You’ll look back in way in which you can’t grasp how much opportunity lay before you.
You’ll consider the freedom of choice you really had which made anything possible.
You’ll see your business ideas, predictions and philosophies transformed into an abundant economic reality.
10 years from now you’ll be able to look back on your choices today.
In 10 years….
…don’t be the shoulda, coulda, woulda guy*.
*guy means person at startupblog in a 2008 kind of way!
Here’s a link to my most recent ‘start ups’ article in Anthill Magazine – The Australian magazine for fast growth companies.
It’s an extention of a recent blog entry. In future I’ll link all my magazine articles to start up blog, which tend to build on ideas in much greater depth. (I’ve been a bit lax)
I reckon you’ll digg it (as always, pun intended).
Another business class only airline has bit the dust – Maxjet. You may remember our view on why Ozjet failed.
And on this occasion we have a similar theme, but not quite as extreme. Maxjet had some of their act together and survied 4 years. Like the right routes, nice inflight service and an airline lounge. But it still had a few key flaws which still leaves the question unanswered:
Is a business class only airline a viable business model?
Start up blog says: We won’t know until someone ticks all the following boxes:
Maybe the business class only model could only work as a sub brand of a larger network (which Lufthansa is doing). It will be interesting to see how the remaining players net out (Silver jet & Eos)
Insight?: Maybe people who regularly fly business class enjoy looking down on those in coach too much to leave their multi class carrier!
I’d strongly advice against starting an airline. But if you must, show your VC’s this blog entry first.
As a courtesy if I ever blog about anyone (good or bad) I let them know it’s there. I did this recently about Neighborhoodies.
The founder Michael sent me an email back saying – “I already know… Google Alerts baby! Thanks”.
I’ve since set up on things which are of interest to me. It saves me a great deal of time, which at present is my most scarce resource.
The really cool thing is it’s better than an RSS feed, because it’s the google bot doing all the hard work crawling the entire web for you. Every nook and cranny.
All start ups should set some up on topics of interest; themselves, their startup, their industry, their competitors, their whatever….
Click on the image above and go straight there…
Do it. Go now. Bye.
Firstly, I love Wikipedia. To quote Cameron Reilly – Everything I know I learnt on Wikipedia.
But the times they are a changin’ – says startup blog.
Wiki is at risk of losing the advantage which made it what it is today. Nat at Pure Caffeine pointed out on Twitter that; “Wikipedia [is not about] creating pseudo structures of what is ‘acceptable’ scholarship”.
We couldn’t agree more. Wikipedia is at risk of losing its competitive advantage through moderation of articles by letting the ‘sanctioned few’ decide on what deserves an entry in the peoples encyclopedia.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but…
isn’t that what Wikipedia opposes?
isn’t it “up to the market” to decide”?
shouldn’t we all have equal moderation rights?
Pull your socks up Jimmy Wales.
Start up lesson – when something makes you successful – Stick to it.
Don’t let bureaucracy destroy the basic premise of why you made it. Fight the temptation to moderate, assimilate, hydrate your proposition.
Some things aren’t worth understanding.
Just knowing it works is enough.
If we had just one customer how would we treat her?
If we had just one customer what would our business relationship be?
If we had just one customer at what lengths would we help her?
If we had just one customer we’d hope she told others good things about us.
If we had 1 million customers it would be different. We’d be too busy to do any of that stuff. We’d have projects and financials and meetings and someone answering our phone and daily issues to resolve….right?
As far as she is concerned, we only have one customer.
So it must be true, we only have one customer. We ought treat her that way.