One day last year the police were banging on my door, “Open up!” and the owner of the Airbnb…
Raising capital is really difficult, no matter what anyone says about the influx of…
It is no secret that the state of Indian healthcare is concerning and a potential crisis in the making…
Too good to be true?
There’s a paradox when it comes to LGBTQ people’s involvement with the inception and growth of the tech industry.
Today there exists a massive gulf between traditional financial markets and the Ethereum ecosystem. Just over one year ago, Som Seif and I began to conceptualize an entity that could bridge these two worlds.
Ever since we started Aiir, I have talked to so many people that have ambitions to start their own business and have great ideas. And so many tell me that they aren’t ready. But when are you ready?
“I have learned never to ridicule any man’s opinion…
A few years ago I had the opportunity to interview my close friend and mentor, Terry…
“You need to take care of…
This is a long post. What started as a letter ended as an essay. Many of the issues outlined are shared by the Global Startup Community in general and are offered in order that Sri Lanka doesn’t replicate these mistakes in building its own…
An impromptu interview with our CEO, Boštjan Pišler.
I thought of the title whilst out walking my dog. I didn’t even know there was 3 R’s in…
Global changemakers gathered in University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School to exchange…
By Rip Rapson, CEO and President of The Kresge Foundation
Over the last decade, philanthropy’s relationship to city government has become dramatically more complex and multi-dimensional. In cities across the country, philanthropy has evolved from…
Nancy Taylor and Hannah Franco have decades of combined fashion industry experience and spent many years working alongside one another while at Athleta. Going their separate ways in 2014, they threw a dart…
We took Jackson’s Sydney Financial and Mortgage broker business Yellow Brick Road to $2.1 million while reducing his hours and getting his lifestyle back. Watch…
The -40 Concept
A little-known fact to the world is that at exactly -40 degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius are aligned, granted that is colder than any person would like to ever be in, it is the point where the two systems meet and then one over takes the other. Remember…
If you read our last two articles, you know we are advocates of the “MVP” way, a lean approach to building a product/company based on the book “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The first few months of a startup, the ones leading to a product launch, can…
“More and more research is telling us that customers want to interact with us differently…
Whether you’re a musician, event specialist, an athlete, a painter, etc., your passion, your craft, is your art…
In today’s business culture there is often a focus on acquisition. The gold, quite literally, at the…
PreSeries predictive algorithms crawl the web hungry for startup information. So far, almost 400k companies have been ruthlessly processed, scored, and ranked. Today, we offer you a sneak peek at the…
March 24th, 2018. A sea of about 200,000 protesters walked through the streets of Washington…
Why do some salespeople make more than $100,000+ while others struggle just to pay…
Key lessons I learned that really would help you to prevent or revive in times of trouble!
<Since our flagship product nTwine started seeing the daylight of development as well as go…
Written by Berend Jan Kleute, 2017 YTILI Fellow, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
4 Similarities between Entrepreneurship and Golf
Not too long ago, golf was viewed as a sport of the elite and the wealthy in the society. However, this has…
Wanna and Donna are two bees. And like so many bees, they are sisters. But unlike their other…
Have you ever wondered why some people are more successful than others? Have you ever thought of what some people do which brings fortune to their lives? What do you think is the cause of people loving some poor people? What is the reason why some people are famous while some are not? Why are some people respected and loved by everyone while some are…
Famed Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky said, “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” I often lie to myself with an unrelenting slyness reserved for rat-fink thieves. I am torn about whether the lies relegated to my internal dialogue is best blamed on fear, ego, or…
Profile Picture: A profile Picture is one of the 1st things your followers will see and still a lot of people make mistakes here. If you own a business then your profile picture should strictly be your logo. If you are a Coach, Consultant, etc. you should have a professional looking…
Entrepreneurship exists in all aspects of society, centered around forming ideas and…
In this podcast, our Founder and CEO Tim Clipsham discusses Good Software Co. and…
We’ve all heard it before.
What’s that?
You know, the old adage, “April showers bring May flowers.”
Well, it just hit me — TODAY — how true that is. And I have Facebook’s ‘On this Day’…
Andrew Kozlovski remembers his freshman year at the University of Southern California Marshall School of…
Many people know that I love CrossFit. I don’t do it as much as I used to but it is still…
Sometimes the muse hits me and I know exactly what to write about.
Sometimes it takes me just two minutes to write an entire post.
Sometimes it feels like I’ve never done anything else than this. It’s just there. I…
…thou art a heartless wench 🖕
Read more about agents and other agent positions here and apply for the Router job here.
The Router is an Invisible Agent which controls the flow of all client messages to and…
Most people are so busy with their retirement. You know why? Because soul crushing jobs will make sure your…
In this episode, I interview Dan Murphy who is currently the head of sales development at CultureAMP. We discuss his role as a manager and how he manages a sales team across 4 different offices around…
Celebrating in style.
As is today, we base our lives on everything we see, hear, feel and/or is going on around us. There are believes, there are assumptions and then there are facts.
Michael, exceptional read. I agree, real learning happens when you get intimate with learning. When learning creates a new context for your life. A new way of seeing and the freedom that comes with. Then you are hooked!
I’ve seen a lot of stories in places about how to succeed through personal growth. I’ll be polite and not offer a critique thereof. Because one learns from one’s mistakes, and I’ve got many years of major screw-ups, here is some dynamite advice for those who will do what it takes to get a better life.
I’m a brand strategist, working primarily with large consumer packaged goods corporations in the US. I’ve always…
Quick update for all of you following our journey. Lots done over nearly a year now…some great things in the…
Imagine you walk into a networking event. You register, grab a drink and start wandering around. You’ve learnt…
As you grow in your career as a software developer, a natural next step is to jump into independent consulting. You have greater control of your time, can make more money, and have the freedom to pick and choose the projects that you work on. But when I talk to people who…
So, It has been 3 and a half months since I started my entrepreneurial journey, and it is really exciting to see it for what it is. I have a lot of exciting moments each week along with some disappointing ones. So today, I rant about crumbling under pressure.
Choose systems over goals
The spiritual development industry has given EGO a bad rep. Many spiritual leaders continue to preach that in order to rise…
Do not just settle for riches or wealth, striving to make an impact in your world is THE true marker of success.
In the year 2018, I see hand-holding and cupcake compliments. What happened to criticism and authentic attention?
I like the sentiment of the article. The power to harness a method and let it go is a rational step in the progression of a service designer. That said, I believe the “make things and talk to people” can easily be reduced to service design tacked onto UX production which SUX. I am not saying that you are suggesting iterative production is the way…
Final instalment and Part 5 of the UK ‘Roadshow of Research in VR+Kids’ by storycentral for the Children’s Media Foundation — hosted by Dubit in Leeds.
Hi Lina, who are you and what do you do?
An inside look at the WJD Exclusives specifics of how we decide what to do and then decide how to do it.
Welcome to the The Front Desk by Worksmith. A weekly wrap up of what is happening in food, drinks and beyond.
Modern software development environments and design practices facilitate a significantly better user experience.
Taylor, AMAZING READ.
“Why is that? Almost by definition, someone who makes C’s is right about 70% of the time. They are the people that said “I know about 70% of the material, I’ll just take a crack at this test and see how it goes.”
Most of us have life goals, or yearly resolutions: start going to the gym, have a raise at work, manage to grow a plant and keep it alive.
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What’s the same about being a CEO in the 90’s? The company with the best people wins. It’s all about building a high performing team. I think that’s universal, that’s absolutely timeless.
Read the full article here.
Yes. Persistence and grit are the keys to success with almost anything. Certainly with writing and blogging.
You are an inspiration. You’ve worked hard for your success.
I am challenging myself to show up everyday. I want to write because it makes me happy. Going viral? Well, maybe that happens and…
I recall Zig Ziglar once saying that 'anyone who is switched on all of the time, is on something.’
I am going through a hard time in my life at the moment. A couple of my recent posts have been about that. But even through this hard time I am writing here. Putting up posts at least twice per week. Commenting everyday.
The thing you didn’t do but said you’d do just turned into two things you now have to do…
Originally published at yanngirard.typepad.com.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the…
Here’s a thought experiment from a speech by Astro Teller of X (Alphabet / Google). It really…
Last winter, my friend came to me with the idea to optimize and reduce the cost of travelling…
As I write this, it’s 9:45 pm and I am sitting on a wooden chair that is slightly leaning back.
It’s a bit cool, one of those summer night with the cool breeze.
A lot of people dream of being “their own boss”, and by 2040, roughly 75% of Americans will be working as independent contractors. Why does one want to be an entrepreneur and how can we help our current employees achieve it…
I was only 11, it was 100° in the shade, and I was cooling off in the river when it ‘hit’ me.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The…
You might be sitting here thinking, “I don’t need to know about APIs. I’m not a software engineer or computer programmer, I’m not a tech person,” but to exist in today’s world of technology, it helps to at least have a basic understanding of what’s going on…
Denis, need to shout this from the rooftops, “Do you know why you can relate to Mark Manson when he talks about the subtle art of not giving a fu*k? Your former baby self used to live and breathe that philosophy”.
When you ask, “What has been your experience with the learning process”?
Pedro Manuel Costa wrote an opinion piece in Publico about “pés de barro” of the Portuguese Startup Ecosystem, following the Chic-by-Choice debacle. I feel inclined to comment, as being responsible for Startup Portugal, and together with Joao Borga and the…
It is a fact that, since the revolution, the Tunisian startup scene has expanded : Talented young university graduates are launching startup companies, creating an impressive wave of civic entrepreneurship throughout the country. In fact, Despite the…
Everything started with a question I received on WhatsApp.
Well, i don’t think the freak should fit in- let the Freak Be! Many of us go through life trying to fit in,trying to ride with the popularity crowd, actually we even switch friends so that we can be accepted.Imagine,having eye brow extensions that you hate,or hiding your…
We work and not fret!!!
Speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari says many Nigerian youths just want to sit down and do nothing, banking on the notion that Nigeria is an oil-rich nation.
It’s fascinating what you see when you sit back and observe. Today I treated myself to a HEMA…
It’s not working. I tried. I don’t have enough money to continue. I’ve failed more than you could count. I really tried. More than…
In today’s episode, I’m going to talk about the best place to start your life as a Digital Nomad.
In this episode I PLEAD with you to stop waiting for investment in our big idea before you get started, or waiting until you’ve saved up thousands until you’ll…
Here at Volta, we know a thing or two about moving offices. In 2015, we moved from the…
Have zero expectations and rely on nobody.•••Being a person that holds high expectation of others and relies on others to do things is just ineffective. It leaves you open…
We used to have them.
We grew up in a different era…didn’t we (90s kids)…
While working on one of my properties the other day, my partner and I stumbled on a spare bedroom full of donatable goods; such as furniture, toys, and board games. Instead of throwing the items away, we decided to load the truck up and donate it to a good cause.
Hi Alexis,
This is a great article on companies going to the Unicorn status. After helping out both unicorn companies and non-uni(s) I have noticed that unicorn companies tend to hit a sweat spot in the market with their products/services. They also (for the most part) have their audience and numbers locked down:
Your network, your circle of connection has a direct impact on how well your business does, and how well you do. Bottom line, it has a direct effect on your net worth. Watch the video to learn more.
Hi Tim Rettig ,
Thanks for the reply. I can see the sense in your plan. It would be effective to follow your routine, get a week ahead and then spend time editing, revising and then publishing.
This is where it’s good to focus on Evergreen material so that it’s not time sensitive. You’ve definitely…
Self development is flawed.
This is such a brilliant piece I cannot begin to tell you how much it resonates. I viewed myself as relatively successful until recently when something (once step up the tree) caught my eye so now I am chasing this new ring of success. Am I relatively successful? Sure. But am I satisfied with where I am? No. My lessons on success I have learned is…
Entrepreneurship can be condensed into simpler but heavy keywords like innovation, ideas, risk, and most importantly, decisions. It’s important to opt for a motion that is smart and helps your business grow. Often, the…
Take A Time Out
I stopped all work for a weekend. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I did nothing but non-work related things — music, art, great food, horse time, friends, more…
As technology evolves and internet connectivity allows people with different quirks, backgrounds, and interests to connect to one another, business opportunities emerge from all over. Entrepreneurship today has become much…
Would-be Entrepreneurs see possibilities. They’re inspired and excited so they jump in and start doing stuff. My advice? Don’t Just Start Doing Stuff. Stop. Organize….then start doing stuff.
As a person I am not entirely familiar with sports. I have never been a sporty person even throughout my childhood, but I do understand the allure and drive that comes with it. For this video project, I wanted to challenge myself by tackling a topic I am not so familiar with.
In the television series How I Met Your Mother, Barney Stinson, gave a dreamy proposal to Quinn. And the proposal he gave was magical in all the practical sense. It had magic involved! And of course, she…
Nowadays we pay more attention to be prosocial and open to others, in every aspect of our lives. Being in a good relationship with people, coworkers and business partners has become a desirable feature on the labour market. However, there is a…
WHAT NOW-BILLIONAIRES ACTUALLY STUDIED IN COLLEGE
There’s no clear path to become an entrepreneur, everyone makes its own but the destination is same for all. And the one thing is clear – “entrepreneurs do not do it for money”.
Today I’m going to talk about driving traffic to your business or sales funnel. It’s one of a big struggle some people have.
Many people would like to have an independent source of income, but they fail and very often loose their savings because they don´t focus correctly.
I couldn’t hold but add this point to Steven Sinofsky’s recent post Managing through disagreement.
I often come across, in my own experience, that each person in the team has some personal intent/goal…
Steps to apply for Pharma Franchise Business- There is no doubt that pharmaceutical industry are the topnotch business sectors. Lots of people are investing in this particular domain due to its high revenue returns in low investment. It is the amazing…
by T. Perry Bowers
I’m a creative person. My mind is always full of ideas. And, I do my best to…
I haven’t made any money yet, so does it even count? Its true being engaged in your dreams is happiness. Achieving your dreams would be great for two weeks or so, but unless you soon engage in a new dream, unhappiness usually follows. That’s where that saying comes from “There…
yeah, I agree — you really can’t have it all. I have learnt this lesson the hard way by falling down pretty hard. It was really tough managing a full time job, new family (twins), a side hustle, and everything in between!
Thanks for this good reminder to us all!
Is your big trade show right around the corner but you do not know where to start to have an eye-catching booth and successful…
For this blog post I chose to examine the Ted Talk by Jane McGonigal. In her talk, I believe she is trying to reach the audience of not only gamers but people who want to make a difference in the world. To answer the question of what the difference would be if she addressed the audience or not; I believe…
In all the digital nomad groups I’m in (and there are a lot of them) I find that most of the questions are super generic “how do I get started” “how do I make a shopify store” “what is the best place to…
Lao Tzu said, “The Journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” This means the first step is the most important one to take. Every other step cannot happen if the first one does not exist.
What is the first move you need to take but have been reluctant to take? Are you…
What are the basic requirements for starting a business?
Today’s self-empowering communication to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
