by Victoria Maclennan | Apr 11, 2016 | Ramblings on the world of Innovation
I have been chewing over the same blog post for a few weeks now, refining and refactoring it, adding links and more insights – only to realise it’s been a week and no post! Reality is this blog post has no deadline on it, there is no reason for the Panic...
by Victoria Maclennan | Mar 30, 2016 | Bootstrapping, Growth Business, Startup
A wise man once told me this: Life as a business owner is like walking up a escalator that is going down. To just stay in the same place you need to have momentum and energy, sometimes you slip down, other times you find yourself making a few steps of progress towards...
by Victoria Maclennan | Mar 15, 2015 | inspiring people
Sometime prior to Christmas I was co-opted to mentor a team for VentureUp, a young enterprise programme funded and run by Young Enterprise NZ, CreativeHQ, Victoria Uni and Wellington City Council. The teams consisted of students who had previously been involved in...
by Victoria Maclennan | Jan 27, 2015 | Bootstrapping, Life at OptimalHQ, Startup
Wouldn’t it be awesome if we all went through life on an even keel, no matter what happened it didn’t phase us? Equally wouldn’t it be awesome if Winston Churchill was right and success was actually going from failure to failure without losing...
by Victoria Maclennan | Dec 3, 2014 | Bootstrapping, Life at OptimalHQ, Startup
So you launched your company, started your startup and find you are now a CEO! awesome! best job in the world – or is it? Not everyone is cut out to be Founder and CEO of their company, many founders are brilliant at “doing the things their company...