Selling a company is not the same as selling a car, or software, or white goods. Most of us will never have the opportunity to sell a company. For the very few who get their company ready for sale, it is unlikely that they will ever make more than one or two sales per lifetime. … Read more

For the first time in the history of mankind the playing fields are level. It doesn’t matter who you are. Your colour, religion, race, health are no longer important. Especially if we can’t see them! All that matters is what you do with your brain. (And, of course, access to the empowering technology of the … Read more

We small business owners are usually really bad at promoting ourselves. I see this every fortnight when I attend a local networking breakfast and watch folk stumble to explain what they do, and why. I see the same thing in the complex and indirect ways we find to promote ourselves. It seems that almost anything … Read more

The above are about the only things a business can do. I’d like to look at Satrting and Stopping this week. Want an elegant, professional, up-market shop on the Internet? Sounds complex, and fraught with pain and risk, doesn’t it? That was indeed the case until recently. It doesn’t matter if you have an offline … Read more

Last night in Ringwood crime struck closer than ever before in my 50 years. At least, that is, if one discounts the fellow who felt that my leaving a PC in the boot of my Golf in Umhlanga was an offer to share. At 1:50 am we awoke to the sound of our new neighbour … Read more

As I moved home last week I put some insulin into the new fridge where it promptly froze. This is not really a problem with insulin, unless you’re expecting it to work afterwards. The end result was that the past three days have passed in a daze as my blood sugar reached new heights. (That’s … Read more

This mortal coil has a few peccadilloes. One of the ones I find most interesting is our reluctance to accept change. Within a few seconds of meeting somebody we squash them into a pigeonhole in our minds. And that’s where they’re going to stay, no matter how much they don’t fit the box. For example, … Read more

Money is a fascinating topic. We all want more. Most of us have no real idea what it is, other than a happy bank balance or a pile of paper animals in our wallet. Last week I learned more about the Rand than I really thought I wanted to know. A simple example: Why does … Read more

I suspect that each of us has a favourite experience, where everything is just so. A place that defines us, and on the day we finally make that transition from worm to butterfly, it will the place that we think of with nostalgia, joy and a feeling that life is complete. I have two. The … Read more

I completed two score years and ten this past weekend. Coincidentally, last month, on one of my visits while my dad was ill, I walked past the very room where I entered life at the Kingsbury way back in 1958. Back then we had electricity. Of course, we didn’t have much equipment that needed it, … Read more