This week I caught up with Robert Castaneda, founder of CustomWare Asia Pacific, for an interview. Robert started CustomWare in July 2001, just before he left university. Eight years later the company has over 70 staff, offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Wellington and revenue of around $8 million. He lives in Menlo [...]
Profile on Mark Zuckerberg
“The biggest risk you can take is to take no risk” – Mark Zuckerberg
To be classified as one of the world’s most influential people at the age of 24 is quite an achievement. Most people of that age are still trying to formulate their ultimate direction in life, let alone have achieved what the vast [...]
Protect Yourself When Writing References
There was a time when human interaction seemed to be a lot simpler, when we were able to pass our opinions back and forth and consummate agreements on a handshake, without fear of any protracted legal ramifications. Those days are long gone and when you are in business of any kind you need to be [...]
What is your favorite WordPress Theme and why? – Entrepreneur Poll Update
Time for a Young Entrepreneur poll update! Last week we asked you, “What is your favorite WordPress Theme and why?”
To be in with a chance of winning our $25 Amazon Gift Voucher offer, please simply enter our poll and this voucher could be on it’s way to you!
WordPress is dominating the blogging scene more than [...]
8 Pitfalls to Avoid When Using Social Media for Marketing
Social media is in the process of rewriting many marketing textbooks and is being hastily added to the curriculum of many business-oriented schools of education, complete no doubt with many footnotes, asterisks, disclaimers and question marks. A business must be involved with social media, but the question is to what extent. Further, what level of [...]
Interview with Jake Nickell
For this week’s interview I was lucky enough to catch up with Jake Nickell. Jake is the founder of Threadless, a t-shirt design community where users submit designs, community votes, and staff choose between the most popular design
Adam: You had an extremely successful partnership with Jeffrey Kalmikoff, how did you meet?
Jake: We met about 2 [...]
Profile on Vera Wang
“Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn” – Vera Wang.
Vera Wang fully understands that life is all about a long journey through experience. She often talks about life’s rich learning curve and is clearly a [...]
How to Find the Right Financial Planner for You and Your Business
Financial planning seems to be more important than ever these days. Few would have imagined the catastrophic changes that we are seeing all around us, the “too big to fail” failures and the highly publicized fraud cases. Many people and businesses have suffered lasting damage and understand that their definition of security has changed almost [...]
The British Bike that Can
Step off the train in London during rush hour and you will see a swarm of be-suited business people mounting odd little fold-up bicycles.
While the average person may not have considered it, a folding bicycle is an impressive feat of engineering. It needs to be easily collapsible yet maintain alignment to offer a comfortable and [...]
What is your favorite WordPress Theme and why? – Entrepreneur Polls
It’s the start of a new poll! This month we are asking “What is your favorite WordPress Theme and why?”
To be in with a chance of winning our $25 Amazon Gift Voucher offer, please simply enter our poll and this voucher could be on it’s way to you!
WordPress is dominating the blogging scene more [...]
Interested In Running Your Own Membership Website?
Recent word out of Google tells us that they are considering the establishment of a “micro-payment” option, enabling a new payment structure to download individual pieces of information, such as an article, newsletter, feature or video. This news should give you additional cause to think about your own membership site. Online content is in constant [...]
Google or Bing?
The marriage of convenience between MSN and Yahoo gave us Bing. The birth of this child should have been celebrated with more verve by the online marketing community as we might finally have something to stand up against the omnipresence of the great Google. Not that we have particular reasons to be displeased with Google, [...]
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