Flushing The Data Portaloo: The Looming Portability Squareoff With Users
How close are we to true data portability? It depends who is asking the question as to how it gets answered. As one of the chief catalysts for the current wave of discussion and (some) action, Chris...
View ArticleTechCrunch5(2) Reductio: “Sell to Google, Never!”
This was definitely drinking-from-the-fire-hydrant week in California for high tech startups. Three days of TC50 demos, parties with Scoble-Mooregate verifying the echo chamber effect is alive and...
View ArticleFour People Is All It Takes To Change The World
I have a huge amount of respect for Robert Scoble. His intellect, his dedication to his task of curating trends and his personable approach make him a stand out in the Silicon Valley community…, no...
View ArticleChomping At The Bit: How To Find iPhone Apps
Australian serial entrepreneur Ben Keighran is starting to make waves in Silicon Valley again with his new venture Chomp. With fellow Aussie co-founder Cathy Edwards and funding from Ron Conway, Blue...
View ArticleGrowth.Reinvented: How Leading Companies Create a Concerted Front For...
As evidenced by numerous surveys, growth is the major enduring focus for business leaders. However, growth is tackled ad hoc across many organizations. Leading companies drive rapid, sustained growth...
View ArticleA World Leading Entrepreneur Growth Program for Leaders
EXOscalr is proud to launch its world leading Entrepreneur Growth Program, which is designed to provide early to mid stage companies invaluable insights into achieving high growth. The Program runs...
View ArticleAre Entrepreneurs Suicidal?
The topic of depression in startup founders is becoming more prominent. It is an important discussion that was highlighted when outspoken serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis was asked his views by a...
View ArticleVenture Capital: The 5 Essential Fundraising Rules
Entrepreneurs are faced daily with so many unknowns, so much chaos and survival pressure. Adding fundraising into the mix can often feel overwhelming. How do they keep their heads above this murky...
View ArticleFear and Hope
Fear is the ultimate tool of oppression. Dictatorial regimes and bully bosses are past masters at using it as a tool for controlling their citizens and staff, respectively. People can be manipulated to...
View ArticleFear Revisited
Fear. It’s always there. It can either liberate or bury you. It all depends on how you deal with it. Compare fear with the wind. When it is a gentle breeze against your cheek, you hardly notice it....
View ArticleHow to Create Meaningful Behavior Change
No matter when or how strongly motivated you are, behaviour change is hard. The best of intentions can still lead to a low probability of turning a decision to adopt a new habit or break an old one...
View Article3 Ways to Boost Your Energy and Immune System
Health Tonics Last week I shared with you a method for creating meaningful behavior change. This week I want to share some further practical advice, this time around boosting your energy and your...
View ArticleBreaking Through Control And Ego: Shifting From Fear To Empowerment
Breaking Out of Your Trance! After my sudden cardiac death I remember feeling sad as I lay on a hospital bed in intensive care. I was sad at the thought of never being able to glide through the water...
View ArticleHow to Increase Engagement With Compassion, Purpose and Positivity
We live in an increasingly narcissistic world in which more and more people are suffering from depression and killing themselves. Suicide rates have increased 24% in the last 15 years. That is a huge...
View ArticleThree Ways To Become a Better Leader By Waking Up To Your True Self
Design your own wake up call and become a better leader. I want you to join me in an exercise in expanding your mind and opening your heart. The objective of this exercise is to help you become a...
View ArticleHow To Change Our Relationship To Negative Feelings
I want to share with you some thoughts around how we can change our relationship to negative feelings through meditation. Our aim in meditation is to form a different relationship to things we are...
View ArticleHow To Successfully Reinvent Ourselves
Do a google search on the phrase reinvent yourself and you quickly realise that this is a pervasive and perennial question: google tells us that related searches include how to reinvent yourself at 30;...
View ArticleTranscendent Near-Death Experiences : Key Learnings for Leadership and...
Imagine for a moment what it would be like working in an organisation that is under huge pressures to grow, to transform itself and to beat the competition; an organisation that is mandated to do more...
View ArticleSurfing: An Altered State Inducer
I’ve been surfing for over 40 years and still love it. To me it is a fantastic way to build up brain waves conducive to entering an altered state of consciousness and especially acts as a trigger for...
View ArticleHow to Find Universal Truth through Emptiness
This is a spiritual contemplation on rebooting the ultimate universal program. Find a quiet space to read through it slowly, breathing deeply and slowly and let a feeling of deep peace come over you....
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