Entrepreneurship

Founder journey, startup lessons, and business strategy

  • Hypothesis Driven Business

    Over the last 5 years I’ve had the opportunity to integrate and work with about a dozen different companies – some big, some small, every one of them different from the others. One interesting approach that I have experienced over the last few months by one of those businesses is to take a scientific approach…

  • Crypto Currency Rabbit Hole

    Over the last several weeks I have been getting deeper and deeper with my crypto currency investments and knowledge. I have been a long time holder of bitcoin and purchased my first few way back in 2013 when 1.0BTC was roughly $50. I bought a couple more last year. In the most recent couple of…

  • Keep Moving Forward

    My current project is picking up. The more I think about it the more excited I become about the potential value that will be created with it. Things took a significant step forward on Friday with a meeting with an accountant firm and corporate lawyer.  I’m taking the weekend to think through the options they gave…

  • Team Communication Overhead Costs

    I’m in the middle of undertaking a large software project – something that could take 200 hours to get to an MVP. I wanted to get things organised. My first thought was to use some of the tools I’m used to – Trello for a kanban style board, bug tracking, continuous integration services, Slack. But…

  • Finding a Coach

    Learning new things that affect the core of your being is a challenge not many people take upon themselves.  Yet it could be the personal pivot you need to make a genuine change. Many years ago I took a Dale Carnegie course, it showed me a side of myself that I couldn’t get from my…

  • Brilliance of Elon Musk

    Either you’re trying to make something spectacular with no compromises or you’re not. And if you’re not, Musk considers you a failure. Of all the entrepreneurs in the world, none have the same ambition that Elon has to make the future into the present. For that I have a ton of admiration. Science fiction has…

  • Programmatic Models

    Recently I’ve been interested in finding a business investment – something like a B&B that allows me to put some of my retirement savings into a business that I have some control over its success.  The normal process for something like this would be to write a business plan or at least do some back of the…

  • Experimenting with ECommerce

    Over the last couple of weeks I have been spending some evening and weekends working on building some e-commerce websites. If I were to Define Ecommerce, I’d say that it is the most advanced platform for sales, and which has the higest percentage of reception by customers worldwide. Right at the time that the iPhone…

  • Power of Iterative Progress

    Software startups often talk about iterative improvement.  It’s a development model where by you focus on an easy to reach but minimally sustainable business model and then iteratively improve things and add features over time. The process of getting to that first product release is perhaps the hardest thing to do.  It requires having a…

  • Making Longterm Plays

    In an age where we expect everything quickly it seems that it can be harder to have the patience to endure long term investments. People are career hopping between companies and entire job types more today than at any time in history.  Employees who want to progress up the ranks find that a quicker route is…