A pitch is a powerful set of words that you send out to the world again and again. Eventually, if you stick at it and really get the pitch perfect, you will get what you pitch for. In business, if you get it right you can raise money, attract a team, engage partners and inspire… [Read more…]
October 6, 2011
Without a doubt Steve Jobs will go down in history as the greatest creative entrepreneur in history, rivalled only by Thomas Edison. He is one of only a handful of people to ever build more than one business worth over a billion dollars and his creations have been revolutionary. After creating the first personal computers… [Read more…]
August 2, 2011
Success follows a predictable pattern – Lots of regular little wins followed by a quantum leap. Success is not a linear process, it’s a staged event. Let’s take a look at the world of motor racing for a powerful example of this principle in action. Every formula 1 driver shares the same story. They begin… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
If I told you I had created a cake, would you expect to be able to eat the cake? Of course you would, because the word created literally means “to bring something into being; to cause something to become real in the world; to make something happen”. It does not mean “to have an idea,… [Read more…]
June 27, 2011
Imagine we live in 1876 and the first Microphone has just been invented. It’s an exciting new device that takes the human voice and amplifies it to many people. This new technology is fascinating to a lot of people. Imagine there are seminars and courses on how to set up a microphone, how to switch… [Read more…]
June 23, 2011
Tonight I heard people talking about how they are hoping to make some big, easy money on the internet. “We will be setting up a dot com business so we can make some passive income” they say. Their perception of an internet based business is that it’s almost a forgone conclusion that it’s a synch… [Read more…]
April 26, 2011
Last night I sat up late chatting with an entrepreneur friend about business. We talked about our favourite entrepreneur success-stories, small business trends, new business models we’ve noticed, businesses that we predicted would go bust in the next 5 years and all sorts of other topics. This is a normal conversation for me. I often… [Read more…]
April 19, 2011
Rarely do I read a paper or watch any news however this morning I picked up the Metro and was amazed to see what’s going on.The Entrepreneur Revolution is unfolding before my eyes. One skinny, commuter newspaper contains plenty of examples that indicate the impending Entrepreneur Revolution and the rise of the Global Small Business.… [Read more…]
April 5, 2011
I don’t know how many times I hear people talking about their top secret “valuable idea”. They get paranoid about sharing it, they worry about people discovering it, they want people to buy it off them and they think that it’s worth millions. Let me categorically say that (IMHO) valuable ideas aren’t worth anything. The… [Read more…]
March 30, 2011
Ten years from now there will be millions of “Global Small Businesses” (GSBs). There will be so many that it will surely form a new category of business. A GSB isn’t like a big global business and it’s not like a traditional small business either. As the name suggests, these are businesses that have less… [Read more…]
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