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Failing or Flailing?

By admin at 12 May, 2008, 10:16 am

In the late 80’s when I was training to be an Army Reserve Officer, one of the major training (and leadership development) techniques that had a major impact on me was ownership of failure. If you taught a lesson and more than a handful of people failed the quick test at the end, then you [...]

Sticky Labels

By admin at 6 May, 2008, 1:37 pm

Instead of writing some amazing strategy insight, I thought Id pass on a simple tip that will save you time and frustration when dealing with your computer. When I started an IT Services business called Edion in 2000, we had one spare computer used for centrally storing and sharing all our stuff. This file server [...]

Acknowledge!

By admin at 6 May, 2008, 1:06 pm

I grew up on old war movies, especially movies with fighter pilots, such as the Battle of Britain In fact up until the age of 13 I thought I was going to be a fighter pilot. I badly wanted to to be wearing a leather helmet and goggles, and saying things like “Roger Wilco, Over [...]

Hard or soft serve?

By admin at 23 April, 2008, 12:32 pm

Last year I met with a British researcher who was out in Australia to talk about Innovation policy. From my point of view, the interesting thing about David Connell was that not only was he a researcher at Cambridge, but he was also, until recent years, the CEO of a Venture Capital fund specializing in [...]

From Kitchen table to IPO – Pick up the New Skills

By admin at 18 April, 2008, 6:34 pm

Last week I talked about the selecting your Advisors when going public that came out of the Churchill Club programme “from Kitchen table to IPO”. which we ran on the 17th April. We were joined by Silvio Salom of Adacel Technologies Ltd , Leon Lau of Peoplebank Ltd and Michael Abela of Mobi Ltd . [...]

From Kitchen Table to IPO – Select your Advisor carefully

By admin at 18 April, 2008, 1:43 pm

Last week I talked about the strategy for going public that came out of the Churchill Club programme “from Kitchen table to IPO”. which we ran on the 17th April. We were joined by Silvio Salom of Adacel Technologies Ltd , Leon Lau of Peoplebank Ltd and Michael Abela of Mobi Ltd .. This week [...]

From Kitchen Table to IPO – What’s your strategy?

By admin at 18 April, 2008, 1:21 pm

During the dotcom era, the Holy Grail was to found a technology company, get capital, list it then move on. But very few achieved this. In fact the few that did setup business that listed generally hung around and had some fascinating learning experiences on the way. So on the 17th April at the Churchill [...]

Square Rooted

By admin at 15 April, 2008, 3:45 pm

Sometimes little bits of ubiquitous technology are much more useful than meets the eye, sometimes not. Consider the square root key on a calculator. Outside of high school, only a handful of engineers seem to use it. But it’s on every single calculator despite the fact that 99% of the population isn’t actually sure what [...]

Complete Communication Complexity

By admin at 31 March, 2008, 9:57 pm

I said to my wife, “I believe my problem is I have current and future communication complexity”. She said “w*nker”. I said “I’ve got a phone problem” so she said, “then fix it”. 1. I work out of 3 offices (that’s including the kitchen table at home). 2. At one of my offices, I am [...]

How to Execute a favour

By admin at 19 March, 2008, 10:36 am

How to execute a favour (is it just me that this sounds weird to?) A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I dislike favours Almost certainly someone whom knows me well has read the article and thought b*llshit, you’ve done me favours! Its not true though, I don’t do favours anymore, I only [...]