For the last two months, we have been running a very successful pilot with HopShopper, our digital loyalty card platform. We deployed to 8 cafes and food outlets around Sydney CBD and, in all honesty, it’s been going better than we expected. After going through the exercise of designing, developing and deploying our first product [...]
If you have an idea for an iPhone application and you think that there is a market for it, please don’t rush out to invest your hard earned cash and jump into development. You can use some really simple and effective tools to validate a need for your application and get a feel for the [...]
![[Startup Digest] Sydney edition](http://www.paddlinglikemad.com/wp-content/themes/typebased/thumb.php?src=http://www.paddlinglikemad.com/wp-content/woo_uploads/14-startup.jpg&h=100&w=100&zc=1&q=90)
The simple and acclaimed Startup Digest (@StartupDigest) that sprung out of Silicon Valley, got featured on TechCrunch, and grew to 15,000 subscribers has reached Sydney! Check it out here: http://www.thestartupdigest.com . I’m the curator (read: free labour) for the Sydney digest- some friends in the Valley gave me the heads up about it and I thought, [...]
Since the release of the iPhone, things have radically shifted in the mobile space. This is the first phone to effectively and massively across the globe allow people to stay online almost all the time. Being always online is something mobile industry has been having wet dreams about for a very long time. And it’s [...]
I’ve been looking around for a list like this for some time now. Jonathan has really done a great job with this one and my ferry trips are even more interesting now :) Read the post here
Make sure you don’t miss this great give-away by Zappos. Tribal Leadership authors have teamed up with Zappos and released a completely free audio book. There are some really interesting theories about leadership, different types of human tribes and human endeavour in general. Download the audio book here: http://about.zappos.com/tribal
Over the past few months I really got sucked into the wealth of information on startups coming primarily out of the Silicon Valley. It’s very inspiring, sobering and educational and I would recommend everyone spend a couple of weeks reading up on what other people who’ve been there and done it have to say. It [...]
This is a personal blog about my life as an entrepreneur. I currently live and work in Sydney, Australia. Current project: HopShopper.If you enjoyed the post, make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed.
© 2010 Paddling Like Mad. All Rights Reserved.
Developed by 
Green Tea Media
