adii: startupquote: Scatter-gun approach rarely works, as you’re only splitting your ideas and energy. - Adii Pienaar I’m following in Mark’s footsteps now; hopefully though one day when I’m famous, the media won’t reference this funky-looking photo of me.

adii:

startupquote:

Scatter-gun approach rarely works, as you’re only splitting your ideas and energy.

- Adii Pienaar

I’m following in Mark’s footsteps now; hopefully though one day when I’m famous, the media won’t reference this funky-looking photo of me.

1 year ago comments

adii, woothemes, 

I need to be working for a reason. Salaried work isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the benefits it provided me weren’t benefits I actually wanted.

Xavier Shay, on why he quit a six figure job.

From following me here, you would know that I’d recommend being an entrepreneur (and hence your own boss) on most occasions. But what I’ve learned is that there are simply some people who don’t want to go that route and I’ve realized that, that too is perfectly fine.

And I guess that is why I love Xavier’s post; not because of his decision to got a 9 - 5 job, but because he made a decision unique to himself. If you read through the post, you will find specific reasons to his decision for quitting his job.

And that’s great, because that approach means that this kind of decision can never be a simple generic one.

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1 year ago comments

inspiration, adii, 

Creating Value

adii:

After reading this article about Airbnb’s success, there was one bit from the article that really got me thinking:

“…a company that creates immensely more value than it extracts from customers…”

Reading & re-reading that phrase really got me thinking about how other business models work in terms of the margin between value created & value extracted.

I’ve not read Tony Hsieh’s Delivery Happiness yet either, but I kinda suspect that it’s gonna come down to the same principle: create & offer more value than you are necessarily being paid.

This doesn’t mean you should cut profit margins or stop earning a profit all-together, but you should consider adding non-financial value to whatever it is you are offering clients. So how can you do that in your business?

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1 year ago comments

adii, zappos, 

My assets are huge.

Elon Musk, goes on record saying that he’s broke, but his “assets” are huge.

And this is just another reason why the world is in recession and people are struggling to pay off debts. Cash is king.

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1 year ago comments

adii, quote,