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North Stars & Magic Moments — Find Your Startup’s Missing Piece!

And understand how it can propel both your user/customer growth and fundraising… Did you experience that special feeling when you near completion of a complex puzzle? You know, where the pieces seem to snap home, without effort, as if your hand is guided by some external force? Or, if…

Startup

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Do You Know Your Startup’s Missing Piece?
Do You Know Your Startup’s Missing Piece?
Startup

7 min read


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Goodbye….. to all that! A founder’s competitive advantage…

How did that happen? One minute 2020 was back-to-back groundhog days and now we’re about to wave it all goodbye… Which brings to mind how ‘letting go’ is a huge competitive advantage for founders — if you can deploy it — and a better way to approach 2021 New Year’s…

Startup

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Goodbye….. to all that! A founder’s competitive advantage…
Goodbye….. to all that! A founder’s competitive advantage…
Startup

4 min read


Dec 25, 2022

2023 Prediction — Curiosity Beats Competence

Why we need to re-think our startup teams In case you haven’t yet tried ChatGPT from Open AI — take a look here. It writes blogs, articles and answers for any question. Is it biased? Yes. Is it misogynistic? Yes, if you ask your question in a slanted way. But…

Startup Teams

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2023 Prediction — Curiosity beats Competence
2023 Prediction — Curiosity beats Competence
Startup Teams

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Dec 19, 2022

Startup-ing, Fast and Slow

The LEAN idea of ‘launch fast and iterate’ doesn’t work and what to use instead… and how my new startup taught me to startup better. In honour of the ground breaking behavioural economics book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, I thought I’d leverage their key idea — Starting up, Fast and Slow. However, instead of thinking, fast and slow; I’m Startup-ing, Fast and Slow. This idea captures my insights of the past couple of months, as…

Lean Startup

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Startup-ing, Fast and Slow
Startup-ing, Fast and Slow
Lean Startup

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Jan 20, 2022

What Three Things Determine Startup Success?

Spoiler: they are engagement, engagement and engagement! Engagement for your users (well, we already know about that), but also, engagement with your top clients (now you can’t take them out for lunch) and, more noticeably, engagement with your team (which used to happen naturally because you were all in the…

Startup

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What Three Things Determine Startup Success?
What Three Things Determine Startup Success?
Startup

6 min read


Feb 18, 2021

How to Be an Optimist in Difficult Times

Startup leaders and founders are called to set up a vision for a better future — but how do you do that when times are tough? Startup leaders need to be optimistic, forward looking and full of hope. That much goes without saying. But how do you do optimism when…

Startup

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How to Be an Optimist in Difficult Times
How to Be an Optimist in Difficult Times
Startup

4 min read


Jul 27, 2020

New Revenue in the New Normal World — 12 Steps to Success

Startups don’t need anyone to tell you that your revenues depend on digital marketing. Nor do you need reminding that ecommerce sales have (more or less) doubled and virtual sales meetings have replaced physical ones more or less overnight. However, after the urgency of the coronavirus-driven full virtual switch, it…

Startup

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New Revenue in the New Normal World — 12 Steps to Success
New Revenue in the New Normal World — 12 Steps to Success
Startup

13 min read


May 26, 2020

Community — the source of (nearly) all future sales and brand influence!

Coronavirus has re-enforced how interconnected each of us are to everyone else, and this thread now weaves through nearly everything we do to build our startups…and community, and community building lies at its heart. The rapid prioritisation of community even shows up in dating habits too where companionship, not sex…

Startup

11 min read

Community — the source of future sales and brand influence!
Community — the source of future sales and brand influence!
Startup

11 min read


May 18, 2020

How to get it Right for Business Development in a Time of Crisis

Building new channels of leads and sales is expensive in terms of time and/ or resource — so, is now the right time to make the investment for your startup? And if so, how do you do it? In this article we look at business development from a strategic and…

Startup

11 min read

How to get it Right for Business Development in a Time of Crisis
How to get it Right for Business Development in a Time of Crisis
Startup

11 min read


May 4, 2020

The eCommerce Future of Digital Marketing Post Lockdown

Digital marketing, and in particular, digital advertising is holding up surprisingly well in the coronavirus induced recession. In this article we take a deep dive into why that is the case and the sectors to which it applies. …

Startup

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The eCommerce Future of Digital Marketing Post Lockdown
The eCommerce Future of Digital Marketing Post Lockdown
Startup

9 min read

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Neil Lewis

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