Category: Startups

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

This was originally posted on swombat.com on October 6th 2011. I’m sure there’ll be thousands (probably tens of thousands) of blog posts, comments, and other forms of expression and eulogies…

This was originally posted on swombat.com in June 2011. I regularly get asked about my time in Accenture, and my transition into entrepreneurship, both by people who are trying to…

This article was originally published on swombat.com in May 2011. From my father’s blog about wisdom: The trouble with values is that they are all good. Most people will swiftly…

This article was originally posted on swombat.com in December 2010. This question pops up regularly on Hacker News. What will kill Facebook? Before that, it was “What will kill Google?”…