No one is unstoppable forever.
mhsuttonLooking at the current landscape of tech giants, from Facebook to Google, from Stripe to Intel, it is almost impossible to imagine they can ever be out-spent or out-competed.- Whilst…
My 15 Year List of Ideas is a Ready Made Company Selector
For the last 15 years I've maintained a list of ideas to build - things that both excite me and improve the world. I've kept it pruned, adding new ideas,…
Yes, learning is hard. But do it anyway.
It seems popular, these days, for coaches and consultants to talk about 'continuous learning' or the 'learning organisation'. Learning is like sex - everyone nods knowingly when it is being…
I am tired.
I'm tired, very very tired of trying to build startups. So very tired of starting from scratch with every idea. Of the hustling and the hacking. I'm tired of hearing…
Make a donation and I'll speak with, coach, train or mentor your team for 1 day.
A gift for your company or team. If your company/team needs a spark to improve it's delivery capabilites, perspectives, focus, vision, value system and (no tomatoes please) culture. Then I…
Downtime in the Age of Cloud Computing
We are working on an experimental mobile based social photography app called Snaptime and we have an ambitious plan to have it on the various app stores by the 1st…
A week of amazing things.
3 amazing things happened this week First - the fundraising target for my Long Walk on Camino de Norte was reached in less than 24 hours. Then I hired a…
My Web Summit 2015 Experience – the really short version.
TL;DR Web Summit was a major experience. There were a lot of people - the organisers claim 42,000 people were in attendance - and it felt it. If you aren't…
Why every business is a startup or soon will be.
Every business - however large and however profitable - is a startup. Or is about to be. The big WTF is that they just don't realise it yet. This epiphany…
Take Back Sharing: Why #Uber , #Lyft and #AirBnB are not part of the sharing economy
Sharing is... a babysitting circle When my wife was growing up, her parents - like many young parents of the day - needed to organize childcare. They were far away…