Burnt child dreads the fire

on Apr 06, 2010
Riffing off of my last post about Morten Lund, just today, my coach Anders sent me a link to this video featuring self-made billionaire Art Williams saying “Just do it” about 15 times in a short speec…
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Often wrong, never in doubt

on Apr 06, 2010
About two weeks ago I was watching as my friend Thomas Madsen-Mygdal interviewed famous Danish Skype-investor Morten Lund. I don’t know Morten very well, and there were several interesting facts that …
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The week everything changed

on Mar 17, 2010
[Disclaimer: This is going to get sentimental. Very. If you can’t handle that, skip this post. You won’t enjoy it. I promise. You have been warned.]

All my life, I’ve struggled to integrate two parts w…
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... and our precious profits

on Mar 15, 2010
... and our precious profits


Why is the language on these things always so stuffy? Seriously, we all know what's going on here.

Yes, conserving a little water and soap and electricity is a good thing f…
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What I claim is this

on Mar 12, 2010
You can build a business primarily from the “room of love” or primarily from the “room of fear”.

Take Zappos as an example of a business built from love, and Microsoft as an example of a business built…
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What fear is and isn't

on Mar 12, 2010
I know someone’s going to raise this point, so let me just get it out of the way right now.

When I talk about the room of fear and the room of love, there’s always someone out there who’s going to say …
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Two years ago

on Mar 12, 2010
It was the end of february two years ago, we’d just bought a new house, my sole client at the time (note to self: never have one of anything in business) had ditched me and outsourced my work to India…
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Entrepreneurship from within

on Mar 12, 2010
Let me try and explain, as clearly as I can, what I’ve set out to do.

I’ve seen a great number of startup ideas - and contributed a fair share of by own - that are plain uninteresting. Boring. Too smal…
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