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The Entrepreneur's Dilemma

All the time in the world, but what to do with it? My reason for becoming an entrepreneur has never been to make money. It’s also not about the status. I don’t even like telling people I am an entrepreneur. After almost 4 years of not being employed,

Finding your passion and other lies

Find your passion and you’ll never work a day in your life. How many times have you heard the statement above? The problem is, it’s easy to say it but much harder to actually do. The Unrealistic Expectations The point in time when we’re supposed to find

How hiring an assistant has been the best thing i've done in 2024 so far

At first you do everything When I started The Daily Wine, I went from wearing one hat as a Mechanical Engineer to wearing multiple hats at the same time: * Customer Support * Placing Orders * Processing Invoices * Finances * Marketing * Planning * Coding When you start a business, it’s not necessarily that you

Never ask for friends & family discount

Picture this.. You have an idea and you’ve spent a few years dreaming about starting your business. The simple act of making the decision to pursue your dreams is much harder than most people think. Which is why the average person never does it. If you are lucky, you

Call your parents

My parents visit Recently we had the privilege of my parents coming to visit us from Namibia. We stay in Cape Town, about 1200km’s from them and we don’t get to see them very often. We had a lovely time, laughed ourselves into tears, drank too much beer

Optimise for joy

Something to consider.. What is one thing in your life, which if it did not exists, would result in significantly more joy? Here’s my example: We moved into our current house ± 5 years ago. In our back yard, we have a Bougainvillea (yes that’s how you spell it,

Sharpening my coding axe

I believe it’s important to continually work on yourself and improve. The more time I spend building my own companies, I see opportunities all around me, especially in the online/web space. Some of these require coding skills and some of them don’t. Ecommerce has a low barrier

Life OS

As you go through life, you hear things, people give you advice and you learn lessons. If you don’t write them down or internalise them somehow, they will go missing. That is why I decided to write this post. I wanted to write down all the maxims, sayings, principles

Build in Public: GoKiddo [Part 9]

Welcome back to my GoKiddo build in public journey. If you missed Part 8, you can check it out here. Here’s a quick update about where I am at with GoKiddo. Build it, and they will come. Right? Once again, I have tricked myself into thinking I can just

Year in review: 2023

This post ended up being a monster, and probably the longest blog post I have ever written. I do think it is important to take stock of the year that has passed and to evaluate where you are going. So here goes. First I wanted to start with the goals

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Eugene's Musings

Thoughts, tools, and cool ideas on startups, entrepreneurship, productivity, culture and life in general.

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