Family man, seeker and learner. Revealing my inner-poet. 2X Founder: Conversio (acquired by Campaign Monitor) + WooCommerce (acquired by Automattic). Ex-Rockstar.
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Family man, seeker and learner. Revealing my inner-poet. 2X Founder: Conversio (acquired by Campaign Monitor) + WooCommerce (acquired by Automattic). Ex-Rockstar.
When building a business: add value as much as you can, give your customers an incredible experience with your company & brand, be sincere in your marketing efforts and authentic about earning a profit off of their willingness to spend money with you.
I wanted to elaborate on my thoughts about creating a business model by firstly solving a problem for yourself [http://adiirockstar.com/post/634469136/the-idea-for-selling-our-own-software-really-came] . Whilst this is an incredible way of building a business, there’s a few thoughts that I’d like to share on the matter: * If
I wanted to elaborate on my thoughts about creating a business model by firstly solving a problem for yourself [http://adiirockstar.com/post/634469136/the-idea-for-selling-our-own-software-really-came] . Whilst this is an incredible way of building a business, there’s a few thoughts that I’d like to share on the matter: * If
I know this is something that many VC’s & startup founders have spoken about, but Campaign Monitor’s story again highlights that if you’re building something to solve a problem that you have, you are most likely also solving a problem that others may have. WooThemes - for example
This is my presentation - Lessons Learnt From WooThemes - at NetProphet [http://www.netprophet.org.za/2010/05/net-prophet-2010-adriaan-pienaar/]. You can also see my slides from the presentation over here [http://www.slideshare.net/adii/lessons-learnt-from-woothemes].
startupquote [http://startupquote.com/post/604060576]: > Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. - Drew Houston Hopefully my “once” was WooThemes [http://woothemes.com]. :)
Crazy kids.
Doing some research work on “designing a user experience” and stumbled onto this amazing TED talk by Don Norman. Do watch “The Three Ways That Good Design Makes You Happy”.
I felt so inspired by this post and specifically loved this bit: > These business models will leverage thepassion [http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2009/11/pursuing-passion.html] of individuals, createnetworks [http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2010/02/shifting-identities-from-consumer-to-networked-creator.html] and build communities [http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/
The world would probably be a better place if all employees had this attitude towards their work, but instead the world is riddled with people who absolutely hate their jobs and just-just manages to contribute the minimum of which is expected of them.