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By the time you reach year five of a business journey, something fundamental shifts. The early excitement has faded, the obvious mistakes have already been made, and the business no longer feels fragile in the way it once did. At the same time, it stops being forgiving. You cannot rely
Entrepreneurship
There comes a moment in every entrepreneur’s life when the numbers stop making sense. You worked for it. You built it. You took the risk. You put everything on the line. And then you finally look at your company profit and your personal bank account and think: “Where the
Business strategy
In the age of crowdfunding, Kickstarter has emerged as a symbol of hope and innovation for countless entrepreneurs, inventors, and dreamers. It's a platform where creators like me can turn their ideas into reality by securing financial support from a global community of backers. Yet, for all the
Entrepreneurship
The term “dog eat dog” is a gross understatement when applying it to small businesses. A mind boggling fact: 80% of all small businesses will fail within the first few years of operation. This is a very sobering statistic, even if you’re not trying to run a small business.
Business Mindset
....you have to keep moving forward. 2014 has been a turning point year for me. There can't be many times in an entrepreneurs life that so many things can happen to cause a great amount of change, and for me, both personally and professionally, this has been a
Entrepreneurship
When I'm out talking to people about business, technology or their start-up ideas, I get asked often why I think their idea hasn't taken off or gotten traction. Although I'm not a leading expert in the field of traction, what I can observe
Entrepreneurship
You go to sleep everything, having done the things you've done, hoping that what you've done is going to either move you forward in your life, or at least taken care of what you deem to be important. After all, don't we all do
Entrepreneurship
There's a reason why in the army, they can have such small teams of people do incredible missions and accomplish unbelievable tasks. They call it military precision and that's how you should be in your life if you want to get the things you want like
Entrepreneurship
I found this video a while back in its short form and recently came across the long version and realised that there was more impact when the video was placed in context. This was Arnold Schwarzenegger's now legendary "Life's 6 Rules" speech, originally used
Business Mindset
In any line of business, no matter if you are online of offline, there is no substitute whatsoever for putting in some hard work and doing the 10,000 hours which Gladwell talks about in his book Outliers. When I hear of all these so called "internet marketing"
Business strategy
My mind is positively buzzing with new ideas after another day full of reminders and new insights into the world of online marketing. I’ve been in this business myself for a long time, yet there is so much more to learn. Wherever we may be in our lives, whatever
Business Mindset
We’ve all heard and probably used that saying "actions speak louder than words" but what does it really mean to you? There have been many other quotes over time about the power of action, one that springs to mind is Benjamin Franklin's quote; “Well done