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March 26, 2023
Raising a seed investment round for my new startup
Today I announced that I’m looking to raise a small investment round to work on a new app to help companies create and roll out Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) using the power of AI. The app is called Jessop, I’ve already started working on it and I’m excited to bring it to life. I’ve put […]
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Back to Square One: The Relentless Ups and Downs of My Entrepreneurial Journey
This post was written entirely by GPT4 with one prompt and copied and pasted here unedited. For more experiments like this, jump on my weekly email. I’ve included the prompt at the end of the article. The startup I’m working on is called Jessop, check it out here if you are interested in investing. Back […]
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March 22, 2023
6 More things I Got Wrong About Content Marketing in my 2015 Book Content Machine
Last week I attended the Content Summit in Brisbane to speak on a panel and that led me to reflecting on how many things I got wrong about Content Marketing in my 2015 Book Content Machine. After sending the post to my weekly email list (subscribe here), I had a few people reply wondering what […]
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March 19, 2023
Results of my startup customer research survey for the Brewery SOP tool
Recently I found myself with the opportunity to work full time on something new and I began exploring some business needs around Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Having started and managed a brewery for 5 years, I know full well the challenges in having a workforce trained up and compliant while dealing with all of the […]
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March 16, 2023
5 things I got wrong about Content Marketing in my 2015 Book Content Machine
This week I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel at the Content Marketing Summit in Brisbane. It was the first live event I’ve done for a very long time, so I was pretty nervous but it was fun and it gave me a chance to re-examine my thoughts on Content Marketing, 7 years […]
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March 13, 2023
Is startup validation bullshit?
In 2013 I wrote an article called ‘Is startup validation bullshit?’. It was the most popular post I had written at the time and it led to me writing my first book The 7 Day Startup. Since my blog at the time (WP Curve) has been taken down, I found it on archive.org and re-produced […]
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My Startup Customer Research Survey
In March 2023 I started considering creating a tool to help physical businesses like breweries with managing the creation and rollout of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). To kick things off I put together a quick survey to help me understand how they are currently managing SOPs (link here, open till Friday 17 March). Once the […]
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March 12, 2023
Standard Operating Procedures Survey
Hey there, I’m hoping you can help with something. I’m considering creating a tool to help companies who hire non digital roles with managing the creation and rollout of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). To kick things off I’ve put together a quick survey to help me understand how they are currently managing SOPs. The initial […]
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October 31, 2021
15 Lessons – #11 – Success ingredients: Timing, Luck, Execution, Ideas, Hustle
In 2014 when I published my first book The 7 Day Startup, the prevailing school of thought in entrepreneurship was ‘Ideas don’t matter, execution matters’. I’m not exactly sure why, I think it might have a lot to do with the fact that ideas are impossible to sell but ‘hustle’ and ‘execution’ is an easy […]
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September 5, 2021
15 Lessons – #12 – There is no blueprint
This article is part of the series: 15 business lessons in 15 Years. So far we’ve had: #13 – Don’t operate on assumptions #14 – Value comes from assets not profit #15 – Don’t take advice from anyone Over 15 years of being in business and many more of being interested in business advice, there […]
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