Last Friday I was honoured to speak at the Overseas Korean Traders Association (OKTA) event in Brisbane, Australia. As I wrote about after my invitation to speak, I was impressed by OKTA’s mission and in particular their intention to educate 100,000 young Korean entrepreneurs – to help change the face of business around the world,...
Source: MarkMapstone.com I normally save the “In the Media” heading a tag (yes, tag – you can use these to track common articles on my site, like all of my media appearances) for news publications and websites, but I’ll make an exception in this case. It’s a blog post by UK based web designer (that’s underselling him)...
As an international business coach and speaker who specialises in working with young entrepreneurs (we have things in common!), I would love for every week to include an opportunity to speak to a group of energetic business people who have global awareness. This coming week I have been invited to just such an opportunity, and I’m excited! I...
Paul Graham continues to be one of my favourite business writers – I estimate that I’ve been reading his essays for a decade now. In many ways, even without having met him, pg (and Hacker News, which he built and originally named Startup News) is a key influence in my enthusiasm for tech startups, capital...
Here’s a question I get asked from time to time: why, when I write, do I always refer to my beautiful wife as “my beautiful wife”? And it is something I do deliberately: Here’s an example from Hacker News in 2010; here’s an example from my ‘About Jacob Aldridge’ page; and here’s a recent tweet....
I’ve selected a handful of heuristics in my life that I credit with making me happy(ier). Here’s one of the big ones: Never Run for Public Transport. I developed this decision-making framework in my final year of university. (That was a happy year for a lot of reasons, but I don’t want to digress). Brisbane...