Posts tagged "ian whitworth"

This column is about how a plucky local iced coffee beat the biggest beverage brand in the world. We’ll come back to that shortly, but fir…

We asked a bunch of founders, business leaders and entrepreneurs to share what's on their to-read pile these holidays. Here's what they had to say.

"Mailchimp had a friendly, nice-monkey vibe since it was founded in 2001. No VC equity, the two founders bootstrapped it all the way. Accounting software outfit Intuit paid US$12 billion for Mailchimp in 2021. Big number. Someone has to pay for it. You know how this goes: it’s you..." Ian Whitworth shares his tale.

You visit a village that looks lovely at first glance. But almost every house is a holiday house, and there’s not enough year-round demand to sustain anything other than the convenience store at the local servo.

You will not have the big idea if you’re busy with lists all the time, writes Ian Whitworth.

Milkrun left enough money in the tank for an orderly shutdown. Its 400 staff got severance pay and creditors were paid what was owed.

In business, the charm of individual human character is on borrowed time.

How often do you deal with a company and think: can I really be the first to experience stupidity at a world-class level?

This year, when you’re deep in the business trenches, the game really has changed, writes Ian Whitworth. Rules that have operated forever have been turned upside down, at least for a while.

Ian Whitworth's experience with American beer highlights what can happen when you get too close to your product, or put product-obsessives in charge.

The last-minute grocery startup has a business model that seems to have cherry-picked all the worst, hardest and most expensive elements of running a business, says Ian Whitworth.

Last week, Ian Whitworth dropped a professional services provider that was "pretty integral to our business". The reason why was one of the most common ways service businesses lose customers.