Why do entrepreneurs love to inflict pain onto themselves?
As a starting business you can try to sweeten your customers in many different ways, but don’t subsidise their operations at your expense!
There is more to funding than angel and venture capital
The search for finding funding always has a business need behind. Don’t limit yourself to finding investors who take your equity.
We see the world as we want to see it…
As entrepreneurs we are sometimes so stuck in our ways, we see the world as we want to see it.
The case for not completing tasks…
Productivity should be about optimising one’s time, and sometimes the most optimal use of time is to waste it…
Growth is an effort by all…
It’s interesting: the bigger a boss you become, the more people look at you to have all the answers…
Doing something is not always better than doing nothing…
It seems though as if post launch many founders get bored with their first prototypes and prefer to start something new and exciting again, leaving it as a finished product or service in the market.
Fake it till you make it, but stay honest about it!
The entrepreneurial journey is filled with experiences that are better not shared with anyone. Nobody needs to know all the ins and outs of your journey, and a bit of mystery never killed anyone.
There’s no excuse not to leapfrog!
One of the advantages of living in an underdeveloped economy is that the number of opportunities to leapfrog are plentiful.
Don’t stress the week ahead!
I used to always see Fridays as the day to wrap up the week, but these days I approach it as the start of my next week…
Only we can break the ultimate status quo
We know that entrepreneurship is by no means limited to sector, geographical location, gender or race… yet nevertheless thanks to the omni-present stereotypical narratives I regularly fail to identify with being a true startup founder.