Insights and ideas

Explore thought-provoking perspectives from my long-running entrepreneurial blog.

There’s only one way to a 100x

The ground floor. If you want a 100x return on an investment, you need to get in early. Which means

There is no pleasure in hearing that you were right

So you can see an unhappy ending, so what? Why do you feel the need to tell everyone? If it

Focus on the point of maximum leverage

  You have a choice: Spread your energies across all your tasks, or pick the task that will have the

Find what you don’t like

Your sweet spot is what you want to find. Sometimes the way you find it is a process of elimination.

Don’t stress over bad decisions

You started a business two years ago and it’s going nowhere. You joined a company two years ago and you’re

No such thing as a free pen

In business, you sometimes come across freebies. A free cap. Or free dinner. Or free flight. Or free pen. There

Anonymous social networks may be a solution to racism

Do we judge based upon skin colour? Are we judging form or substance? Do we ignore what a person looks

An army marches on its stomach

These were Napoleon’s famous words. First, make sure your soldiers are fed. Everything else is second. Same for your company.

Hold nothing back

  Most times, you can avoid a fight. Better to mind your own business. But sometimes you have no choice. Sometimes