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My (blog’s) elevator pitch

Taipei 101 elevator
Taipei 101 elevator

In an attempt to start blogging more frequently I watched a recording of Michael Hyatt’s webinar “Blog Faster and Blog Smarter“.  Today I’ve started reading a challenge called “31 Days to Build a Better Blog“. The first challenge is to write an elevator pitch for your blog (or actually what I’m all about personally). So here we go for a few first drafts. Short versions:

  1. Inspiration and actionable insights for founders and innovators with some bits of travel and photography.
  2. To help startups, scaleups and corporate innovators get to market leadership faster.
  3. Supporting startups, scaleups and innovators get going and growing
  4. (My) thoughts and learnings on entrepreneurship, innovation, travel and photography
  5. Helping founders and innovators struggle through the valley of death and the steep climb of the growth curve

Giving the above some further thought and reading my bio again for now I’ll settle on: “Thoughts and inspiration on startups, scaleups and innovation with some bits of travel and photography

Since and elevator ride in my favorite elevator (the Taipei 101) takes about 40 seconds the more extended version of my pitch is something like this:

On a daily basis I work with the most gifted entrepreneurs getting startups going, scaleups growing and corporate innovations thriving. Together we share the joy and the hardship it takes to grow these ventures to market leaders. The lessons learned and the inspiration gained deserve to be shared to help you succeed in your entrepreneurial endeavours. Company growth and growth on a personal level go hand in hand. Leadership, personal development, technology, photography and travel are other things on my mind. I also consider these worth sharing so they will find their way into my stories and hopefully act as source of inspiration and facilitate a more personal connection.

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Hidden iOS gestures

I’ve discovered some really handy time-saving hidden gestures in iOS:

Swipe down in mail to minimize the compose window

Swipe left or right to delete digits in the calculator

Tap and hold the “123” button to type one symbol

Tap-tap-swipe for one handed zooming in Google Maps

For more from where these came from please visit Lifehacker.

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How to say ‘no’

At some point in your career you will have more requests coming your way than you possibly can handle. Having three meetings at the same time at different locations is physically impossible and in such cases I find it relatively easy to say no. At other times it is more difficult. I just listened to a great podcast on this topic with some very useful tips and practical advice. Head over to Michael Hyatt’s blog to find the podcast, video and other resources.

Another resource I would like to share on this topic is the book that influences many by Greg McKeown, Essentialism – the disciplined pursuit of less. There is a whole section on saying ‘no’ in his book. He’s also written a short blogpost about it, which unfortunately is not as insightful as the book (for a reason probably, so buy the b0ok!).

Good luck saying ‘no’ this week!