After two decades building and running technology companies, I wanted to approach Chapter 4 differently - not by forgetting what I’ve learned, but by questioning everything I thought I knew, because I believe with AI, the rules have changed. That’s what Ascendius is about - and this post
Analytics sounds smart and data-driven. But for most people, it’s just homework they’ll never do. Here’s why analytics is a trap for founders who build it - and for the leaders who buy it.
<Update> Dec 2012: So, it looks like Christmas has come early. As mentioned in my April update below, the SSN barrier has been impossible to overcome. Until now. Thankfully, the legends at Stripe (Disclosure - AffinityLive pays them a lot of money, they don't know we
I've spent a lot of time over the last few months doing marketing planning for Hiive Systems. Unfortunately, our product is targeted at the professional services sector - think consultants, creatives, advisors, and that sort of thing. I've been really conscious in this marketing process NOT
I'm writing a talk for the Enterprise conference at CeBIT, which tries to unpack what makes people spend hours and hours a week interacting with and updating Facebook, and what enterprise applications - particularly those that benefit from collaboration and which are often "higher level" tools
CeBIT is happening in a month and a bit in Sydney, and this year they've decided to focus the eyes of the tens of thousands of show visitors on a new showcase section, called Webciety. Webciety is going to showcase a dozen of Australia's hottest web-software
My company, Internetrix, has been expanding into the Chinese market gradually over the last year or so. Part of this has led us to register a couple of .cn domain names. As a result of some plans we made a year ago, we registered a .cn domain name, in this
I wasn't that surprised to read Mike's post today about some really bad stuff happening over the last 6 months. I didn't know the details until I read them on TechCrunch, but I knew something was up when I messaged him to let him
I recently got a letter from a law firm in the US, alleging that my new business, Hiive Systems, has infringed their trademark. Unfortunately for them, the best they could do in claiming a trade mark was allege our logo was similar to theirs (we don't think it