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If only Twitter had listened to me a year ago! They wouldn’t be in the pickle they are now!

Published by Julian Stone on June 11, 2008 in Design, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS and Strategy. 0 Comments

About a year ago, I did a series of YouTube vids for a laugh and also to share some advice I’ve learnt along the way developing www.proworkflow.com with our talented team. Although I’m a year older now, and a bit more wise and weathered, this advice still stands. Please excuse the poor quality of the sound - I was experimenting with a camera and got some lag.  But I bet Twitter wished they’d listened to the first vid!

Here’s the series! Have a watch and tell your friends!

Business Tip - Don’t scale up before testing!
Learn why you shouldn’t scale up you web business before testing your internal systems and processes.

Business Tip - Don’t Make a Startup!

Learn why you need to make a ‘Started-up’ rather than a startup.

Business Tip - Be Good Don’t Suck!

Learn how and why you need to be good at what you do and how not to suck.

Business Tip - Low Inertia Web Businesses!
Learn why people love to hear a physical voice behind an internet company or web based business.

Business Tip - People love to hear a voice!
Learn why people love to hear a physical voice behind an internet company or web based business.

Business Tip - Fish in the Demo Pool!
Learn how and why you should be fishing in the demo pool of your web based business.

Author: Julian Stone - CEO, www.proworkflow.com & www.julian101.com

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Teaching business literacy

Published by Daniel Fowlie on June 6, 2008 in New Zealand. 0 Comments

(cross posting from itsjustbusiness.co.nz)

Kiwi teenagers ‘business savvy’

Interesting article in today’s paper about businessman Tony Falkenstein’s efforts to educate teenagers to think about business opportunities. He says that most teenagers don’t grow up in a household that talk business so it never enters their minds that they could be in business.

I think this is valid point. I think a lot of my own desire growing up to one day have my own business stems from the fact that I grew up with friends and relatives who undertook their own successful business endeavours. As a teenager I made unrealistic statements about being retired by the time I was 21. Looking back now it seems silly. I’m 5 years overdue and far from that goal. But at the same time I probably have a better chance than most other people my age of getting there. I have a business which while not flourishing yet, at least I’m out there giving it a go. And I have a small network of successful people I can call on for advice.

Mr Falkenstein’s efforts at this old high school are fantastic, but it will take it more than just one high school to change the culture of a country. That is a much bigger challenge.

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