No… I am not dead yet. ☺ But you can do me a favour when I do pop off: don’t give the “Ups” for me by pressing on the “Like” button if and when my obituary appears in social media. Why? It won’t matter to me. I’ll already be dead and won’t be able to […]

The picturesque coastal village of Portmagee in County Kerry, Ireland has a unique New Year’s Eve tradition, which dates back to 1727. The “Old Year Festival” sees locals accompany an old wizened character up the main street in a torchlight parade. At the stroke of midnight, the ‘Old Year’ character symbolically ‘dies’ and is replaced […]

Today, all entrepreneurs need to be great salesmen. And if they’re not, they should hire the best salesmen they can get their hands on. Surely no one would disagree with me on that? Then why is it that whenever I want to buy something from a company that has more than two people working for […]

Some time ago I read an article on the website devsbuild. it about what should be done to prevent disagreements among business partners. In addition to the ability to communicate and generally ‘get along’, the writer argued that partners’ DNA needs to be compatible, too. Partnerships are not easy to sustain, and you shouldn’t expect […]

This is how Eos Karlsson describes what he does in his promotional video: “I’m a stuntman.” thefreedictionary.com describes stunt as, 1. A feat displaying unusual strength, skill, or daring 2. Something done to attract attention or publicity A stuntman is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career, intended for use in motion pictures […]

Let’s say that you like arias, and watched the performances of five different sopranos over the course of a year. You hadn’t listened to any one of them before. Taken separately, each soprano was very good. However, one of them, Sirkka Lampimäki, did something so unexpected, it made her impossible to forget. Even though what […]

In the screen in front of me I am watching a video showing Eros Ramazzotti and Tina Turner while they sing Cose Della Vita. They sing in a breath-taking harmony; one voice, but two languages. The current business environment may make it hard to establish a new business due to the need to achieve much […]

As an entrepreneur you need to be always fit. Both for the health of your body and your business… Specially in the beginning, you may not have enough employees to delegate all the jobs you handle. Therefore, you may be doing various secondary tasks like from throwing out the trash to tidying up the place. […]

Years ago… My partners Cigdem, Sami in those days and myself, were sitting in the office of Sami one late evening. We had started a new business and decided to be one of the few producers of coloured bathroom accessories in the world. We had made our own designs, and were about to conquer the […]

Wikipedia: One of them played the keyboard and eventually started writing original songs for his band, many of which became local hits at the second half of the 60s. The other one started writing English-language songs for his group, and even had a brief solo career alongside. In June 1966 they decided to write a […]