This article was originally published on swombat.com in February 2011. Yesterday, I attended an IP Review Event organised by the Intellectual Property Office in the UK. The focus was a…
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How to use metrics in a startup
This article was originally posted on swombat.com in February 2011. Over the past few months there have quite a few articles about metrics, which are, of course, a very important…
How to write good startup advice articles
This article was originally published on swombat.com in early 2011. Startup articles, much like some other content niches, have a tendency to be addictive but content-free. Everyone is guilty of…
How to evaluate and implement startup ideas using Hypothesis Driven Development
This article was originally published on swombat.com in January 2011. So you’ve come up with an interesting idea. You think it might work. You’ve sketched it out using various tools…
How to get better at writing
This was originally published on swombat.com on December 6th, 2010. Writing is an essential skill for entrepreneurs. How do you get better at it? Everyone can be good at writing, but not…
Adventures away from the Mac
When the new Macbook Pro was announced, I was not shy to judge it wanting. Those weren’t empty words, either – I went from being willing to spend £4.5k on…
Apple’s Ballmer phase
Some thoughts on the Apple Keynote yesterday, the new Macbook Pro, and its impact. Background: I switched from Windows to Mac in 2006. Never looked back. People have called me…
An update on the Advice Process
Is it possible for everyone in a company to have the same power to make decisions as the CEO? A year and a half ago I wrote an article about…
GitHub: The quiet death of one man’s dream
When I first read Reinventing Organizations, Frédéric Laloux’s excellent study of open culture organisations around the world, I remember being moved and puzzled by the tale of AES. AES was…
Values show up at the extremities
“A gentleman is a gentleman even in the gutter.” Popular Romanian Proverb What are your values? How do you find out? How do you test them? How do you know…