Theodore Roosevelt once said ‘It’s not the critic that counts.’ It is part of a longer text which is worth a read for anyone who’s striving to do anything of merit in the world (included in full at the bottom). Some people say that Teddy wrote it as a ‘comments guideline’ …

There are few things in life as rewarding as creating a business out of nothing. If you have any love of enterprise, it is hard not to be enamored with the excitement around tech startups. It would be nice to see a few more startups stick around, so here are …

Magic has always fascinated me. As a kid, there was the sense of awe and wonder – and the desire to do the impossible. Then as an adult, even though it’s much less cool and sometimes downright cheesy, I have to sheepishly admit I’m still fascinated by it. It’s not …

Do you spend too much time trying to figure out how to get new customers through the door? If you’re anything like most business owners we work with on a daily basis, and statistically you are, then it is the number one thing that permeates your thoughts and your actions. …

“And that is how we’re going to get to $25 million in revenue within 18 months!” I bit my lip and scratched my head. Sitting opposite me was a small business owner with over 10 years experience in his industry. By all outward appearances he seemed to know what he …

Now is not the perfect time to read this. In fact it is easy to say that there is no such thing as a ‘perfect time’, but in talking with many successful business owners, the ‘perfect time’ has become something that fascinates me. It actually seems that there are two perfect times …

When you first start pitching your business idea to the world, there is no worse feeling than someone telling you they don’t think it will work. Since that is your deepest fear, when someone articulates it, as someone invariably will, it will rip to your very core. It happened a …

I’m always intrigued when I meet successful people, entrepreneurs or otherwise, to understand their fitness habits. Over time this has led me to identify three different types of fitness activities that serve three very different but important functions to an entrepreneur. Before I jump into those, let me preface this …

Getting media coverage is great, but as they say in the UK, “Today’s press is tomorrow’s chip paper.” Okay, so maybe digital chip paper lasts longer than its tree-based competitor, but it is still worth making the most of it when you get it. I don’t claim to be an expert in …

Singapore, the world’s 3rd most popular destination for digital business, is a mecca for co-working spaces. With remote workers and outsourcing on the rise, location-independent professionals are increasingly choosing to work in these shared spaces. Spaces like Singapore’s Collective Works, The Hub, or more than a dozen others with their …