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That was the WORLD Indigenous Business Forum… As in the whole world. And it just happened to be in Rotorua, New Zealand last month. I heard about it by accident. By word of mouth. And I got to hang out there for an afternoon and meet a delegation from the Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP)…

Ray Dalio’s Principles For Success – Animated

Jul 3, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in business, Business improvement, Uncategorized

Just watch. The link is for episode 1 of 8 episodes. Just under 4 minutes. I can’t tell if the other episodes will autoplay or not but you can always open in Youtube if not. Total watching time for all 8 episodes is about 30 minutes. This is a masterclass in how you take a…

Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Oct 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…

My first business was a failure… Here are five things it taught me

Mar 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in business, Education, edupreneur, entrepreneur, fail, failure

Thinking entrepreneurially isn’t something that happened instantly for me. In fact, it kind of happened by accident. I think I was dragged kicking and screaming into the business world. I started my professional life in education teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in both New Zealand and Japan. It turned out that this…

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Business Model Generation

Did you know that the World Indigenous Business Forum was in Rotorua NZ recently?

Ray Dalio’s Principles For Success – Animated

Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

My first business was a failure… Here are five things it taught me