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Focus on the Product
In light of the $20mm to $35mm sale (depending on who you’re reading) of Weblogs Inc to AOL many pithy words of wisdom are emerging about Jason Calacanis. So why shouldn’t I add one. In his what now? post, Jason tells the following Mark Cuban story: Mark Cuban (who’s the best investor you could ever…
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Donations from your customers
The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable is the new book by Seth Gordin and The Group of 33 Authors. While I’m waiting for my copy to arrive, a review mentioned How would you run your business if you relied on donations from your customers in order to survive?”…
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Flickr
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. So I’ll be adding photos more often.
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Low doc loan fine print
When things are going smoothly a low-doc loan is a great way to get an investment mortgage without the hassles of paperwork and producing tax returns. Beware the fine print. I took out a low doc loan from Liberty Financial in August 2004. These are also called non-comforming loans and generally come at a higher…
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Update alert email vs rss
My email notification service is not very popular. I’m glad of that as many of you follow this blog using RSS (thanks for watching). I don’t think email is a good medium for blog updates. I want to quote skippy Email notification is not the best use of resources for most blogs. I wrote my…
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Silktide SiteScore and others
I’ve been trying to evaluate this website to clarify my view of what it actually provides. There were some interesting tools to help the technical side. Anybody know of others are out there? Update 6 October 2005 I am proud of the high sitescore I get on that site. It’s currently 8.4 out of 10…
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Growing a business
Mentors are wonderful things. Either casually of formally organised, getting another perspective from someone who has been there and done that is valuable. There is something to say for a mentor’s “larger business” perspective. Plus if your mentor has entrepreneurial experience it’s the best of both worlds. A mentor does not have to be an…
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Live 8 the African Reality
Lest this become a love in… I do have reservations about the ability of a rock concert to affect meaningful change in either the G8 or Africa. The G8 ministers have a fundamental belief in the superiority of western economic organisation. Anti-globalisation protesters don’t faze these guys. A billion rock concert eyeballs will get a…
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Live 8 Live Internet Radio
Of course I am getting extreme geeky right now. I’ve got the BBC’s feed of the London concert via WinAmp digital radio. So Annie Lennox is on BBC, Bryan Adam is on Fox 8 and Zucchero is on Fox+2 I’m getting tired. Given I’m on UTC+10h at the moment I’m hoping the Tokyo coverage will…