This article was originally posted on swombat.com in December 2011. If you try to sell things to businesses (as I do in the context of GrantTree), you'll notice a split in the mindset of people who run companies. "Can I have it for free?" Some
This article was originally published on swombat.com in December 2011. Today, right now, what is the best path out of the corporate world and into startups? What would I advise myself to do, 5 years ago, if 5 years ago was today? Let's start with some assumptions:
This article was originally published in 3 parts on swombat.com in December 2011. One of the most fundamental decisions when deciding to start a company is whether you will sell a product or a service. Most people will immediately pipe up that products are the best, but that'
This article was original published on swombat.com in November 2011. Businesses, investors and consumers alike are gregarious. They want to go where everyone else is going. They want to buy success, from successful companies. This leads to a perversion that affects the startup world as well as the rest
Learning to drive and learning to run a business are surprisingly similar endeavours. When you learn to drive, you don't know what you need to pay attention to. There are, seemingly, a million things going on, and some of them might kill you if you fail to heed
This article was originally posted on swombat.com on October 24th, 2011. Some years ago, one of my managers used to repeat this "Accenture truism" (or so he designated it): to fix or improve something, first you need the right people, then you need the right processes to
