There is no easy money to be made
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a stark reminder to all of us who invest of the potential risks of putting money into the tech sector. Long gone are the days when growth was everything and it appeared to make big gains all you had to do is invest in a recently...
Just what use is knowing about founders failures
Earlier this week a prospective founder of a new business was pitching their idea to me, and I asked them the question I often use. “Tell me about some of your failures in the past”. It was like I had struck them with an iron bar, I truly got the feeling that they...
We all have dirty little secrets
One of the reasons I wrote the book “Simplify to Succeed” is that lots of people in business harbour a dirty little secret, or two. That is that parts of their business ‘education’ are missing and they ‘wing it’ at times when this...