Mr Lewis

Tag: strategy

  • From Kitchen table to IPO – Pick up the New Skills

    Last week I talked about the selecting your Advisors when going public that came out of the Churchill Club programme “from Kitchen table to IPO”. which we ran on the 17th April.   We were joined by Silvio Salom of Adacel Technologies Ltd , Leon Lau of Peoplebank Ltd and Michael Abela of Mobi Ltd .…

  • From Kitchen Table to IPO – What’s your strategy?

    During the dotcom era, the Holy Grail was to found a technology company, get capital, list it then move on. But very few achieved this. In fact the few that did setup business that listed generally hung around and had some fascinating learning experiences on the way. So on the 17th April at the Churchill…

  • How to Execute a favour

    How to execute a favour (is it just me that this sounds weird to?) A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I dislike favours Almost certainly someone whom knows me well has read the article and thought b*llshit, you’ve done me favours! Its not true though, I don’t do favours anymore, I only…

  • I Hate Favours

    Since I have been getting up on my high horse lately about quality executions, I felt compelled to rant a bit about favours. I hate favours. Favours drive me insane, because mostly they are not favours at all.  So what do I mean? Consider this experience of mine… One of my IT services companies had…

  • How I learnt to love bad suppliers

    I got a quote the other day from a computer guy, who emailed: “I will charge you $350 to upgrade your Drupal installation to the latest version.” This was probably the worst quotation I have ever received. (Drupal is an open source content management system that I use in one of my businesses.) So I…

  • Problem Solving Pathways

    The other week I went to hear a speaker talk on leadership in times of crisis. I noticed during the question time that lots of people were asking really good questions, but I didn’t think of my good questions until the next day. Irritating but not unusual. On discussion with a friend, we came to…