In spite of what you may believe, Bangkok isn’t a city known for it’s great espresso. While it’s true that you can get a Thai iced coffee on almost every street corner in the city, getting a quality cup of coffee was rare until recently.

I was last here four…

I see this job title / description too much, and the only way you’ll ever find the person you’re looking for is to poach them. Unless you’re extraordinarily lucky, every one of the people who can fill this position for you is already happily and gainfully employed.

The job description describes a few people I know, but the few people out there that do have the “full stack” skill set are highly sought after and only propagate further this myth that your startup will be able to find such a person.

It’s as meaningless…

I’ve seen many posts over the past few months proclaiming that businesses shouldn’t touch social media (such as Facebook or Twitter) with a ten foot pole.

This advice couldn’t be more misguided. In terms of selling online, I know of people consistently averaging 10x returns from Facebook ads and I…

I was chatting to a friend the other day about the struggle they’re having with the dev firm they’ve hired to build the base technology behind their startup. A story I’ve heard too many times. They’d agreed to certain specifics and dates with the dev firm, and the dev firm…

We launched Version One of Hello Pretty 3 years ago almost to the day. We’d been burned on our previous startup by focusing too much on tech and not enough on marketing. By the time we’d finished building the web app, we’d run out of money to put anything into…