Luck Favours the Bold – Lose the Safety Shell

By H.Sekhon On May 6, 2011 · View Comments · In General

Have you ever been presented with a proposition that you think in hindsight would have gotten you where you wanted to be? Has it ever turned into a mind vs heart confrontation?

I was recently presented with the decision to choose a fulfilling career path. On one hand we had an IT role, which was [...]

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Big Retailers Don’t Get It – Embracing The Web and Online Shopping

By H.Sekhon On March 30, 2011 · View Comments · In Business, General, Marketing, Social Media

This comes off the back of the news that yet another Australian retail giant has decided to cannibalize stores and create a “dominant” presence on the interwebs. This combined with Myers and David Jones’ lobbying to introduce mandatory GST on imports is [...]

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Excel Kills the Ability to Make Sense of Information – The Need for Information Visualization

By H.Sekhon On February 26, 2011 · View Comments · In General, Technology

 

Not so long ago I wrote about the need for “Connecting the social media networks” to obtain quality consumer profiles for better targeting of marketing efforts. While inter-connecting them might only remain a dream, according to

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News From the Startup Trenches – Lose Some Sleep

By H.Sekhon On January 11, 2011 · View Comments · In General, Startups

It’s been about 3 months since we’ve been working part-time on our startup and after a somewhat staggering start on the technical co-founder’s part (i.e. me) we’ve covered some ground. You’ve probably read the previous posts on starting a [...]

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