October 2009

From the very beginning of this blog, my goal was to help people better understand the risks and concepts needed to start their own businesses. Although I have a respectable following already, I’ll be honest with you: I want to build this into the largest social network and community about business startups. Its a mouthful and a handful, but I am willing to do it and I know there enough people in the world that would benefit from this.

I am revealing some great things to expect from The Startup CEO, some of which include:

  • Interviews with successful CEOs of private and public companies in South Africa.
  • I will reveal the details around my own business concept, and explain why I started this blog.
  • There is a startup e-book I am working on about how to start your business easily and profitably, featuring exclusive content that won’t be on this site. Also,  50 free copies will be hand delivered to my frequent posters.
  • I will establish a business startup forum on this site, with networking opportunities, business ideas, hints and tips and more!

So guys, in order to get this community that I want to build on its feet, I need your help and support. Please subscribe via email or RSS if you haven’t yet, by clicking on the links in the top right corner. Remember – if you don’t subscribe, you will be kept out of the loop!

Many thanks and kind regards

CEO

The Single Best Way to Defeat the 9-5 Grind

October 27, 2009

In 210 BC, a Chinese commander named Xiang Yu led his troops across the Yangtze River to attack the army of the Qin dynasty. Pausing on the banks of the river at night, his troops awakened to find, to their horror, that their ships were burning. It was soon discovered that Xiang Yu himself set [...]

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“If you aren’t throwing up after the challenge is finished, you didn’t try hard enough”

October 24, 2009

So I was watching an episode of Survivor earlier today, and started thinking about a comment one player made. “If you aren’t throwing up after the challenge is finished, you didn’t try hard enough” – Russel, Survivor Season 19 Now, let me provide some more information about Russel. He is a large, grubby looking figure [...]

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What Windows 7 Means for Business

October 24, 2009

I wanted to wait until all the hype around Windows 7 had died down before posting this entry, since it would be drowned out by the multitude of other posts and articles about this new operating system from Microsoft. However, after installing Windows 7 yesterday I simply got too excited to hold this back. Firstly, [...]

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The Finest Example of Social Media Marketing I’ve Seen

October 9, 2009

Although its difficult to pitch a business in such a way as to appeal to people on social media sites such as YouTube, Digg and StumbleUpon, I have recently come across a company that executed it perfectly! Blendtec, a company in the U.S. that makes blenders, has made a series of videos where a scientist-looking [...]

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