[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false]You may already know, dear reader, that I have been smitten by the bug that is golf, yet my golf has never been all that great. I still spend most Sunday afternoons traversing the opposite fairway roughs of ‘Royal Wembley’ golf course as I zigzag my way twixt tee to green. They say...Read More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3hi0V13oag&w=590&h=332] Watch the Brian Solis video – go on, it’s only 11 minutes, and he is an entertaining presenter. It’s OK, I can wait til you have finished. I’ll just quietly hum to myself, ho hum, hum, hum… ~~~ 11 minutes passes ~~~ Good wasn’t it? I enjoyed Brian’s beginning with the subtle mickey...Read More
This weekend I have spent hours with some inspirational ‘can do’ guys and gals and came away awe-inspired. From 100 attendees on Friday night came 45 one-minute pitches and then over the next 2 days 14 teams were formed that worked flat out. The team I ‘mentored’ this afternoon (I did nothing, they were very...Read More
Logic is the study of reasoning, whether it is good reasoning or bad. There is a fallacious argument that goes “If many believe it, it must be so”, or argumentum ad populum. Much that it is tempting to go along with prevailing belief, what the masses agree with, if you do not ‘think different’ (to...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false]Is Perth a good place for startups? The jury’s out on this one, with some folks at the recent StartUp Weekend launch saying “absolutely” and yet others decrying Perth’s lack of funding and big win examples. It’s certainly true that there are some cool start ups here in WA, with Discovr being a very...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false]Despite the lofty title, dear reader, this post is nothing about “the environment”, but is in fact about the environment. Sorry, a puzzling beginning, I grant you, but stick with me. One of the best things I read on the MBA program, all those years ago, was Amir Bhide’s ‘Bootstrap Finance‘ paper, which...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false]George Orwell once said you deserve the face you have when you are fifty. The ironic thing of course is that George only lived to 48. Well, so far, I have outlived him by a year, and as I enter my fiftieth year (can’t quite believe that) it makes one ponder, dear reader....Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false] It’s a big week in the Gunningham family. Tomorrow my mother in law turns 70 & my niece turns 21. On Monday Lisa/I celebrate our 18th wedding anniversay, then 3 days later Lisa has her birthday, then 3 days later so do I. In between a sister in law has a birthday and...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false] The Internet is not free. Not only is this a truism, it is in fact a good thing. If an ebusiness (any business) is to last, it has to create value, and if it creates value, people will pay for that value. Deliver this value in a profitable manner, and you are...Read More
[tweetmeme source=”ChazGunningham” only_single=false] Think back to the many Olympics opening ceremonies of yore, rows upon countless rows of multi coloured gymnasts or drum beaters metronomically organised. Hours of precision boredom, oh yes, all very good, but where’s the soul, where’s the heart? The coup de grace came in Beijing 2008 where a cute girl was...Read More
