Archive for the ‘Think’ Category

So you want to build a business, hey?
What do you really want to achieve? Why do you want to do it?
Think about it. It matters.
Do you just want to get rich, regarless of whether you add value or not?
With reference to building a community [city] that supports startups and entrepreneurs, Chris Dixon had this to [...]

My how times have changed.
“Life has been transformed into an interactive experience, and every individual is now a portion of a developing collective mind.”
- Stanley Bing, writing in Fortune magazine – Jan 18, 2010
Can’t say I fully agree. Life was an interactive experience long before computers were even an Apple in Bill Gates’ eye. Giving [...]

I wrote this recently comparing Yahoo’s failure with Geocities to eBay’s success with Skype.
Excerpt: “Anyway, nuts to anyone who says eBay failed by buying Skype [for a tad less than that actually] – at least they are looking to recover some if not most of what they paid, plus it was a cool business to [...]

The SABC [South African Broadcasting Corporation] is South Africa’s beloved national broadcaster. Back in the day [not too long ago actually] before satellite/pay TV and Channel e, the bastion of free speech, it was the only real source of televised programming available to South Africans.
Lately there’s been a lot of noise around the SABC’s financial [...]