A Year in Review – and my Goals for 2013

A Year in Review – and my Goals for 2013

I’ve been an avid goal setter for years – and I believe it’s one of the most important things that a successful person can do. In this post I’ll share my goals for the year ahead – and review how I did on my goals for last year. Why do I bother? Well there’s a [...]

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How to Grow a Fast Growth Startup

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In this video interview, I’m joined Dan Martell, founder of Clarity Dan has launched a number of successful startups in the past decade including Spheric (acquired ’08), Flowtown (acquired ’11) an now Clarity (which has recently hit its 10,000th call milestone) – one of the most powerful products out there for helping new startup founders and [...]

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How to Get Investment for your Startup

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In this video interview, I’m joined by Startup Investor Julian Carter Julian is MD and Co-Founder of EC1 Capital – an investment firm that specialises in investing in early stage web and mobile startups. Julian’s fund typically invests $80,000 – $320,000 (£50K – £200K) and Julian is on the look out for great startups to [...]

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Ignite it! Entering a Startup Accelerator

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It’s not every day you get to cross a Life Goal off your to do list. That’s exactly what Andy (my business co-founder, awesome developer dude & lover of Muller fruit corners), and I are doing.  We have entered a startup  into a startup accelerator. Entering a startup in a startup accelerator has ben on [...]

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Mobile Marketing Mastery: How to Get to the Top of the App Charts

In this video interview, I’m joined by Entrepreneur, Mobile Marketing expert and founder of Mobile Dev HQ – Ian Sefferman I came across Ian when reading an amazing post he did explaining the fundamentals of mobile app marketing, and I knew he would be the perfect person to discuss the subject of mobile marketing in [...]

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How to Hit 4 million Users in 6 months – A Startup Case Study

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                    How to grow your startup from zero users to  million users, in just 6 months? That’s the question I’m regularly asked at startup events when they hear about the success we’ve had with I Am Playr (the social game I work with), which we launched [...]

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How to Prototype a Successful Startup, with Amir Khella

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In this video interview, I’m joined by Entrepreneur, startup advisor and user experience designer Amir Khella Amir has designed and helped launch more than a dozen startups (including Ustream, Docverse and many others). His own latest project Keynotopia was launched in 3 hours with a $47.50 budget and had it’s first paying customer in 10 [...]

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7 Reasons Why Your QR Codes Suck

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                            QR Codes are the Hottest New thing in Marketing, Every Marketing Campaign Needs a QR Code – yep we’ve heard it all over the past year And my, haven’t we seen lots of QR codes. Question time: How many times have [...]

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How to Grow an Influential Community, with Paddy Cosgrave

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In this video interview, I’m joined by Irish entrepreneur Paddy Cosgrave, In just 18 months Paddy has created two truly global events that the most influecial names in tech want to speak at and attend: F.ounders and the Web Summit series. Speakers at these events include: the founders of Bebo, Twitter, Skype and Bono to [...]

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How I went from $0 to $7,620 per month (my Lifestyle Design experiment)

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              Just over a year ago (before I started this blog) – I went on a mission to be a digital nomad, to work for myself in a ‘location independent’ fashion. In this post I’ll tell you how I went from earning $0 to $7,620 a month while doing most of my work [...]

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