Dreams Meet Reality
So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Dreams. You dream of building the next multi-billion dollar company. You dream of giving talks worldwide, San Francisco, Paris, New York, London, Lisbon. You are already dreaming of what magazines like Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, and others will write about you. And so it comes to pass that you […]
The Empire Strikes Back
In a real statement of the current digital age, a business that’s in the business of aggregating 15-second dance videos capturing the attention of over a billion people is getting married to an aging software, once demigod, who themselves are still trying out their own dance moves – the WTF moment, think Mick Jagger tying […]
The Smartest Guy In The Room
“The gambling known as business looks with austeredisfavour upon the business known as gambling”. Ambrose Bierce 1882 All businesses go through their lifecycle taking gambles. Early stage is your kind of ‘poker money with some mates’ gambling, at the other end of the scale you have investment bankers and their Las Vegas copycat business models, […]
Demi-Gods
Once upon a time Demigods who were once human, later became deities. Earning demi god status meant you had to qualify through levels of predefined categories: looks, ability to go to war, wisdom, and fortitude.