One will chase a thousand
Most times we start alone, with very few support, if any. We pour in all we got – skills, passion, money, everything and yet, the vision still seems some what a little further out. For your projects, businesses to grow …
People, Products and Profit
When we have people, the kind of people we can work with, we can team up to create products* From products, we will make profits. Profits for everyone. Most people build their companies around products. So, you have a brilliant …
#TeamDelivery
We thrive on ideas, but our day-to-day business is all about delivery. This is one of the key nuggets I learnt from Richard Branson. Delivering products and services as promised. On time, every time. Delivering on promises made yesterday as …
Our deepest fear…
From Marianne Williamson: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to …
Venturing out into the weak areas
People say stay in your areas of strength and delegate out your weaknesses. Another camp says that we should actually delegate your strengths and work out in your areas of weaknesses. I think I will take camp B’s advice. We …
The thing about excellence that lazy people don’t like
Excellence has a price. Lazy people always want the good things in life but are not ready to work to get it. A lazy person doesn’t pay attention to details and most times, the magic is always in the details. …
Club iBBN
I am starting an online club, explicitly named “Internet Business Builders Network”, (iBBN). I guess the name says it all. The Internet Business Builders Network is a community of people that are fed-up with been broke, people that are fed-up …
So, a judge blocked Whatsapp in Brazil again. Na wa o!
Interesting times as a judge in Brazil suspended Whatsapp for 100 million people in the country. The reason for the suspension was not made public. An appeals court already overturned the application’s second suspension in five months. Not so many …
Those long deadlines
I think an important work of the effective Team Leader (that’s you, by the way) is to chop up deadlines suggested by your team members. Every now and then, I want something done and my guys are suggesting long, far …
The #1 thing you need to do with your product/service idea
The #1 thing you need to do with your product/service idea is to get real world feedback about it as soon as possible. Talk to prospective customers, find out their pain points and look for how you can really solve …