???Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek??? And What We Did About It - Fog Creek Blog
Robin Blandford
via blog.fogcreek.com always a good read
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Creating Contagious Enthusiasm - A discussion by Robin Blandford
What Bill Gates Could Learn from Chris Rock
Robin Blandford
our educational system emphasizes spoon-feeding us knowledge, such as scientific tables or historical information, and then testing us in order to measure how much we???ve retained about that body of knowledge, rather than teaching us how to create ...
Read MoreBang on. Be different.
Robin Blandford
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/technology-startup100/8281616/Start-Up-... Good piece by Paul Carr
Read MoreCommunity building, a case study
Robin Blandford
I got forwarded a copy of an email just before Christmas which had just been sent to a bunch of senior people at Red Hat (3,200 employees, $748m annual revenue). With the following introduction... Our mission statement is: "To be the catalyst in c...
Read More2010 - You were AWESOME!
Robin Blandford
Themes... if 2008 was the year of travel, 2009 was the year business foundations, then 2010 was the year of international business. This year we took Decisions For Heroes 'on tour' and now have customers in 6 countries. UK, Ireland, New Zealand, U...
Read MoreNew office sneak peek!
Robin Blandford
Workspace area.
Read MoreWonders if John Collins saw this link on my twitter
Robin Blandford
I was tweeting all week about listening to Dublin Airport ATC live online. Today I see it in the Irish Times! Wonder if I influenced that?
Read MoreAlways iterate everything
Robin Blandford
Here's a reminder to always iterate everything.Isn't innovation is wonderful?
Read MoreI welcome you Olli Rehn
Robin Blandford
I welcome with open arms the European economic and monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn.Our country is not capable of doing enough to drastically hatchet itself. This is not about reordering things. It's not about shifting around assets, and th...
Read MoreHelp Needed: Virtual Phone System
Robin Blandford
End Goal: To have our staff be able to take calls from multiple international office phone numbers (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, NZ) anywhere they plug their laptop into the internet (with a headset - rather than forwarded to their mobile). We like th...
Read MoreHealth Expenses (PAYE) Phishing?
Robin Blandford
Check out this application, is this for real or a Phishing attempt? How would you know it was authentic? http://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/health-expenses-paye/id352737660?mt=8
Read MoreUnemployed but WANT to be self-employed?
Robin Blandford
Thanks to Paul McCrodden for pointing out that there is a totally unpublicised Back To Work Enterprise Allowance. This allows you to keep a percentage of their social welfare payment for up to 2 years. Nice! I'm sure there are 100's of catches and...
Read MoreGoogle/SEM Ads Don't Work For Us
Robin Blandford
I've long been saying this, and everyone keeps telling me I've just got our keywords wrong. But Google Ads just do not work for us. We have seen zero customers from them. So now I'm delighted to read Dropbox CEO: Why search advertising failed us H...
Read MoreWhy aren't we creating more small businesses?
Robin Blandford
I don't get it. Our government in Ireland is screaming for job creation to get people off the dole. It makes the friggn' news every-time a company announces 50 new jobs in a town. But big job announcements are flakey jobs, they can come as quick a...
Read MoreStop the bleedn' moaning. If it was easy everyone would be doing it.
Robin Blandford
Now everyone else has done their moaning, it seems to be the entrepreneurs time. Poor us, poor me. There are no investors in Ireland. Enterprise Ireland won't talk to us. We can't get a grant. Enterprise Ireland won't fund us. The County Enterpris...
Read MoreLiving Nomad Style
Robin Blandford
Spotted Paul Carr in the UK papers.
Read MoreLong Live Real Business
Robin Blandford
Something beautiful is happening here in Dublin, Ireland. The death of credit has made way for the re-birth of value. Fantastic post by Eoin. Long Live Real Business
Read MoreDibby
Robin Blandford
Video of Dot Conf Talk
Robin Blandford
You can see me and Donnchadh talking at Dot Conf here in this video.
Read MoreWe must be doing something right!
Robin Blandford
Great response on Twitter yesterday after our talk at Dot Conf. Thanks to Ciara Mac Mahon for the photo! -- mbehan: Loving the presentation by decisions for heroes. Too many ppl shy away from awesomeness #dotconf @Dan_ONeill: Those who left #dotco...
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