Notes on Angel Investing: Part One
Angel investing: is putting money in the earliest investment rounds of a private business with the goal of getting more money than you put in. the businesses are usually less than 3 years old, little to no ‘traction’ and are still finding product/market fit. “Angels”…
How To Respond To ‘No’ and Seize The Future
Thanks to Christopher Lam, for this article I think the way that you respond to rejections, obstacles and failure says a lot about an individual. Do you persevere and fight back? Or do you alter the course? Peter Thiel found himself in a similar scenario after…
Networking, not degrees.
Thanks to Christopher Lam, for this article. There is a saying that ‘a degree only gets you an interview, not a job’. In part, this is why forming social networks are a key aspect in find new career opportunities and information. Like entrepreneurs who are…
Growth Hacking Mad Paws
Article written by Christopher Lam Leveraging clever growth hacking tactics, Mad Paws, expanded across all Australian cities in its first 30 days, signing up tens of thousands of users per week on $0 marketing spend. This is the story of the first 8 months at…
How to Minimize Regret over Life Decisions
Image: Jeff Bezos was a master at regret minimization “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.” In computer science, the terms exploration and exploitation mean something else entirely. Exploration is gathering information, and exploitation is using the information you have to…
Michael Siebel – Building Product
Thanks to Christopher Lam, for this post he posted on medium which he so kindly let me repost for him on this site. You can see the original post here. Notes on Michael Siebel about Building Product in YC Startup School. I am participating in this…
My February Reading
I managed to get through 3 books this month! Another thanks to my long commute time for giving me the opportunity to read. Here are the books I got through in February. Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz – Part of the lean…
My January Reading
One of my new year’s resolution was to read a book a fortnight. I managed to get through 4 books this month! This is thanks largely to my long commute time in the morning (an hour +). Here are the books I got through in…
Attending Sydney’s StartCon 2018 – Part 2
StartCon is great for networking and meeting everyone in the tech community. In Sydney, the startup community is much smaller than in San Francisco, so you’ll most likely bump into someone you know. For me, I regularly attend meetups on a weekly basis, so it…
Attending Sydney’s StartCon 2018 – Part 1
StartCon is Sydney’s (perhaps Australia’s) largest growth and startup conference. The event is held at Randwick Racecourse, which is the same venue as last year and the year before. It is held on the 30th of November and 1st of December, StartCon operates under Freelancer…
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