Archive for the ‘Strategies and Tools’ Category

I had a good chat with a friend recently who’s running a young fast-growing service business that offers web-related services. Not surprisingly, his main concern is cash flow – funding the business as it takes these big steps. Get big fast Growing quickly is a wonderful problem to have, but not an easy one. [see [...]

A good plan violently executed is better than a perfect plan executed next week – Paul Graham No revenue vs no profit Chris Anderson has some very well-publicised – and criticised – views on a “Free” business model. While “Free” effectively describes a revenue model [or no-revenue model for the free stuff, to be precise], [...]

There’s something about simplicity… something intoxicating and enthralling. Something that makes my heart skip a beat. I’m a bit of a simplicity nut. In some ways, I think we all are. KISS … … Keep It Simple, Stupid. Everyone thinks that life should be all about choices, but what do you do when you’re faced [...]

One of the philosphies I struggled with in my formative years was from a great basketball movie, “White men can’t jump”. It went something like this: “Sometimes when you lose you actually win and sometimes when you win you actually lose, and sometimes when you win or lose you actually tie, and sometimes when you [...]