Community Communities: a great place to advance careers and industries When I was starting out in my career I remember how scared I was to ask questions. Petrified!
Indie Hacking The anti-CEO playbook A bite-size break down of The anti-CEO playbook TedTalk by Hamdi Ulukaya: puts employees first: not maximising profitscommunity: focuses on supporting communitiesresponsibility: businesses have the power and responsibility to make change, we shouldn't rely and wait on government to take actionaccountability: CEO reports to
Community Having the belief and conviction to lead a community I fondly remember Derek Sivers talk on how to start a movement. The short talk is worth a watch to see how Derek shares analysis of what otherwise seems like a stupid thing. Then I stumbled across this one on Twitter. Which is basically
Growth Is your growth repeatable? Lots of what business is about isn't necessarily exciting or creative. Often the exciting and creative things happen early on in the early 'days' (the reference to 'days' here could mean weeks, months or years). Things are new, fresh and full of options. You
Indie Hacking The power in indie hacking is the freedom There are many wonderful things about the principles of indie hacking. Personally I feel that fundamentally most people who are attracted to the indie lifestyle are primarily driven towards the freedom that it can provide. Freedom could mean different things for different people. If
Community Getting product feedback from online communities One of the most common things that founders do to start gaining traction for their product is sharing something about their product in existing online communities. The goal here is often to get feedback, beta testers, product validation and early customers. In the founder
Indie Hacking Being intentional with your research and growth activities I thought I would share this here as it is currently the way I'm thinking and doing things. It may be helpful to some. I find it just helps me be and relax in the way 'Rosie' does things. There's always a lot to
Growth Growth is not rocket science I've been using a simple system from day one. I write my daily article, then I post it on Hacker News and on Twitter. The first month, four of my articles hit the front page of HN. It brought many visitors to the website,
Community Building Communities with Questions, Not Answers We live in a world where we expect and demand answers. People come searching for answers and blueprints, but leave disappointed when they don't find exactly what they are looking for. Sometimes they think they've found the perfect answer, only to find out later
Indie Hacking Finding Things To Keep You Motivated 'Find quick wins to keep you motivated' is something I heard recently. I took note of it as an interesting point of personal reflection. The slog with indie hacking is ever so real. Over the years I've realised that making decisions and then taking
Indie Hacking How do you build momentum? Some people refer to the slight edge - the little decisions that we make is all that matters as every action that is made is compounded over time. Others often are familiar with the snowball effect - start small and build upon what you
Indie Hacking The 1000 Day Rule I became aware of the 1000 Day Rule on the Indie Hacker Podcast with Tommy Griffith . In the podcast he basically says that often it takes 1000 days to replace your income. So I looked it up. On TropicalMBA it says - The 1000
Indie Hacking Do you build trust into your growth equation? I think about my personal habits and preferences when building a business. I like to know who I'm buying from, do you? I most likely won't buy something immediately if in my searches I land on a website that I've never heard of. The
Community How I Created a Simple No Code Community Resource One of my current focuses that I've been meaning to do for years is get back into learning, reading, writing and making on the topic of community building. Admittedly, I've learned loads over the years about community building. I ran a Girl Geek Dinner
Community Introverts and Events I find it almost hilarious that as such an introvert I ended up creating a business that largely connects people physically at events. My strategy to cope with this was to be the one pulling the strings. I got to make all the decisions.
