Do you have the right background to win at small business?
By brendan at 10 August, 2010, 1:25 pm
A source of regular marital disharmony at my house is how issues at work should be solved. The end point of these conversations is generally one of us not speaking to the other for 10 minutes. My wife has spent almost her entire career working for large enterprises. I however have spent [...]
Read More >>How to monetise anything – part IV
By brendan at 14 July, 2010, 3:28 pm
Last post I continued the discussion on “How do I monetise anything” with a look at the value in a situation. This, the final post in the series, looks at identifying the Packaging that your monetisation should take.
Packaging
When I say packaging, I mean how things are packaged up, or what’s in the [...]
How to Monetise anything – part III
By brendan at 14 July, 2010, 2:44 pm
Last post I continued the discussion on “How do I monetise anything” with a look at the attributes of the situation. This post I would like to have a look at identifying the value in the situation.
Value
The second step in the process is to identify the value that the attributes of the situation [...]
Sweat Equity & the Bee Sting
By brendan at 17 November, 2009, 7:55 am
I staked out my spot in the shade at the skateboard park. Got out my book, biscuits and water bottle and prepared for a relaxing hour while the kids went completely berserk. It seemed like only 2 minutes later when all of a sudden there was that screaming that signifies pain, as compared [...]
Read More >>Its the great ideas I want, not just the good ones!
By brendan at 22 October, 2009, 2:44 pm
Last week it was my parents something or other wedding anniversary (north of 45, south of 50). I got my daughter to give her Grandmother a call to say “Happy Wedding Anniversary, thanks for making me possible”. Anyway we, my daughter and I, got into a discussion about who my family was. How could my [...]
Read More >>People in the Ecosystem
By brendan at 16 September, 2009, 11:22 am
In recent years I have met with vast numbers of people that didn’t even come close to living up to how they represented themselves. This has led to a desire for me (see how I’m avoiding angry words) to share some of my more bitter definitions of people in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. [...]
Read More >>Networking and Names
By brendan at 31 August, 2009, 4:42 pm
When I gave up the darts after 15 or so years as a smoker, it was really hard for me. I tried a whole lot of systems but they all failed. Then it occurred to me that the only thing the systems had in common were that they were systems, and hence I had something [...]
Read More >>Expanding your Network
By brendan at 31 August, 2009, 4:09 pm
Last blog I talked about the best Business Development people I know being great networkers, so I thought I’d talk a bit more this week about expanding your network.
Despite Social Networking being all the rage : LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook. I am not very keen on connecting to people I haven’t met. There is a concept [...]
Networking Numbers
By brendan at 31 August, 2009, 2:17 pm
I was thinking the other day about two guys I knew that were really good at generating new business. Earlier in the day I had dismissed both of them with the comment – “they are only selling into their existing networks”. but at my afternoon coffee, I wondered whether I had thrown the “baby out [...]
Read More >>A modern parable for tough times
By brendan at 28 July, 2009, 6:14 pm
Most forecasters seem to agree that despite the fact we have sidestepped the worst of the global financial crisis, we still have tough times ahead. And in tough times, one of the things you need to do is be innovative and work your assets harder. Note, Competitors that don’t innovate [...]
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