We are beginning 2021, and the COVID-19 pandemic is still going strong. Are you working from the comfort and safety of your home? or has your employer stated you had to go back into the office? With COVID-19 not exactly slowing down or becoming redundant, employees are often reluctant to go back to the office…
Boom! Did that get your attention? Trend spotting Innovation It’s time for a bit of a ramble. A trend I keep noticing. The fortune 1000 are up to some interesting tricks of as late- staged innovation acquisition is one of them thats becoming more and more prevalent. What’s that mean exactly? First I love the…
Signal Scene Contact is a fantastic movie but its also one my favorites when I think of “startup moments” that twinge in your gut, the rush of seeing something you think and know is true, its like a defining moment in your leap into next and you’re really just addicted to those moments. Its all…
Zen, you’ve heard the word. How the hell do we get zen in this mad mad world? Its like the question everyone who’s building next wonders between the gazillion emails, slack posts, tweets, linkedin checkins, instagram posts, snappies, selfies, podcast rotations, youtube fail video relations and oh yeah made a bit of code to do…
Startups are ridiculously hard. When you work on as many startups as we do here at Big Kitty, you start to develop a kind of sense of things. You understand complexity on a whole new level- not just in technology but in people, and how they have to endure the unknown with a kind of…
No. You need two things typically but today I guess I’d add one more thing. And these are all either or aspects. You have money. Your product made money- that seems like a win at first but its not. It has to reveal how you made money and often raises more questions that can actually…
Self delusion, however this is one of your greatest powers. But you can be self absorbed into your own delusion of how something should or could work. Now i’ve done this myself but when i do this, i treat the whole concept as an experiment lowering the expectations and the guilt load of how the…
Technology is at a turning point- we’re on the edge of next and what is about to unfold will effect everyone. We’re entering the age of Consenting Technology. It started with Subscription Based Living- think about it- how many things do you subscribe to- that define you.