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.
A couple of weeks ago I was wondering out loud whether I might just be a one-hit wonder [http://adii.me/2011/03/one-hit-wonder/]. The fact that I did not share at that time, was that I had already made the decision to close down Radiiate [http://radiiate.com] (my
A couple of weeks ago I joined AngelList hoping to get into the angel investment scene and diversify my own business interests (as well as meeting new people and having stimulating / challenging business conversations about their work). I've had a couple of introductions to startups which I thought had some
I love the description of a startup above and agree wholeheartedly with Eston’s views on why titles actually do not matter. This is a similar approach to what we have at WooThemes, where we’ve never been overly fussed about titles and specific job descriptions. And the only reason
I’ve made a decision to stick to what I know best, as well as sticking to those people I know best. This may sound a little random, but it’s pretty unique in relation to how I see us growing The Rockstar Foundation [http://therockstarfoundation.com] & turning it into
The video from the “The Designer Startup” talk at DIBI in April. (Slides here.) [http://adiirockstar.com/post/568522065/above-is-one-of-my-slides-from-my-talk-titled-the]
Towards the end of 2009, I founded a charity to fund the education of exceptionally talented, but disadvantaged, girls in South Africa and in the months since then, we’ve done a lot of work in getting our structures in place to ensure that our first 2 girls are flourishing
Based on this question [http://adiirockstar.com/post/634477020/i-have-wondered-if-you-started-over-today-starting-up] about going back & changing decisions we made at WooThemes; is there anything that you would want to change with your startup / business if you had the opportunity to do it over again? Any regrets?
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
If these guys don’t rely on banking fees to make money, I’m *really* curious to see their revenue model.
Here are my slides from my talk - Lessons Learnt from WooThemes [http://www.slideshare.net/adii/lessons-learnt-from-woothemes] - at NetProphet [http://www.netprophet.org.za/] yesterday. If you’re not intrigued enough to view the slides yet, have a look at these compliments that I got via Twitter yesterday…