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ZipFail
#protip – never rent a ZipCar unless you know exactly where it is located. As in you’ve eyeballed the spot and the car yourself BEFORE you book it. Am spending the day down in Palo Alto today, and had...
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Bubbles & Tectonics
My reason for moving San Francisco almost three weeks ago was to pursue investment for AffinityLive, and with that money grow the R&D team in Wollongong as well as establish a sales and marketing...
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E-3 Visa for Australians – How To
About two months ago I moved to Silicon Valley from my home town of Wollongong in Australia. While the process of moving was fraught with a lot of personal logistical issues, the act of getting to the...
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Moving web hosts, from the frying pan, into the Arvixe fire
A few weeks ago, I finally bit the bullet and moved our AffinityLive.com marketing website to a US hosting provider. There were lots of reasons for making the move, not the least of which is that more...
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Stop puffing out your chest
Eric Ries, the author of “The Lean Startup”, defines a startup as “a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”. Implicitly, a startup...
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Easier to be the Drill Instructor
When I was 14, I joined the Junior Air Force in Australia, known as the Air Cadets. The first night I went along, I saw them marching around and calling orders and having their uniforms inspected. As...
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Why Freemium Fails for Business Sales
I spent a few hours yesterday afternoon with the 2012 class of StartMate companies in our Sydney incubator. As someone who’s spent their career working in business to business technology, I was excited...
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How to save $100/month on your cell bill (go prepaid)
Brian Chen writes today in the NY Times about much cheaper it is to be on prepaid here in the US than go onto a post-paid plan. He lays out the numbers starkly: The iPhone with a two-year contract on...
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Exclusive private beta invite & request for feedback
Note: my personal blog doesn’t get a whole lot of traffic, so I’m trying an experiment. If you’re here and reading this, you’re a friend and I’d love your feedback and opinion on something. So, while...
View ArticleWFT America?!?
How is it that the world’s most prominent democracy is so incredibly bad at being, well, a democracy? 8 years ago I looked on from Australia in shock with the rest of the world as America re-elected...
View ArticleDeception & Denial – Commercial Aviation’s Two Worst Habits
I’m currently sitting in the transit area at Auckland airport, having missed a connecting flight that would have had me home by now. Instead, I’m left reflecting on how broken commercial aviation’s...
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