2009–2026
1,367 posts
2026 19
August 2026
July 2026
- ChatGPT won’t take your job, the robots will
- The Bubble we had to have
- The one skill kids need right now
June 2026
- The AI Mini Me
- Google does a 2 for 1
- Can Capitalists Believe in a Wealth Tax?
- From Search Engine to Answer Machine
May 2026
- How to think like a Futurist
- Bullshit Jobs Meet Better Machines
- The 7 Mega Trends of the Sovereign Era
- The Coming Prediction Addiction
April 2026
March 2026
February 2026
2025 27
December 2025
November 2025
- A New Era: Tech That Builds Middle Classes, Not Addiction Loops
- AI Just Rewrote the Advertising Playbook
- The most important thing about your Robot
October 2025
- Why Agentic AI still needs a Pilot
- What Is the Most Profitable Strategy of All Time?
- From the Born to the Made
- Proof AI Won’t Kill Creativity
- What’s in the Museum of the Future?
- The AI Sovereignty Gap
- Income ≠ Value: The Tax Revolution the World Needs
August 2025
- From Streetlights to Street-Bots
- The AI Apocalypse You Shouldn’t Fear (and the One You Should)
- The Robot I Just Bought Will Replace a Plumber
- AI – The Ultimate Human Selfie
July 2025
- AI Replaced a Job… That Never Would’ve Existed
- I Asked AI How It Would Remove Humans. Here’s What It Said…
- AI – How will we know when it’s sentient?
- So what’s next after AI?
May 2025
April 2025
March 2025
January 2025
2024 11
October 2024
- AI Girlfriends – A social disaster in the making
- How AI will redefine Energy
- Could A.I. Kill the Internet?
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
2023 28
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
- The Age of Viral Finance
- Your Own Personal Jarvis
- AI Generated Entertainment
- A.I.’s Window of Opportunity
- AI is Redefining Real
February 2023
January 2023
2022 17
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
2021 18
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
2020 36
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
- 2 Things Relationships Are Built On
- Five Years From Now
- How to sell ideas
- Three Skills Your Future Depends On
- Graduate to Greatness
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
- Dealing With Uncertainty – COVID-19 series
- Talent Matters – COVID-19 series
- Inventing Tomorrow’s Jobs – COVID-19 series
- Choose your own Adventure #2 – COVID-19 series
June 2020
- Mega Trends – COVID-19 series
- The Currency of Language – COVID-19 series
- Houses of the Future – COVID-19 series
May 2020
- Perception and Your Career – COVID-19 series
- What the Fork? Strategy for 2020 – COVID-19 series
- Commercialising the Afterlife – COVID-19 series
- Escaping the Cubicle Farm – COVID-19 series
- Globalisation vs Nationalism – COVID-19 series
April 2020
- Surveillance in our Schools – COVID-19 series
- Post Covid Possibilities – COVID-19 series
- Climate vs Coronavirus – COVID-19 series
- Under the Skin Surveillance – COVID-19 series
- Choose your own Adventure – COVID-19 series
- The Business of Biomimicry – CODVID-19 series
March 2020
- Securing the Supply Chain – COVID-19 series
- Definitions During a Crisis – COVID-19 series
- Privacy as a Luxury
- The Economics of Health
- How to make the Gig Economy ‘Work’
February 2020
2019 35
December 2019
November 2019
- The Biggest Tech Trend for 2020
- Why No One Cares About Data Hacks
- Trickery as a Business Model – Rental Cars
October 2019
- Zero External Energy Buildings
- We Need a New Mailroom
- You’re the Movie Star Now
- Giving Birth to Digital Twins
September 2019
August 2019
- Disruption and The Shampoo Strategy
- The problem with corporate climbing
- Never grow your vegetables in someone else’s garden
- Do this before you launch a startup
- The next phase of innovation
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
- The Gap in the TV Market in Australia
- Food, Data and Modernity
- The Other 1 Percent
- The Secret Innovation Budget
February 2019
January 2019
2018 37
December 2018
- My Top 10 for 2018
- The weird world of people as brands
- The last 10 steps
- The Exits Lounge
- We’re the ghost in the machine
November 2018
- The Age of Digital Colonialism
- What to teach your kids (& yourself) – My TED talk
- The Technology Wildfire
- Our careers as projecteers
- Why reaction videos matter
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
- Can entrepreneurs live inside corporations?
- Why utilities need to be back in public hands
- Content & distribution always beats resolution
- What data and fences have in common
- How to invest in technology
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
- What unions should do to survive the future
- Our future depends on showing up
- Why E-Sports might just help your career
April 2018
- Why we need to rebuild the internet
- Why the book is always better than the movie
- Here comes the Lab Burger
March 2018
January 2018
2017 28
November 2017
October 2017
- The NBN is bigger than the internet as we know it
- Why other industries need to call out Facebook’s advertising policy
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
- The inevitable merger of our species with machines
- Expertise during a data explosion
- The one word that ties this revolution all together
- Why I choose people over profit
- Why machines can never replace humans
- This year the internet arrives in Australia
- Why we need to start before we finish
- Get ready for ambient computing
- Why giving leads to getting
- We’re all trapped – The dark side of the APPOCALYPSE
- Why robots should have rights
- Why you shouldn’t fear a robot version of you
- How to future proof your kids
- The Language of Innovation
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
2016 131
September 2016
August 2016
- Cars, phones and drones – where disruption comes from
- You'll never believe what these guys are really selling!
July 2016
June 2016
- The future of stealing music and everything else
- What your garage & spare room can teach you about the future
- The tradeoff Startup founders must never forget
- What do Google and George have in common?
May 2016
- This is the best efficiency hack I know
- As seen on Hacker News
- So what's after the MVP?
- Why the order of what we build matters more now
- A simple Amazon strategy every business can implement
- This will change your perception of brand loyalty forever
- Dev Diner -a radical resource
- Agile is a mindset, not just a software development method
- How to Start Small to Grow a #MASSIVE Company
- The startup toothbrush test
April 2016
- The single 'yes' startup
- Becoming massive is about thinking really small
- Is this the worst product innovation ever?
- The rise of the machines, or not.
- A business model for every startup
- What business are we really in?
- Heraclitus & startups
- The type of thinking needed in exponential times
- Do this instead of trying to keep up
- Why I'm using Snapchat
- Software is eating the world – and surfing
- The consequences of good & bad design
- A world before the World Wide Web?
- Imagine if you had all the power in the world
- A cold call is an unplanned warm call
- Orwell wasn't wrong, just early
- The fragmentation of energy
- Hello Startup
- The Paradox of Capitalism
- Low tech jobs in a high tech world
- Questions established companies must ask themselves
- When to resist technology
- What if we reversed the customer loyalty programs?
- The greatest pricing hack of all time
- Why trusting your gut, is not really a thing
- Webcams, chickens & transparency
- Learning and knowing for sure
- Tesla Model 3 & the start of the end of petrol cars
- The accidental startup
- The economic future of the Western World
- What we can learn from street hawkers
March 2016
- Why champagne is better than dog food
- It's the value we create that matters
- A little story about "A" players
- Social Media hidden truths
- The those who can and those who teach lie
- The 3 step media plan that should be at the heart of all business communications
- What high ground are you aiming for?
- The Startup Funding Hoax
- Having too many tools is the enemy
- Will this be on the test?
- What's the real objective?
- The Shampoo Startup Strategy
- The competitors you never knew you had
- This might be best packaging copy writing in history
- Advertising is tax for the boring
- How to write an epic blog post
- Why the ecosystem is more important than market share
- More proof there are many paths to the same destination
- The life success list you'll never read elsewhere
- Should you really be in charge?
- The problem with 'How To' advice
February 2016
- Why OzTam's Aust TV ratings are still way behind the times
- Why being better is not enough
- Why profits are better than wages
- Why Silicon Valley is a temporary phenomenon
- What 'with all due respect' really means.
- The secret about building a community
- How we confused the role of Government and Business
- How the music industry gamified social proof
- The best credit card hack of all time
- This single job title defines a companies downfall
- The simplest of business admin hacks
- Irrational fear and the waterfall
- Don't waste time finding the best person
- How to clarify your goals in 1 minute
- You own prime time now
- A tyre is only flat at the bottom
- Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax
- You are not stuck in traffic
- Why experiences are the new consumerism
- You should read this if you don't understand Snapchat
- Innovating too early is the same as being wrong
- Why Snapchat will replace my twitter feed
- What to do about people judging you
- What entrepreneurs can learn from my terrible cover band
- Constraints are your friend
- Your app is not an app
- Forbes ironically forgets Economics 101
- Why Twitter will die if we keep saying it
- Entrepreneurs, it's ok to copy
January 2016
- Why on line prices can mislead
- The Blue Ocean of January
- What we really hear – Above all Human
- The 2 simple questions all successful startups have answered
- Your startup is a restaurant
- The simple truth about Virtual & Augmented Reality
- Why burning the boats is terrible advice
- The simple marketing mistake that opens the door for climate change deniers
- Sneakers – The age of the global niche
- Why I already trust you
- We're the losers in the video streaming war
- Why Survivor Bias is the enemy of strategy
- Going the distance – startup style
- The games you didn't know you've been playing
- You're too early for the market – so what
- Here's the thing about push notifications
- Read this before you pick your startup launch date
- Yes, we are all in the technology business
- The simplest brand building tool of all
- Podcasts are a University on wheels
- The only way you can compete on price
- Confusing needs and wants
- The Great Fragmentation – In Chinese
- Design and destination
- The one thing you can do better than Apple
- Getting paid with Mike Monteiro
- Why working long hours is a hoax
- Read this before you accept a new job
- It's getting much quicker to fly across the globe, here's why.
- Which are you of these 2 types of startups?
- Who to believe in 2016
2015 58
December 2015
- Distribution is King-er than content
- Yes, we know Uber has no cars, but what do they really sell?
- Crazy facts from the technium to blow your mind
- The secret benefit of reading books instead of articles
- The ultimate technique to pitch anything
- Your startup needs to get punched in the face
November 2015
- The problem with Steering Committees
- Do you know what you're really selling?
- 10 public speaking hacks to do before you hit the stage
- The one thing you should take without asking in business
- The surprising price increase of Televisions
- Why predicting the future is more about sociology than technology
- The secret truth about what we wear to work
October 2015
- Why aliens have never made contact with humans
- What startups can learn from Studio 54 and the velvet rope
- How to fix traffic jams forever without spending a dollar on roads
- How a Youtube video with 566 views made more money than one with 7 million views
September 2015
- The 1 question we must ask before we ever send a business proposal
- Quiksilver – How big brands with short memories go broke
- Worried your job might disappear? This taxi driver isn't.
August 2015
- What you can learn from my terrible drum teacher
- Are you making money the cool way, or the uncool way?
- 3 reasons global adoption of bitcoin is inevitable
- Two simple ways to grow your startup
- The ultimate template for business failure
- One thing we must learn from Tinder to create a successful app
July 2015
- The best single example of how yesterday's decisions can kill a business today
- Why petrol cars will not exist in 10 years
June 2015
- Australia's top rated TV show – Do you know it?
- The hidden asset base
- Yes, the robots will take your job, but…
- The leadership secret no one ever talks about
- Twitter vs Facebook vs Linkedin – is the medium still the message?
- Design Help Needed
- One thing in tech every business or entrepreneur with global ambitions should remember
May 2015
- This is still everyone's favourite radio station
- The 2 things people who sell information for a living must remember
- Inverse goals & why you should set some
- What I always tell door to door sales people might surprise you
April 2015
- Secret life success ratio no one talks about
- Ignore what the teacher told you, and just make things up
- You don't need an investor
- How toilet paper weirdly tells a story of industrial disruption
- The best single lesson Bill Gates gave every startup & product manager
- The first question early stage startups should ask themselves
March 2015
- Learn why data matters with one simple photo
- The global content playbook & how the internet actually works
- Something I told every staff member I ever had & you should too
- You were born to pitch
- Soundbites full of goodness
- Welcome to the culture of Extremistan
February 2015
- How the technology works is irrelevant
- The culture of the power flip
- Future Lab – Q & A
- The Financial Wealth Ratio
- If you think privacy doesn't matter….
January 2015
2014 112
December 2014
- A christmas story about how technology does not change us
- So what really happened to newspapers – in data?
- Little Data – Insurance, finance and digital footprints
- How to price yourself as a freelancer
- The Uber attitude & surge pricing
- So what really happened to the music industry – in data?
- The reality of the screen
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
- Mindset & Tools
- You say 'ello', I say goodbye
- Self editing & the thought police
- Five for Friday v2
- Value transfer or value creation?
- The evolution of labour & where the rewards are heading
- Five for Friday
- Colors, Apps and Cognitive Shortcuts
- recent thoughts
- Top 10 thoughts on independent living
- 2 unrelated questions worth asking
August 2014
- What we get paid for
- How to solve the busy problem
- The average success story
- My favourite entrepreneur hacks
- How small changes in where we work can change everything
- The strategy day you've probably never had
- What you know vs Who you know
- Don't be a resume
- It's already been done, or has it?
- The tale of 2 bathrooms
- The Autonomous Corporation
- Back to anthropology
July 2014
- Guess what will be the most advanced tech device in your house in 2025?
- Why Apple and IBM's new romance proves never is a very long time
- Local get together – Book launch
- How startups can benefit from the technology paradox
- Know who will miss you & act accordingly
- Why Beacons will become the Pocket Spam of the web of things era
- How to hack your 'To Do' list
- Loving your customers – celebrity style
- Top 10 internet stocks – more than 1 trillion valuation
- Marketing genius, social pitching & worst case scenarios
June 2014
- Should we pitch first, last or in the middle?
- Practical strategies for sacking your boss
- The single truth about viral activity – It's just scenery
- Even startup culture is a just a remix
- Relearning what we already know
- A list of things large companies could do without
- Why you should love Youtube advertising & other things you hate on the internet
- We're all faking it
- The truth about the home town
- The next level in artificial intelligence is a dash of stupidity.
- The Great Fragmentation – my new book
- The Wealth Equation
- Wood chips, sugar & hazelnuts
- The most obvious startup opportunity in decades is staring us in the face
- What to do when someone falls asleep during your presentation
- False Positives
May 2014
- The competition is invisible
- Celebrity in a post mass media world
- Amazing list of psychology life hacks you can implement immediately
- The early money & the long money
- The ultimate time management lesson
- 4 mind blowing presentations on the future
- The Employee to Entrepreneur conversion
- Evolution & strategy
- Some companies are infallible, or are they?
- Top 10 vital life signs money has no impact on
- When innovation is not really innovation
- Getting media coverage for your startup
- What school forgot & the School of Life
- Philosophy > Tactics
- I'm making some terrible mistakes right now
April 2014
- Why focusing on the latest trends in Silicon Valley probably wont end up in you becoming one
- the end of Monday
- When receiving is better than giving
- Wallets & brains
- Counter intuition, deal cutting and commissions
- Web startup principals apply to every kind of new business
- The 3 directions pulling on us
- Virtual Classroom
- Don't create what you ran away from
- When something bad is good
- Forging ahead
- Clues in childhood
- Live chat today
March 2014
- Startup Honesty
- Saving your best work
- Every success is strategic
- Does the world need changed?
- Random Soundbites
- Understanding it later
- Just start working
- The successful company lie
- Trade Secrets
February 2014
- Better questions
- How a new brand can gain trust
- A bit is gold
- Do make the same mistake twice
- Old theories
- I wanted to give them my money – Vans
January 2014
2013 96
December 2013
- What I noticed in 2013
- Issues with Facebook
- Holden Market Exit – Badvertising
- Super Awesome Micro Project
- 7 simple concepts
- What business plans are for
- Simple sales hack
- Market Validation
- Escaping the Corporate Vortex
November 2013
October 2013
- The Potential Employee Flip
- Spears, Seeds & Spanners
- The Fish & Chip shop rules
- Start with fiction
- Monday is your friend
- Advice they'll never take
- Digital Intention
- The abundance crisis
- Most people I know…
- The most important choice you'll ever make
- Focus Folly
- The 2 types of reading
- #BBB Launch Shindig
- 5 things to check out
- Kodaking
September 2013
- Don't start a business
- The evolution of luxury
- Old Words, New Images
- Why me?
- Why you don't fit in at your company
- How to be a go getter
- The next 6 months of news
- We're all coders
- If vs When & Who
- Just some yellow rope
- Startup – Like it's 1999
- How to genuinely succeed by doing less
- Monday thought starters
- Beers, Blokes & Business – Podcast
- The Silk Road Patron
- The linear hoax
August 2013
- Inspiration or Knowledge?
- Scribbles from Startup Grind
- Am I a Startup? – Tomcar
- The 200 year shift
- The Moldova connection
- 10pm till 1am
July 2013
- Random Sunday night thoughts
- The perception game
- The story of ice
- Visualising the history of Honda – Radvertising
June 2013
- Yesterday
- The end of demographics
- The evolution of marketing
- Who is your competition?
- The genius equation
- Reality, Comedy & Venture Capital
May 2013
- 3D printing is nothing special
- The Zen of being underpaid
- Can I help you? Why retail customers always say no
- What to sell first
- Mobile living
- Seinfeld Today = Digital Training
- Retail Apathy: Target
- Gadget Control
April 2013
- Soundbites from the Future – 2013
- Which door to knock on
- The Intellectual Social Network
- Worlds colliding
- Passion is not enough
- Human Tracking
- Super Awesome Micro Project – Ingite Style
- Your new CV
March 2013
February 2013
- Aquisitions, speed and unplanned exits
- Don't miss this one
- A 2 way revolution
- Memorise this
- Being friends with breakfast cereal is over
- The truth about technology
- Motivation & Administration
- A story from Sir Tim
January 2013
2012 134
December 2012
- Office Culture – Coffee vs Education
- Goals and cars
- End of year lessons
- Don't get too excited
- The Open Shop
- Winning big
- Houses and technology
- Who do you serve?
November 2012
- The end of demographics
- Reinforcing decisions – Wikipedia feedback
- Great Advertising – by Wikipedia
- The new industrial revolution – Chris Anderson
- What best sellers have in common
- Building a startup team
- What matters more?
- Consumer is a dirty word
- A message for misfits
- Invention vs Innovation
- Top 10 tips to learn a language
- the big job
October 2012
- The truth about crowd funding
- TV on the slow track
- Do it when nobody is looking
- Definitive Advice
- Smart Marketing on Pinterest
- 2 types of work
- The duality
- Comedians = Entrepreneurs
- K rebz
- The 3rd phase of the web
- Omnipresent deflation & the longer tail
- Starting from
September 2012
- 20 things in 20 years
- Aziz Ansari – another digital direct disciple
- Jerry goes web first
- Negotiation and motivation
- Availability & Consumption
- Ned Needs You
August 2012
- Trends & the long tail
- The Bibliography is over
- Advocacy
- Control a channel
- Inspiring change – Superhumans
- Philosophy – Martin Potter
July 2012
- Random things
- Finding the connections
- Simple innovation & fear
- Hitting 3 out of 10
- The original pivot – Oakley
- Do you still do it?
- The truth about innovation
- The end of manuals
- It's already been done
- Mid Year Shame
June 2012
- The ultimate innovators – kids
- Look both ways
- The end of Fredrick W Taylor
- What Internet TV needs
- Re-introducing boredom
- Digital Dialects
- 3 cool videos
- What meetings can learn from parties
- The Big Shift – a business manifesto
- Stay true vs the pivot
- The age of personal branding
- The Power Flip – Update
May 2012
- Fan Culture
- Would you like some pie?
- Differentiated Intro – Casey Bennetto
- The electrician
- The truth about secrets
- What is evaporating?
- Meet Alistair
- Experience vs Youth
- How to sell a website
- The truth
- The waiting game – Eye on Australia
April 2012
- Being unscripted
- BMX Nostalgia
- The irony in business
- Meeting efficiency barometer
- The genius of Paul Graham – essays
- The wood chips
- 10 ways to significantly increase your income
- The future of television
- Tech Pop Quiz
- - Steve Sammartino
- What is possible?
- 2 boys & their dad
- Brand Play
- Risk & Conservatism
March 2012
- Entreprenuerial double dipping
- Selling – the highest paid profession
- Just make stuff
- My mum doesn't understand
- The attention economy
- The 100 year folly
- The justification of value
- the tale of 2 robots
- Our Space Project
- Brand in decline – Qantas
- Micro Project – funded via twitter
February 2012
- An 'A' or Fluency?
- Home = factory
- 10 books that helped me
- The Profit Motive
- Facebook IPO repurcussions
- Spend money on these things:
- Big think
- The Foxtel hack
- Plutocrats of the web
- New non-profit
- Kids & Design
- The marketing flip
January 2012
- The moving target & radvertising
- the 10% era
- The truth about FMCG in Australia
- Worth knowing – Code Year
- Property Investing 101
- Will you?
- I don't know
- Windows = Screens
- Why Statigram rocks
- Philosophy, Attitude & Activity
- The lifecyle of awesome
- The open API secret
- Why failure is scary
- More evidence of screen culture
- Exposing your ideas
- Thinking Digital
- Why e-Commerce is different
- Sowing & reaping
- Big business v Small business
- The truth about goal setting
2011 144
December 2011
- Simple & memorable
- How to invest $1500
- Non Products
- The future is less
- Another brand having fun – Pringle
- You meet the most interesting people on line
- The new usability experts
- Nixon – update
- Living in the past – Nixon
- Instagram is my new twitter
- Validation of Awesomeness
- Amazing Aviation Facts
- My dad's chevy
- Micro innovation – Little Printer
- Broken heart v Broken back
November 2011
- Address is approximate – Imagination is vital
- Good ideas v bad ideas
- 10 'just because' projects
- The world belongs to the discontented
- Technology spoofs
- Singing for their supper
- Human evolution and technology
- The tender folly
- What I love about gifyo.com
- Home Made Advertising
- Bloggers will love themepivot.com
- Why Foxtel is Doomed
- Startup Weekend – Melbourne
- the 2 types of investment
- 5 Startups I Can Feel
October 2011
- The Interest Graph
- Bigger than the internet – 3D Printing
- How to perform
- What to spend our money on
- They brand you
- Investing in staff
- Value creation & extraction
- What to reduce
- Trust and my dad
September 2011
- Radvertising from Calsberg
- The truth about degrees
- Pricing relativity
- The art of the future
- The Service Shift
- The system is dead
- the Collective Age
- #Stream11
- Give us a taste
August 2011
- The pie
- Have a drink on me!
- Don't do your homework
- The digital undertow
- The web is the people
- Idea or invention?
- Email from Ender
- Content vs Context
- I'm in love with Shwood
- New rules of media
- The first 10
- Open pay display
- Moving to 'open'
- 84 years, in 84 days, in 84 tweets
July 2011
- The last industrial relic
- The clock is back
- 4 reasons they will buy your startup
- Our writing really matters
- My Google Plus Problem
- Revenue Compression
- Innovation never ends
- The genius excuse
- Richard Branson – Live
- the new FMCG strategy
- Business trends in 2011
- Compound pain
- 45 seconds
- Falling in love with infrastructure
June 2011
- What we're good at
- Theatre at Transaction – Der Raum
- Pop culture knowledge
- If money didn't exist
- 60 seconds on the web
- Creative & Media agency landscape
- Change the currency
- Then & Now
- Loyalty Schemes Vs Gamification
- Bees can't fly
May 2011
- The art of pitching
- The rate of change
- The human movement, movement
- Gaming – A year in review
- Interview with Seth Godin
- What brands must do
- 2 horse race
- Old world, new world
- Carl Sagan on beauty – Quote
April 2011
- Soundbites from the future
- My family is fine, how is yours?
- Best domain of all time – www.✈.to
- 10 years in Tech
- How to make money on the internet
- Stop thinking about technology
- Digital doodles
- Websites & The Network Effect
- The truth about confidence
- 2 minutes of Screen Culture
- What comes first
- Top 10 financial hacks
- Actions & Authenticity
- Top 10 dying industries
- Good service? Prove it
March 2011
- 2 philosophies
- Screen Culture
- Why geolocating is huge
- Car smash marketing – Rebecca Black
- What FMCG marketers should do
- Invest 5 minutes in glass
- The worlds first disloyalty card
- Maxibon Manchew – Radvertising
- Good stuff is not enough
February 2011
- Component Retail
- Mission statements are terrible
- Winklevoss syndrome
- Every-preneur
- New Leadership
- We're not that unique
- Gamification is coming…
- Super Bowl Advertising – Tor Myhren
- Irreplaceable & the inconvenience scale
- The formula is love – Moby
- The office & the factory
January 2011
- 99% there
- Art & Money
- The race to the bottom
- Words & money
- Bill vs Gerry
- Entropy & business
- Famous to the family
- Brands that have fun – Toyota Prius
- It's just the evolution of language
- One Downsmanship – John's phone
- A pharmaceutical mashup – Vitamints
- Obey your hunch – Leo Burnett
- The wealth misconception
- What drives people
2010 182
December 2010
- 4 factors for webpreneurs – Guest Post
- An advertising lullaby
- Simultaneous radness
- What's your media philosophy?
- Youtube rewind 2010
- Year in review – Google Style
- The end of the Wild Wild West? (www)
November 2010
- The truth about small fish
- The infrastructure disadvantage
- Visual Orgy – Retail
- The great price divide
- Satisfaction is not enough
- Brand voices are now a collective
- We don't have to create
- Decalology
- A Collaboration Conversation
- A Tiny Twist
- Screen Culture
- Email is a not a compass
- Andy Irons – life is short
- Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia
- Do you believe?
October 2010
- Top 10 things more valuable than post graduate studies
- How to monetize
- The authentic phone message challenge
- Cool hunting – The tail of two movies
- Helping your community
- Tweet worth sharing
- 100,000 eyeballs for $8
- Click Z column
- Top 10 list – Words redefining business
- Promote yourself
September 2010
- Imaginative work
- What we follow – AFL
- Solid advice
- Bootstrappers Research
- How to handle 'too expensive'
- Kulula Air – Eyeball worthy
- Blogs are a stadium
- Advertising & entrepreneurs
- Be part of something
- the non tech advantage
- Why junk mail matters
- Losing touch
August 2010
- Earning the right
- Will they find us?
- Startup typologies
- I don't…
- How to decide
- The art of iteration – coffee
- Amazing eco system
- Worldometers are great
- Friends, fans and followers
- The game has just begun
- How to launch
- The great media rumble
- More Badvertising from Cadbury
- Get in quick
- The tale of two offices
- When we get big
- New on line supermarket
- Old Spice: Campaign of the decade?
July 2010
- The multi tasking hoax
- Pixel, passion, prizes, pictures.
- Why Masterchef works
- Bratz dolls & stealing ideas
- Alternate words
- Grandparents circa 2010
- Snails
- Johnny Walker brand story
- Subvert
- Brain clutter
- Media Exponential
- TED talks – What the world needs
- You’re already an expert!
- Seagull Management
- Taking over
- Wasting money
- Reasons for running a startup
- How to win a debate
- 6 things I learned in 2 years
June 2010
- And now it’s in print
- Revolutions and pleasure
- Retail startups are rad
- Unsynergy
- Kevin Rudd & getting stuff done
- Startup School… tweetstream
- Mixing it up
- How hard you worked is irrelevant
- How to pitch
- Why spreadsheets are the enemy
- Hand write it
- The supermarket…
- Entrepreneurship is in our DNA
- The truth about digital offshoring
- The real cost of meetings
- Rebranding – how not to do it
- It’s our audience, not a target
- 2 assets for entrepreneurs
- How not to run a promotion – the Chef’s Hat
- Design Idea
- How to build a community
May 2010
- Burn the segments
- The Jesus moment
- Know what you’re selling
- The one word
- Stay the course
- How to win new business
- Words make a comeback
- Don’t be boring
- Testing 1,2,3
- The law of focus
- The internet lives in Dog years
- My new project
- the cool thing about blogging
- Top 7 startup tips
- The truth about mentoring
April 2010
- Return on effort
- Share the process
- Our audience
- Everyone cares
- Salvage Bazaar
- New Auto Resume Service
- The non-web side of web businesses
- Great bootstrapping
- Economic irrationalist
- Web everywhere
- Launch choices
- Convention busting – retail
- Self taught
- How to run a corporate Twitter account
- Feed your conscience
- Brand Trust
- Inside the minds of others
- Startup School Melbourne – 3 seats left.
March 2010
- Originality is for artists
- Fail with pride
- Expertise is hands on
- You can’t control social media
- Greenpeace vs Kitkat
- Google overtaken by Facebook? Not really.
- Radvertising – Pedigree
- Startups and Standups
- Everything to everyone
- When technology makes you obsolete
- In order of preference
- Digital footprints
- Can boring brands create word of mouth?
- Brand names are worthless
- The boot leather strategy
- Selling a vision
February 2010
- Stripped back
- life in boxes
- Why scoreboards matter
- Perishable goods & websites
- New vs Familiar
- What to change
- Web Success = Populate & Promote
- The Thomas Edison Strategy
- When to quit
- ABC 7.30 report – Virtual Offices
- We only have one
January 2010
- Good Guys, Smart Guys
- Nice idea, but what’s in it for us?
- Overcoming fear
- Customer empathy
- Borderless Venture Capital
- New start up
- Startup Idea Generation
- Pro Bono marketing
- Crowd sourced blog entry ideas
- Strategy review
- A great moment in advertising
- Reason enough
- 5 things worth doing
- Confused
- How to make your business appear smaller
- Quote about design: Steve Jobs
- Brand definition
- What they don’t tell you
- The white collar underclass
- You’re in good company
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December 2009
- Super insights
- beware of averages
- Be needed
- Coffee isn’t coffee
- Pricing & relativity
- Your friends & family don’t care
- The art of innovation leadership
- Startup equation
- Incentives
- Ben & Jerry’s nice quotes
- The best business phrase ever – update
- they will find you
- The gamer changer
- Old world & customised – Rubble
- How to price your product
November 2009
- Crazy idea
- Q & A – New Media and Small Business
- Don’t take any advice
- What Docklands should do
- Simple startup advice – Ben & Jerry’s
- The end of television
- Heavy quote
- Develop a manifesto
- Who is the worlds greatest entrepreneur?
- Startup Survival
- If you can type, you can make movies
- My new startup
- Run an event
- Outsourcing – little tips
- The white collar reality
- Building your personal brand
- Update: Viral marketing – literally
- Feature Creep
- Startup School Testimonials
- International team & Time zone issue
- Startups & husband / wife teams
- Building a web community
- Notes Page – Make it rad
- Great learning environment
- Instructions included
- Startup School – 1 seat left
- We all fall – only some get straight up
October 2009
- Twitter Lists – inauthentic
- Thought for the day
- Startup Blog live tonight.
- Unexpectedly Awesome – BBC
- Quirky Fact & Business models
- Solid advice – David Clarke, Webjet founder
- Seek.com.au – Trolley Radvertising
- Viral marketing & probability
- Guest Post at Pollenizer
- Don’t be this person.
- Short memory – GFC
- The most important startup
- Broken car = broken life
- Startup negotiating tactic
- Production values matter
- 2 schools of business valuation
- Startup School – update
- Why iterations matter
- Decision intertia
- Timing vs Time in
- Corporate Escape Artist – Jake Lodwick channeling
- Twitter rules
- the 5% rule
September 2009
- Kraft needs lesson in ‘Crowd Sourcing’
- Risk Taking
- Web Business Valuation 101
- Unlearning & decorporatisation of self
- Selling – breaking down barriers
- Why cash flow matters
- Micro Fame
- Startup School
- We need each other
- Best practice market research for startups
- Irrational Complexity
- What Entrepreneurs can learn from Science
- Niche Marketing & Startups
- How to be remarkable – Mr Price
- most important thing of all…
- Espousing others
- The deception of history
- Inventing Demand
- Usability defined
- Startup Blog Live – episode 4 (Update)
- Quote from Warren Buffett
August 2009
- The importance of health
- Transaction Friction
- Retire young?
- David Elsewhere – 20 years in the making
- Thought starter
- Collective Intelligence
- Office Blind
- Selling Potatoes
- Insights for Entreprenuers
- Quote of the Year
- The paradox of leadership
- Creative Espresso – Corporate Haze
- Traffic Directors
- Marc Andreessen – The story of the snakes
- Incentives
- Brain exercise
- Startup Blog Live – episode 3
- Tactics vs strategy
- Yes or No?
- The AFL Gestapo
- Social media – Numbers are irrelevant
- Domain name speculating
- Industrial Tourism
July 2009
- Death of a salesman
- Delayed Revenue Model vs Free (DRM)
- How to make a sales call
- Business Plan Template
- Best in the world (How to be)
- Difference between traditional & social media
- Start Up Blog live v2.0
- The truth about viral marketing
- The power of templates
- Shiny new business
- Startup Blog Live
- Invested customers
- Trim the ‘to do’ list
- Door knocking – Duncan Bannatyne
- Entrepreneurs must change
- New distribution points
- Talk to your customers
- 8 years in the making – Mark Webber
- Idea vs Execution
- VB Regulars – new TVC is Radvertising
- Communication segmentation
- Business pulse
- How to get investors interested
- Come work with us – rentoid.com HQ
- Spoof advertising – Campbells
- Creativity wins
- Free – is not a business model
- Deus Ex Machina
June 2009
- Path to startup success
- Direction evidence
- Consumer language & leadership
- Startup steps – brief post
- Web Economic Models
- Don’t wait to know it all
- Startup philosophy
- The Long Haul
- Boring and Stealth
- Boring is profitable
- Community overload
- 10 steps to web start up
- Startup blog rant
May 2009
- Threadless – quotes from Ross Zietz
- the power of doing
- the vital ingredient
- Validation
- Act as if
- Your phone number
- A real bootstrapper – literally
- What to change
- Irony 2
- Planning your day
- Value & people
- Business Pitch
- Start this file
- Startup tip
- Know what to do
- Word power
- User friendly – Self Check
- How to generate media for your startup
- The nature of deadlines
- Creating rituals
- The web is Punk.
April 2009
- Mistakes are awesome
- Response to Quiksilver Diworsification
- Diworsification of the year – Quiksilver
- Radvertising – Honda Insight
- Quit your job
- 5 things about startup blog
- Radvertising by Nike
- Great advice for web startups
- Magnation – great battle story
- The strategy is fine
- the instant reward society
- Set up costs
- The urgent & the important
- Why speed wins
- You can change
- Radvertising for rentoid
- Startups in 13 sentences
- When seeking investors
- Guinness does James Boag
- Best Packaging Ever
- Southwest Airlines – customer service
- Creating Brand Loyalty
- Entrepreneurial Chat
March 2009
- People & Compound Damage
- Mind your language – Hyperbole
- Digital Footprints – the power of
- Don’t be shit
- Radvertising – James Boag
- The Feedback Trap
- Humans aren’t resources
- 1 versus millions
- Digital Mentors
- No 1 reason being an employee sucks
- Entrepreneurship vs Investing
- Zero Cost Advertising & Social Media
- How to advertise for free
- Great work from Craig
- New York Series – Coke is ‘not’ it
- New York Series: Magnolia Bakery – In content is rad.
February 2009
- New York Series: Contingency Plans
- New York Series: I like Dogmatic
- Tom & Trent do rentoid
- New York Series: ‘Food Porn’ from Dean & Deluca
- New York Series: Barbie Celebrating in Style
- New York Series: Bloomingdales – You’re Welcome, really.
- New York Series: Interesting Promotion
- New York Series: the FAO Shwarz Toy Store Greeter
- New York Series: Naming a Brand
- New York Series: Nice copy writing
- New York Series: idea from Starbucks
- New York Series: NBC ‘Scareface’ & UGC
- New York Series: Dylan’s Candy Bar
- New York Series: So much advertising
- Dubai Series: Emirates awesome user interface
- Dubai Series: Entrepreneurial thought experiment
- Dubai Series: You snooze, you ‘win’
- Dubai Series: Sugar Daddy’s
- Dubai Series: From Chrysler ‘A Space’
January 2009
- Dubai series: Hijack Advertising
- Dubai Series: Business trip tips
- Dubai Series: Hotel Sampling
- New York Series (& Dubai…)
- Idea Borrowing
- Shifting advantage & contrarian actions
- Reverse
- We are born
- In order of preference
- Digital project list
- The Big Win
- World of Venn
- Entertainment is not Advertising
- Quirky facts & contingency plans
- The Apple, the Orange & Weaknesses
- The 55 cent courier
- Planning – Make it fun
- Arrogance = your opportunity
- People
- Radvertising – Heineken ‘again’
- Competitors
- This is awesome…
- Make your sentences short
- Goals review
- iphone apps & mini-preneurs