April 30, 2018The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! A problem I’ve seen often in high-growth companies is an inability to scale storytelling.
March 28, 2018The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! By now we think we’re pretty smart – we’ve made it easier for folks to navigate and read one of the most complicated things in the world to read – legal documents. But then along has come “smart contracts”, to remind our team at my beloved Clausehound.com that there’s always someone “smarter” out there.
March 04, 2018The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! Startup founders are often 'sipping their own Kool Aid'. In the early days of a startup company, the founders often envision and believe with almost cult-like intensity in a product or market need that sometimes no one else can see.
February 23, 2018The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! According to TheChineseZodiac.org, the Chinese Zodiac’s complexity lies in the Oriental system of reckoning time, the key players being the Sun, Moon and Jupiter, which are seen to traverse the heavens at vastly different speeds to one another.
February 04, 2018The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! This week my beloved Clausehound.com was accepted into the CTA New York accelerator.
January 21, 2018The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! I had the pleasure this weekend of judging the 2017 IBK Business Plan competition which brings MBA students from around the world in a head to head elimination competition, showcasing the next big thing.
January 13, 2018The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! From student to entrepreneur, and back. And what an education it was. I never considered myself to be the entrepreneurial type.
January 07, 2018The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! Whether you’re building innovative products at large companies or small startups, you shouldn’t have a long roadmap.
December 30, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! So you have an idea. It starts in your head and your excitement leads you to bring it to the world.
December 23, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! Most goals we have are destinations. They manifest as a lifestyle we desire, a type of person we want to be with.
December 16, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! To My Younger Self, Every day you’re learning new things about yourself and changing. Which could also imply that every day you’re a slightly different person.
December 11, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! I just watched this video on spirals and it struck me that pattern matching is very important to us collectively.
December 01, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! I just finished an application to enter our startup, Spiffy, in a pitch contest with a prize of $100,000, and I had a funny thought.
November 25, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! I’ve been researching the concept of 'openness' in organizations. I came across this concept when I watched this fireside chat with Mike Cannon-Brookes of Atlassian at Startup Battlefield Australia, released one week ago.
November 18, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! Our team is growing at my beloved Clausehound.com, and that is great. It is no longer a big panic to get from version to version or from demo to demo.
November 10, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! Opinion For this week’s Founder’s Only I dug into Faheem’s podcast archives.Faheem is a member of Founder’s Only and he and I were MBA friends over a decade ago.
November 03, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! Julie Zuzek 'the Corporate Yogi' and I have been friends for nearly a decade, and I have often tried to apply her approach to the 'enntrepreneur mindset' over the course of my own founder journey.
October 27, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! A couple of years ago, I headed up the social entrepreneurship and social finance efforts at the BMW Foundation in Berlin. As I got to know more and more social innovation organisations, big and small, I started to notice an unsettling trend.
October 20, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! It’s now September 26, 2017, our fifteenth anniversary. It took me a year to reflect on all of this and to write this post.
October 13, 2017I was grabbing a coffee at Le Gourmand in Toronto and I saw a guy wearing a shirt that said 'Find what you love and let it kill you.' I was initially skeptical, because death sucks, but I was also intrigued, so I Googled it.
October 06, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! As soon as I met Jennifer and Upside Foundation of Canada, I liked what they were all about. Their foundation promotes the allocation of 1% of your company’s equity to a charitable purpose.
September 29, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! When you’re a young, broke student, beers are like gold. In college dorms, they’re an entirely separate currency.
September 15, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! Transcendental meditation is having a moment. Everyone from Hugh Jackman to Oprah is an avid fan.
September 08, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you. INFINTI Lab is all wrapped up and it was a wonderful experience. I had the fortune to arrange some seasoned and serial entrepreneurs to come in and speak at the Lab.
September 01, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! When it rains, it pours. Life events aren’t evenly distributed. Changes seem to bombard us in clusters as if they conspired on timing, prying us from the calm of everyday life, and distracting us from getting on with our plans.
August 25, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! There’s a building near my apartment that houses a revolving door of different restaurants. Everyone’s seen businesses begin and fail. Maybe I’ve seen more than most.
August 18, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! We have a chance to talk to Sam about his Founder journey. Here were some of the highlights from his conversation with Rajah Lehal, Founder of Clausehound.com.
August 11, 2017The 'Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! There was a call today asking for Sundar to resign from the CEO role of Google. Diversity is a touchy subject these days, and we were proud to see a fellow Founder’s comments on their approach to Diversity in last week’s Journey post.
August 04, 2017The ‘Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! Amazing news this week from the Tribe! We just hit the century mark for the number of employees worldwide. This is an enormous triumph for us to have grown this organization to 100 of the smartest and brightest in digital innovation in just a year and a half.
July 28, 2017The Hound is sniffing out cool innovations for you! I don’t think I’ve ever been particularly comfortable with a lot of the nomenclature we use in ‘our sector’ (not crazy about that term either, now that I write it), even if I am responsible for perpetuating it to some extent. I have always been an entrepreneur, period, and feel a little bit precious—and discounted—when the modifier ‘social’ is in front of it.
July 21, 2017These are photographs of me at various events that I’ve spoken at. None of these outfits are mine. The pants are my sister’s, the shirts my roommates’, and the dresses are my old friend and roommate’s, Akua’s. She’s famous now, so it’s fine.
July 14, 2017If there is one thing I am sure I have in common with Clausehound founder, Rajah Lehal, it’s that I am positive, that when starting his own company, he was told by nearly everyone he bumped into that the sector he was going after was too unique and would never change.
July 12, 2017Here’s something you learn when building teams: at a certain point, growing the team adds to its capabilities by frustratingly less than you thought. Richard Branson is fully aware of this fact, which is why Virgin companies have historically grown from startup until about 100 people, and then undergone cell division that left 50 in the old venture, and 50 in the new one.