Anna and Andy talk about the benefits Stuff and Nonsense gained when they ditched daily rates and fixed project pricing and switched to estimating, working and billing in weekly patterns. Andy explains how agile methods can benefit designers and clients, even though he doesn’t really know the difference between agile and scrum. After hours, they talk about their movie of the week, Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol 2.
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Andy Clarke and Anna Debenham have Unfinished Business
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This is the year of Ashley Baxter
While Andy is in Japan, Anna is joined by the amazing Ashley Baxter, who took over her dad’s insurance business at 18. They talk about starting out young, learning new skills, determination, vision and overcoming fear.
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CEOs Need Tougher, Not Softer Skills To Succeed
This broadcast features Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, speaking at the 2008 Management Conference. He shares his research on how successful CEOs are efficient, proactive, and persistent. Chicago GSB Podcast
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From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small
The web has always attracted mavericks and entrepreneurs, and a rocky economy makes the freelance life more desirable (or at least more inevitable) than ever. So what happens when your freelance business starts to grow? How big can you get without getting bad? How can freelancers and small teams compete with traditional agencies? Hip freelancers and cool agency heads will answer questions, compare experiences, and tell their stories.
Jeffrey Zeldman, Happy Cog Studios
Roger Black, Roger Black Studio
Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic
Whitney Hess
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Career Renegade: How To Make A Great Living Doing What You Love
Career Renegade is 288 pages of kick-ass, real-world, seriously actionable strategies, resources and case-studies that walk you through the process of building your career around the activities, settings and people that make you come alive. Steering clear of new-age, self-help fluff, this veritable renegade roadmap dives squarely into how to turn nearly any passion into real money (often online), build a powerhouse personal brand, rally the cynics to your cause and leverage your passion, knowledge and platform to make a great living doing what you love, even in this economy.
Jonathan Fields, Career Renegade / Awake @ The Wheel
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SUPER-INCUBATION - HOW A START-UP DOUBLED IN SIZE OVER JUST 12 MONTHS
Greig Holbrook, MD of Oban Multilingual, knew he had a huge opportunity in the field of Multilingual search engine optimisation but was struggling to take full advantage. Based at the Sussex Innovation Centre (SInC) he decided to use a SInC product, Superincubation, to help structure and focus intensively on the growth of his business. This podcast gives Greig’s feedback on the process.
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Avoid the Venture Capital Trap: Fund Your Own Business
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How to be happy at work
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FREE: The Economics of Abundance and the Price of Zero
O’Reilly Media Tools of Change Conference 30 minutes, 13.8mb, recorded 2007-06-19
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