You know how I’m Dan’s number 1 fanboy, right? In fact, if I’m not driving in Scotland right now I’m probabyl reading the book that these data come from. As ever, it’s amazing. Watch and love it. There’s no way this can’t improve your money magic. Amusing question of the day: Do you think...
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I know you either have or want to have your own e-business. This isn’t anything magical, it’s demographic. The majority of people in developed economies do. Bearing that in mind, here’s some unorthodox business advice. It’s a compilation of advice articles from the world of VC-funded start-ups. Not relevant to you, you think? Sure,...
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Last night was spent catching up with a journalist friend who is rather involved in the whole UKUncut movement. We were joking about how neither of us expected the End of Days to be quite so entertaining. Now, that’s being a bit glib but there is no avoiding the terrifying dark side of those...
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In one of my first ever sales jobs, my boss told me there are two types of sales people: hunters and farmers. Hunters went out and got new business -big flashy deals- while farmers got under the skin of existing clients and extracted year-on-year growth from their spend. Both have different probability spreads and...
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Adama (senior) says a number of times during Battlestar Galactica “sometimes you gotta roll the hard six.” Most of the time, however, you don’t. Most of the time, the 5/6 chance will do just fine. Because unless your race is battling for survival against an unlimited supply of killer robots you were foolish enough...
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You know why New Years resolutions fail? Because they are made while stubbing out a cigarette in what you really hope is a pile of your own vomit seeing as you just fell in it while trying to retrieve your phone from the toilet in order to check how long it is till midnight....
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Archaeologists like buried treasure almost as much as pirates do. Here’s why: Buried treasure indicates economic disruption. People -families- clearly had to flee for their lives and the fact that the treasure remained buried unil it was found again in the modern era probably means they fled unsuccessfully. Otherwise why didn’t they come back...
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It is possible that I am giving you the impression that my family is some kind of mini-Antipodean-Illuminati but my brother has just spent the last four days in the hallway of a hospital in rural Malaysia, dropping in and out of consciousness from a bout of severe meningitis. His insurance company has finally...
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Part of my radio silence looks suspiciously Mercurial. And maybe it is. Because I am pretty sure these things are: Dreadful ad campaign results. (Do NOT run test campaigns when Mercury is retrograde.) The complete inability to get a hold of clients and get them to sign their contracts. (Mercury retrograde, mixed with a...
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A dear school friend accompanied me on my recent trip to Nottingham. Through a series of ‘random’ coincidences, he has ended up as the general manager of a large event construction business within three years of graduating from university. On the other side of the world. Over five to six hundred beers in the...
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