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Make a Difference - Start a business
2008-04-08 06:45:00 There’s a lot of talk about making a difference nowadays, although I’m not sure too many people feel they know how to do anything significant beyond talking and maybe making a few small changes in their life, which is good, but I think there’s a really simple way to start on the path to something ... More About: Business , Energy , Start , Make , Difference
What I?ll do when I?ve ?made it? - Bigger things
2008-04-08 06:10:00 There’s so many ways to do something in the world that I feel I’ve had to touch but largely walk past until further notice… that further notice is having the time, ability and influence to be able to do something. I feel like I’m in stage 1 of life right now, quietly building up ability ... More About: Energy , Made , Things
Where do you fit in the conversation?
2008-04-01 12:28:00 We spend a lot of time talking with people, and we also spend quite a lot of time designing product and marketing and communications stuff, and the thing thats really been driving a lot of thinking recently, is where do we fit in conversations? Go with the flow People are already having a tonne of conversations everyday, ... More About: Conversation
Koz and Anika are Married : )
2008-03-14 04:40:00 Today Koz just got married to Anika. Big congrats Koz and Anika and look forward to partying tonight on you guys! Marriage confirmed… By twitter More About: Plan , Married
Like PlanHQ? Become an Affiliate
2008-03-12 21:03:00 Quite a few people have asked whether they can make a little money for passing on people to Plan HQ, and the answer is yes! So we’ve just started our affiliate program, if you’re interested in being part of it just drop us an email at support at planhq.com and you’ll et setup in no time. ... More About: Affiliate
Share the love - happy customers are cool
2008-03-12 05:03:00 Nik just sent an email around our team with a few cool comments he’s received in the support box from customers over the last few weeks, to share the love with the rest of us. It’s great to get this sort of stuff come in from customers, we like many cool companies don’t just make a ... More About: Love , Customers , Cool , Happy , Share
Mexico is getting bigger - How to build an island upate
2008-03-06 01:43:00 Last year I posted about How to make an island and solve a few of the worlds problems, 8 months on and a whole bunch of volunteers have now got involved in building the 2nd Spiral Island , and here’s where its at Find more photos like this on Richie Sowa's Spiral Island From Randy McCallum - ... More About: Mexico , Inspiration , Leadership , Do It Yourself
Make it Real - and open your mind
2008-03-05 08:44:00 Our friends over at Ponoko who let you make real things that get cut out of wood and plastic from your designs that you put on their website, are running a design competition, details here. One of my real good buddies Pete Black makes and designs all sorts of stuff. I’ve worked on with Pete ... More About: Inspiration , Open , Mind , Real , Make
Enhanced Team Security on Financials
2008-03-03 03:32:00 Plenty of people have been asking for some additional security around the financial aspects of Plan HQ and who in there team can see and manage what parts of it, and I’m pleased to say that we’ve just put in some simple security roles that allow you to provide limited access to financials for some of ... More About: Security , Team
Finished - Change the world one wall at a time
2008-03-03 03:00:00 If you missed it here’s day 1 and day 2 of the wall painting, and below the finished product… speaks for itself… Big thanks to Ruth Abraham - The Scotish Muralist, this is magic and lights up the wall in my house that doesn’t look out to the ocean. A few shots from day 3 and ... More About: World , Inspiration , Change , Time , Wall
Jeremy Olliver joins PlanHQ
2008-02-28 23:45:00 Jeremy has been on the team as a new ruby on rails developer for the last few months over the summer of code program, but with that now over (the sun is still shining though!), we’re keeping Jeremy on board close to full-time while he finishes off his last year at Uni. Godo to have ... More About: Jeremy , Plan
Hit it Hard and do something properly
2008-02-28 00:07:00 Following on from the video on Patrick saving the then dying garageband.com and raising fresh money and changing the thinking to pull off the now successful ilike.com, this Video is of entrepreneur James Currier (behind www.tickle.com, www.ringo.com, and www.lovehappens.com) ... More About: Hard
Day 2 - Change the world one wall at a time
2008-02-27 23:40:00 Day 2 and 3 and my favorite - the waves - start coming in. This is the only part of the painting that wasn’t exactly the same as the original photo, as the surf at our place at Ohope isn’t very big, so Ruth turned to a surf mag and put in the dream waves… Some ... More About: World , Change , Time , Wall , The World
Upload Files on PlanHQ
2008-02-25 04:10:00 We’ve been adding and tweaking up Plan HQ a lot over the last few months, one thing that plenty of people have been asking for has just been added - You can now upload files to Goals on PlanHQ. If you upload pictures it will show you nice little thumbnail versions of them. Enjoy! More About: Files , Upload
Changing the world one wall at at a time - day 1
2008-02-22 05:41:00 I’ve been very lucky in the last couple of weeks a new friend over from Scotland painted me a picture of one of my favorite views, the view out to the surf from our family beach house. The thing that made me extra lucky, is that she made it 8 foot long and 4 foot ... More About: World , Inspiration , Energy , Time , Wall
Knowing when to keep going, and what to change
2008-02-22 01:03:00 One of our early PlanHQ customers has been an entrepreneur Patrick Koppula who founded one of the worlds biggest social music sites and facebook applications ilike and now founded and heads up video recommendation site FFWD. This video below is from an event I arrived late to last year where Patrick tells his story of ... More About: Change , Leadership , Knowing
Marie-Claire Joins PlanHQ to head up New Zealand
2008-02-18 18:31:00 I’m really happy to announce that Marie -Claire has just joined the Plan HQ team to to head up New Zealand Business Development and help grow New Zealand businesses! So far, most of our customers are in the US and a growing number in Europe (and some others scattered in Australia, Japan, China), but PlanHQ is a New ... More About: Marie Claire , Head
HealthTV - Take some control of your health
2008-02-14 04:00:00 We had the opportunity to meet with a Travis the CEO of a cool company called Health TV. These guys are mixing smart marketing, smart technology and a smart business model (its free) that solves a pretty clear problem. A lot of people are spending time in doctors waiting rooms everyday, and instead of having this ... More About: Control
Manage your team and stay productive - New Team Tab
2008-02-14 03:35:00 Once you’re mapping out your company goals, you and the team need to break them up into little bits and make sure everyone in the team is busy on achieving the goals. Whether you’re managing a team or part of the team, keeping a manageable workload for yourself and everyone else that will lead you ... More About: Team , Plan , Stay , Manage
Update your Make it Happen RSS Feed if you haven?t
2008-02-10 00:57:00 I still notice that over a hundred people are still reading this Make it happen blog using our old feed address, I’m keeping it active so we don’t lose you ofcourse, but it would be cool if you could switch to the new one we opened up a few months ago so its easier for ... More About: Update , Feed , Plan , Make It Happen
Financial Post - Measure Actions against Projections
2008-01-30 02:49:00 The Canadian Financial Post just did a review on Plan HQ under there section on tools of the trade for small businesses, check out Measure action against projections. I like the way they’ve marked up our interface, as below.
Set your own standards and do more than just enough
2008-01-28 13:45:00 It sometimes still surprises me when I see people who are surrounded by highly motivated people yet still do just enough to get by. To me it shows that they just miss the point. Life is not about getting the right incentives to do something, its not about getting the same things in return for your ... More About: Standards , Energy , Balance
Raising VC money - Jeff Clavier SoftTech VC
2008-01-24 06:13:00 I had the chance to speak with Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC back at the web 2 summit last year about raising money from VC’s. Jeff specializes in online businesses based in Silicon Valley, but as a very experienced entrepreneur and investor, he’s got a lot of great advice for entrepreneurs, thanks Jeff! Video by: More About: Money , Plan
Healthy body, Healthy Mind, healthy business
2008-01-24 06:01:00 The number 1 thing behind building a healthy and fun business is keeping your body and mind healthy. It’s hard yards starting, running, and growing your business, and the commitment and persistence required to get somewhere takes a lot of your time, and most often something has to give, hopefully thats not your physical health. Me ... More About: Business , Body , Mind , Balance , Healthy
PlanHQ interview on NPost
2008-01-24 05:08:00 Here’s an interview I did with Nathan Kaiser from Npost. Nathan does a pretty awesome job of not only keeping up with all the online startups around, but also 1 by 1 interviews CEO’s from web startups from all around. Thanks Nathan, a great resource. More About: Interview , Plan
PlanHQ for VC?s - Vineet Buch from Blue Run Ventures
2008-01-23 04:57:00 I’ve had a lot of discussions with VC’s over the last 4 months, about Plan HQ as a tool for helping work with management teams of portfolio companies to evolve and work to plan. Here’s a conversation I had with Vineet Buch from Blue Run Ventures at the web 2.0 summit in October last year. We ...
The Ultimate DIY - How to Build a House .com.au
2008-01-21 01:52:00 Mick the builder has put together hundreds of videos of all the building pros showing you how to build a house. Hard to put it better than Mick who’s out to help you make it happen - “so what are ya waiting for… grab your nail bag, grab your paintbrush - become an overnight builder, ... More About: House , Do It Yourself , A House , Ultimate , Build
Tim O?Reilly speaks with PlanHQ
2008-01-17 05:43:00 I had the opportunity to speak with Tim O’Reilly founder and CEO of O’Reilly media at the web 2 summit last year, and since I was wandering around with a TV camera following me for the soon to screen Startup TV, we got some of our chat on camera, here’s what Tim has to say ... More About: Plan
Re-scheduling your goals and getting back on track
2008-01-17 05:31:00 Estimating when you’re going to get things done is hard, and the reality is instead of assuming you’ll get everything right up front, you need to actively re-schedule and re-prioritize as you make progress. If you get overdue, then rather than giving up on your plan and just getting back into the day to day, you ... More About: Getting Things Done , Goals , Back , Track
Map out your company goals and get focused
More articles from this author:2008-01-16 06:09:00 Mapping out your goals helps you and the team visualise whats going to be achieved and when its going to happen. When you lay your goals out in front of you, you really re-enforce to yourself and your team what the business is focused on. The crew here have been working for sometime on making ... More About: Company , Goals , Plan 1, 2, 3 |
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