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 like the Business model generation canvas, a business plan, an Excel financial model, etc. You&
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 everyone makes the consistent effort to get there. Writing is not a skill that you can pick
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 a new machine, to hesitating, to buying a top spec Razer Blade for £2.7k instead. I
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 Apple Fanboy for years - to which I replied I'm just a fan of good technology and
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 the Advice Process. We were a few months in the experiment at GrantTree, and it was going well enough that
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 (still is, I think) a publicly listed energy company that pioneered many of the concepts of open culture
