Creating Brilliance

You know Awesome when you see it. Check out this Brilliant idea

 

Have an Awesome 2012

The First Impression

Amazing products always have awesome design. And part of awesome design is awesome packaging. Its the first impression…

For electronics its the unboxing experience

For food its the way its served on the plate

For films, its the title:

The Title Design of Saul Bass from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

How Bad Do You Want It

 

A Bad Listener

 

Sometimes its good to listen to others. Often its best to listen to yourself.

Impossible Is Nothing

Here’s to the crazy ones

The Learning Curve

Very few have succeeded out of the gate. The best of the best have failed miserably many times. But they got up and did it again. And again. And again. And awesome things happened.

Two tips for hiring your first salesperson

Note – this post was also featured on building43.com

Working at a Startup is great. Its probably one of the most exciting jobs anyone could have, you get to create something from nothing – literally taking a napkin with some doodles on it and turning it into a dream that is about to come true with millions of enthusiastic customers. Unfortunately, somewhere between the napkin-doodle and your 1,000,000th customer, someone actually needs to say “yes, I would like to buy a few copies of that fine piece of software”, and for that  to happen you need  to hire your first salesperson… Bummer. Read more

Startups can beat the software giants (a recap)

I’ve been getting a lot of traffic to my first ever post, about a month ago, “how can small software startups beat the SW giants?” and lots of comments in mail, twitter, etc.  So – here is a collection of posts that include tips that are very relevant to software startups. Keep in mind one thing as you read these – you can dare to be different, the big companies cant…  Think about it as you go through the links below Read more