I recently joined the board of a Bondi charity that runs the local homeless shelter and women’s refuge. They’ve faced a few challenges…
I recently joined the board of a Bondi charity that runs the local homeless shelter and women’s refuge. They’ve faced a few challenges…
This article first appeared on June 26th, 2012. “If you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released too late,” …
I’ve run a start-up for a couple of years now and ran my own music company for eight years before that. Anyone who followed our progre…
This article first appeared May 7th, 2012. I moved to Australia from New Zealand during 2000 in my early twenties. Until then, I’d …
I remember being on a summer holiday at age nine just after Christmas, and hearing adults talk about their New Year’s resolutions. I liked t…
I’m writing today from the plane travelling between San Francisco and New York. I’m in the US for six days and it’s the third time I’v…
Yes, I promised that this week, I’d share tips on raising capital in Silicon Valley. But I’ve postponed that post. This blog is to fir…
I’m writing this week from the University Cafe in downtown Palo Alto. It became famous in The Facebook Effect book as the team’s regul…
Sometime or another, every start-up needs to engage suppliers: Lawyers, accountants, PR companies, design agencies, consultants – everyone…
I’ve talked a lot in this blog about the mistakes I’ve made over the past couple of years, what I’ve learnt, and the ways I apply all this t…
Last weekend, I spoke at the National Student Leadership Forum in Canberra about entrepreneurship. Ambitious uni students, nominated to atte…
In these blogs, I tend to focus on problems, because challenges and mistakes occupy most of my time. If you’ve read my earlier blogs, …