Ever wanted to know what happens when you get caught up in a high profile hate campaign?…
Last week I published a post about how Sneaking Duck and Clens, 2 businesses our startup studio (25Fifteen) operates, were caught up in a hate storm directed at…
After more than 10 years as the longest running tech meetup in Australia, the Sydney Tech Meetup as we know it is now finished.
I loved this piece in Wired I read over the weekend. Based on the book No Exit by Gideon Lewis-Kraus it highlights the harsh, harsh reality of startup life.
This is not me having a pessimistic view of the startup world. Nor is it some sort of schadenfreude. Completely the opposite. I’m…
It was my wife’s birthday yesterday. She’s an awesome woman who is world class in her field, which is always inspiring.
Yesterday, however, it was her birthday that inspired me to think. Her birthday, all birthdays, new years days and all of the other…
Just read a great letter from the 1970’s penned as a response by a physicist working on the US space program to a nun working with children in Africa.
The nun was questioning the value and cost of space exploration in light of the…
I get intro’d to a lot of people. I also get cold-contacted by a lot of people. I don’t really mind it, in fact I consider meeting new people a perk of being involved in the startup community.
Back in the day when the community was much smaller, new people I’d meet usually knew someone I…
I read a great Techrunch post just over a week ago.
Semil Shah highlights how the WhatsApp story challenges some of the Valley’s conventional wisdom e.g.:
Conventional wisdom says that any startup worth its salt ought to be globally focused from day 1.
At a high level that makes sense as the Internet is a global marketing, payment and distribution machine that gives domestic entrepreneurs easy access, for the first time, to…
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