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The goal for your the first release of your new product should be to be embarrassed by it. It shouldn’t be perfect, it should be good enough. “If you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released too late.” – Reid Hoffman, Linkedin That’s not to say I don’t think beautifully designed products are important – they most definitely are – but you won’t know what goes into a...

Nov 15th

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…partly for fear of having them shot off. When I woke up this morning I was greeted by some exciting news. Melbourne-based startup Trunk.ly had been acquired by Avos, the startup setup by Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen to relaunch Delicious.com. The Trunk.ly founders Tim Bull and Alex Dong are the definition of the word tenacious. Trunk.ly is their third (fourth?) pivot in the...

Nov 10th

This last weekend I made an investment in myself that paid off. I’ve been wanting to find new startup collaborators for a while – or even just smart people to work with at Native. So I signed up to Startup Weekend – a competition where you pull together a team to build a startup project and (hopefully) launch something in a weekend. I wanted to invest in my ability to develop compelling...

Nov 8th

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Last night I went to my first Skillshare class, the Art of the Cold Call. I’ve been a cold caller for a while. My first cold calling gig was giving away tickets to a design expo. My next was cold calling motorcycle dealers for Vmoto. Then entrepreneurial speakers for the Hive. More recently I’ve cold called for entrepreneurs for the used it to find trainers for Sessions in Melbourne and New...

Sep 29th

I’m a massive fan of rejection. It’s what keeps me moving. If I wasn’t a fan I probably wouldn’t be in the business I am in. Every day I send an email or make a phone call to someone that is likely to get me a rejection. I make sure that it’s about something big and meaningful – something that is likely to cause rejection but if it doesn’t will lead me onto something bigger, something...

Aug 2nd

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I found this great post from the founder of Dropbox, Drew Houston, on Hacker News. Someone had asked him if Dropbox (currently valued at $5b) was his first idea. “[I] informally came up with and tossed around 6 or 7 ideas at the same time — not so much coding as investigating/talking to potential customers and bouncing them off other friends and entrepreneurs. this was crucial — ideas don’t...

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The new Native Digital website goes live! →

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“a Don Draper for people who don’t get up before sunset”

– Sasha Frere-Jones on Nick Cave (via austinkleon)

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mp3medication: Kimbra - Settle Down (Penguin...

Sep 16th

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Kimbra - Settle Down (Penguin Prison remix)

The video clip for Kimbra’s debut single, Settle Down, got a lot of heat on the Tumblr’s so thought I’d post up the Penguin Prison remix that is a free download. Kimbra - Settle Down (Penguin Prison remix) Follow her on the Twitter here: http://twitter.com/kimbramusic

Sep 16th

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Cookies by Douglas Adams (author: “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong. I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. I went and sat...

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“This type of church doesn’t exist in Australia. We’re not...”

– Larissa Bartlett, wife of Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett, in a New Yorker article about her role as the official spokesperson for Brand Tasmania.

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Bat bombs →

readmorewikipedia: Bat bombs were bomb-shaped casings with numerous compartments, each containing a Mexican Free-tailed Bat with a small timed incendiary bomb attached. Dropped from a bomber at dawn, the casings would deploy a parachute in mid-flight and open to release the bats which would then roost in eaves and attics. The incendiaries would start fires in inaccessible places in the...

Jul 27th

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“You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All teh Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liza Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you...

Jul 24th

S.L.O.S.H: dinner with Elmo →

At some point after dinner at The Winery last night, a visiting interstate acquaintance got down on the floor to visually recreate moments of his earlier radio interview with Elmo from Sesame Street. As he sat on the floor, with his arms in the air mimicking a Henson puppeteer, he accidentally…

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gwenfred: ohhh. nice indie rock… love the vid style too. very surreal LOL!!! pleasantville surreal. Kimbra - Settle Down (by Forum5 Recordings) Beautiful clip from @kimbramusic

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I’ve been running on and off for a couple of years now. I’ve been prone to injury so I have probably spent more time off than on which makes everyone I know ask me why I continue. I run because it’s an enourmous release. Running for me is a cure-all. When I’m feeling stressed or angry I find that running makes those feelings of frustration disappear. I can have had the worst day/week/month but...

Jul 12th

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Melbourne's "No Excuse Zone" →

If you’re a healthy adult and live in these areas you have little excuse for not riding a bike to work a couple of days a week. Hell, one day a week would be a great start for our public transport / public roads networks.

Jul 12th

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