My CEO Life

Recently we closed down some of our businesses.  These closures were pure because the business model and products that we were working on were just not working.  That is life.  Things work and things don’t.  However, what was interesting for me was that one of the blogs picked up that we had closed some of our businesses and many of the comments were negative and critical of us failing.  It was then that I remember the Thomas Edison quote of “I failed my way to success”.

1. What to Look For When Investing in Companies

   I am a serial investor. To date, via the fund I manage, we have invested in 11 different Internet businesses. These investments range from a hundred $100k right through to $2m. We have been lucky, the investment of $6m has...

2. How Do You Value a Web 2.0 Business?

   A reader in India has sent me a question all around business valuation and more specifically he asked, how do you value a Web 2.0 business. At the REA Group we purchased 15 different businesses and during that time used...

3. Employee Ownership of a Business – Important to Long Term Success

   I have worked in a number of businesses and i find that employee ownership in the business is important to the long term success of that business. In talking to employees who have some sort of ownership in a business,...

4. What Makes a Great CEO?

   Here is a great question “i am doing a project for school and it says pick your dream job and describe the requirements for that job…i choose the ceo of microsoft and its hard to find the requirements needed…so if...

5. Making Accounting Roles Exciting

   How does one make an accounting/reporting role exciting? I was cracking my head after reading your blog on how to attract excellent people. How does one start the conversation to do a hard sell on accountants? In most cases it’s...