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

Life Goal: Maximise moments of contentment

When you’re a kid, all you want, is to be an adult. And when you become an adult and responsible for your own life, bills etc. You realise very quickly, that it’s not everything you thought it would be. Enter the Rat Race All of a sudden, you

Stick to your guns

Earlier this week, I was enjoying a pleasant and relaxing evening with my wife and I decided to page through my notebook where I periodically write down some of my thoughts. To give you context: 2022 was my hardest year as an entrepreneur. I quit my engineering job in 2020

Build in Public: GoKiddo [Part 8]

Welcome back to my GoKiddo build in public journey. If you missed Part 7 , you can check it out here. Here’s a quick update about where I am at with GoKiddo. New Marketing Landing Page Firstly, why do I need a marketing site if I already built the app?