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My friends TAM, SAM and OAM…and why they are important. When Sir James Dyson launched his bagless vacuum cleaner with cyclone technology, at a price point that was four times more expensive than existing hoovers, most potential investors he spoke to predicted that at such a premium it would be no more than a niche…

I started my own business and became a CEO at the age of just 23. Here’s what I’ve learned. CEO, a job title that many spend years aspiring to have while others couldn’t think of anything worse than be at the helm of a company. Having run my own business now for six years I’ve…

How do you achieve your ambitious goals?  Recently my daughter was doing her art homework that involved doing a detailed drawing of a horse’s head taken from a photograph using multiple squares to form one overall grid. The drawing looked very similar to the photograph. It was the small things, the little details that she…

Speakers that have inspired me Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms. I draw much of mine from sport – I believe sport can teach business much about performance and leadership, and sporting analogies make perfect metaphors for ambition, achievement, success and teamwork. I’ve been lucky to hear many sports stars speak about their careers,…

Getting Real: the smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application As part of my New Year resolutions in 2018 I set myself the goal of reading one book, every month. One of the thirteen that I read, in the end, was “Getting Real – The smarter, faster, easier way to build a…

Introduction to CEO Corner  Welcome to CEO corner! It is here that I am going to share my thoughts on things I have read, discovered, done and experienced that I think are inspiring, useful and interesting to young professionals and young leaders and entrepreneurs out there. Likewise, I would like to invite them from time…