I’m at it again, second time around. I’m back in the madness/hellscape/euphoria of early stage startup life. Like giving birth to an actual child (I’m told), after a few years, you forget how bad the experience was, and just remember the great bits. That is what entices you to do it again. Then back in […]
Read More ›Startup founders are the subject of a very intensive content marketing campaign led by VCs. VC’s success come from investing in people that are so focused and determined to succeed, that they give up everything else until they achieve something rare and challenging: a large exit. Their business model relies on finding founders that are […]
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Oddly, in the last couple of weeks, I’ve had 7-8 emails from friends asking for some advice on affiliate marketing. It’s weird: I ran Skimlinks for 11 years, and yet as soon as its not mine anymore, people suddenly are curious about the wonders of referral marketing! The thing is, I don’t really know that […]
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I’m writing this blog post instead of writing an email. It would be an email to a fabulous proptech company at which I am the Chairman (Chairwoman? Chairperson? nah, I’m cool with Chairman). I figure I may as well write this advice down once and scale it, rather than rewrite it again and again for […]
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Just over 3 months ago, I set off on an adventure. I had bought a car (Lancelot) and loaded it with my puppy (Lumi) and quite a lot of other luggage, and drove off. There were many reasons for this journey. Partly to get away from the distractions of London to focus on my next […]
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Having a dog has been good for me. Better than I could have imagined. Lumi is a great companion: amusing, patient, loving, easy-going. She has made me laugh more in the last 6 months than anything else has. She has grounded me: she has made me want to travel less, restricted my options which has […]
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I’ve had a lot of time to think lately. Being on the road for weeks at a time, driving long distances with no one but my beloved but possibly autistic puppy, and with a mission to observe, understand and ultimately correct my own bad habits, has given me the space to see some of the […]
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I had a mission. A bold one. It was to go away to a beautiful rural setting, and find focus and flow so that I could achieve a number of deep work tasks. I intended to learn French. To learn to play the ukelele. To do yoga and meditation every day. To read the literal […]
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One of the phrases I generally dread from a solicitious email or conference attendee is “Can I meet with you to pick your brain on X?”. It is such a broad topic, and generally it means the asker is so far from being ready to do X that my help may well be a waste […]
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I have now had the pleasure of living in San Francisco for 3 months, and have experienced a great many times the frustration of either being misunderstood, not being understood at all, or even worse, laughed at for the quirks in my speech. It is unfortunately a testament to the nationalistic focus of many Americans […]
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