Self, Software on Sep 3rd, 2010
Over the last 8 years I have built two companies from scratch. Zero to greater than $1m AUD in annual turnover. Mind you both companies are not doing greater than $1m in annual turnover now but that is a different story! So what I intend to do over the next few weeks is build a business […]
Posted in Life and Self on Aug 6th, 2010
ChangeThis is a site that frequently posts manifesto’s that support and spread great ideas. Topics are diverse and most provide interesting reading. A recent short manifesto that intrigued me was The Six Invaluable Factors by Dave Crenshaw. Basically Dave outlines succinctly the 6 attributes that make one invaluable. The less valuable you are the more […]
Posted in Life and Self on Jul 31st, 2010
Recently I had an opportunity to visit my daughter’s classroom and was amazed at the degree of technology in the classroom today. Multi-media was everywhere. What an amazing vehicle to facilitate learning. I came across what must be the ultimate multimedia educational tool – animation. This is a brilliant, 10 minute video of a talk […]
Posted in Life and Self on Aug 10th, 2009
I enjoy reading books about Silicon Valley and the culture that prevails there. Recently I finished reading Nudist on the Late Shift by author Po Bronson. Another interesting book Po wrote was What Should I Do with My Life? For those entrepreneurs amongst us there are parts that ring a bell particularly those of us […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Life and Self on May 7th, 2006
Networking is a key element of the successful software entrepreneur. If you haven’t already done so you should subscribe to one of the major social networking apps for business on the web. Personally I use LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/) and have found it easy to use and effective. LinkedIn caters to business people with both free and […]