blake kathryn
Not today Justin
titsay
No title available
#extradirty
Keni
Discoholic 🪩
Cosimo Galluzzi
Game of Thrones Daily
roma★
$LAYYYTER
cherry valley forever
⁂
No title available
DEAR READER
we're not kids anymore.
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Xuebing Du
h
No title available
seen from Malaysia
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from Argentina
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Mexico
seen from Spain
seen from Spain
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Chile
seen from Denmark
seen from United States
seen from Italy
seen from Netherlands
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
@sandtonjournal
Relaunching Sandton Journal
Blogging, albeit something I don’t do frequently, is something I enjoy.
I would like to get your feedback as the reader, to understand how to better position this blog in a way that is both useful to the reader and is in line with my core values/interests. Please fill in the survey below to help in this regard
https://emmanuel324.typeform.com/to/v3ChWd
View On WordPress
The startup dead zone
The startup dead zone
The ‘dead zone’, this is the purgatory where startups are either cleansed of their ineptitude to serve their respective markets or they like most startups die a painful death. This a familiar, scary and very dangerous place to be in, because it could literally make or break your venture (well, anything can make or break an early stage startup). From my limited experience in the startup realm my…
View On WordPress
COULD THE SKY REALLY BE THE LIMIT?
COULD THE SKY REALLY BE THE LIMIT?
Consistency, consistency, consistency. This is the key to any championship charge and THIS is what Mamelodi Sundowns have been showing in the current PSL campaign.
On the one hand you have an ambitious coach who wants to succeed at all costs and test himself against the very best the continent has to offer, and on the other hand you have a team that is equally ambitious, if not more, has…
View On WordPress
Paradox - Margaret Cuonzo (Book Review)
Paradox – Margaret Cuonzo (Book Review)
This definitely has to go down as one of my favorite books of the year (the list would have to include zero to one, the hard thing about hard things, the theory of everything and maybe Godel Escher Bach- atleast certain parts).
According to Margaret Cuonzo a paradox, ‘can be an anything from a tough problem or counter-intuitive opinion or conclusion to a visual sleight of hand’, she gives an…
View On WordPress
The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli (Book Review)
The Prince- Niccolo Machiavelli (Book Review)
I managed to re-read the Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, needless to say this is always a decent book to read as it helps you, to a certain degree, understand how to retain power (not so much how to gain power). Most of the advice offered is somewhat obvious, but that does not take away from the value of reading this book.
The people over the leader
It is wiser to trust in the people than it is…
View On WordPress
How to solve it: A new aspect of mathematical method- G. Polya (Book Review)
How to solve it: A new aspect of mathematical method- G. Polya (Book Review)
I have not been able to find time, or the mental energy (the latter being the most relevant, because you always have some free time) to write book reviews of the books I have read of late. Between work, working on my personal project, trying to learn how to code (first javascript and now python) and other educational pursuits, I have been a little preoccupied.
A while ago I decided to buy…
View On WordPress
TIME TO WALK ALONE
TIME TO WALK ALONE
Brendan Rodgers took over arguably one of the biggest teams in world football in Liverpool in 2012 and was expected to take “the Reds” back to their glory days by bringing success back to the club and taking the club back to being one of Europe’s elite once more. A feat we can now say that, in his fourth season in charge at the club, he is nowhere near than when he started. Apart from Liverpool’s…
View On WordPress
SHAKES MAKHALANJALO
The appointment of Shakes Mashaba was a welcome one in the eyes of many of the football loving public and much was expected of the man who has had success with junior and national senior teams. His first qualification process went through without a glitch and we secured our spot in AFCON 2015 but that success was sadly short lived. Picking up only one point was the highlight of a tournament that…
View On WordPress
KASI FLAVOUR MAKES A RETURN
KASI FLAVOUR MAKES A RETURN
During the last few weeks of last season we saw a part of South African football come to life that many of us thought dead.With the emergence of players like Thabo Rakhale and Mahlatse Makudubela and the reinvigoration of George Lebese,not forgetting the reintroduction of Masibusisane Zongo,came a whole lot of trickery and sleepless nights for defenders.In South Africa we like to refer to this…
View On WordPress
Prioritizing profitability or Growth
Prioritizing profitability or Growth
I was having a conversation with one of my mentors, an entrepreneur in Durban, a few days ago about the importance of prioritizing profitability over growth when starting a tech business. According to my mentor the problem with the current crop of tech-prenenurs in South Africa is they forget that they are not at the Valley (Silicon Valley).
The venture capital scene in South Africa is barely…
View On WordPress
Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie or Die- Eric Siegel, Thomas H. Davenport (Book Review)
Predictive Analytics (PA) can be summed up as understanding the value of data and its ability to allow businesses (offline and online businesses) to foresee the future and predict what their customers will do before they do it. The value this has on a business’ financials is evident- knowing how your customers will behave would, in theory and possibly in practice, allow you to cut your marketing…
View On WordPress
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future- Ashlee Vance (Book Review)
We can, with a certain degree of confidence, regard Elon Musk as one of the greatest entrepreneur, innovator and technologist of our times. Elon Musk can boast to having made two successful (multi-million and billion dollar) exits and being the founder/co-founder (or, more appropriately, the majority shareholder for companies such as Tesla and SolarCity) of 3 multi-billion dollar companies;…
View On WordPress
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age- Paul Graham (Book Review)
This is a book for every hacker, creative type and up and coming tech entrepreneur. Paul Graham, goes into detail explaining his musings about the computer age and life lessons from his entrepreneurship journey. The beauty of it all is that each Chapter is independent from the other, meaning you can read the book in whatever order you want to and it will still make sense.
Why nerds are unpopular
View On WordPress
Choosing between a job and entrepreneurship
One of the hardest choices a person can make is deciding whether or not to focus on becoming a full time entrepreneur. The corporate sector offers a certain level of security that entrepreneurship can never offer. It is only natural that we value something that offers security and more often than not an option that offers a somewhat decent pay.
However not everyone values security, the…
View On WordPress
Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to knowing what the numbers really mean- Karem Berman and Joe Knight (Book Review)
Accounting is as much an art as it is a science. Tha finance team estimates figures based on assumptions they have made about the business’ operations (including the business’ revenues, depreciation, amortization and expenses to name but a few things), these figures lead to certain biases in management’s decision making and these biases have certain implications on a business’ operations. This…
View On WordPress
Why labour laws have failed SMEs in South Africa; challenging the 'status quo'
One of the objectives identified by the National Development Plan (NDP) is the creation of 11million jobs within the South African economy. For obvious reasons the bulk of the these jobs will not be created within the public sector because the government sustainably create new jobs- government spending is more often than not a zero-sums game, if the government decides to pump money into a certain…
View On WordPress
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers- Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur (Book Review)
A business model is defined in this book as the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers and captures value. This, ‘business model’ has to be a simple and relevant document that details how your business plan to create value. Canvas
The business canvas is a design tool (sometimes even a drawing) that represents the shared language used to describe, assess and even change an existing…
View On WordPress