Starting Again: Introducing Edzo
A poster on a classroom wall started Teach Starter. Now Jill and I are starting again with Edzo, a long-term home for education businesses.
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Pivoting Edzo Learning
Pivoting @EdzoLearning. More to come soon… The product is overly complex. The positioning is unclear. There are some great features that probably deserve to…
Introducing Edzo: Time to Go Again
Well... It's time to go again! Introducing @EdzoLearning Writing this story for Edzo brought up so many incredible memories of our journey with Teach Starter.…
The Magical Motivation of Progress and Traction
Ultimately, when I think about a startup, motivation is all that keeps the 1% chance of success alive.
Deciding On The Next Big Idea
If we all work equally as hard, with an equally skilled and dedicated team, with just the right timing and a sprinkling of luck, then what separates the million-dollar businesses from the billion-dollar businesses?
Living in an Asynchronous World
As it turns out, time travel featured in sci-fi hasn't come to pass. But don't write it off just yet... a different kind of time travel is right under our nose. Welcome to the asynchronous world.
How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky (Naval's Best Advice)
I am a huge fan of Naval Ravikant, the investor and founder of AngelList (among other things). His ability to distil a complex world into short, pithy…
Care More Than Your Competition
When we began Teach Starter, our only focus was on delivering value to our customers. That’s it. We knew our customer and we knew what they needed. So we…
Know Your Numbers
As a business owner your role is challenging and often all-encompassing. You’re required to wear many hats — seamlessly moving from product and marketing to…
The Myth of Setting Out To Change The World
As your ego grows and your success story is re-written, you give yourself permission to dream on a grander scale. The other day I read an interesting…
Can you start a business with little to no money?
The simple answer is yes. Now, are you ready to get to work? My wife and I had been dating barely six months when we had an ‘aha’ moment that culminated in…
5 Quick Takeaways from Five Years Growing a Business
It’s been five years since Jill and I launched Teach Starter. It all started with a mailing list and $2000 worth of Facebook ads. We decided early on that…
Why We Stopped Selling
Mindset is a beautiful thing. You can change your entire outlook by merely adjusting the way you think. When we launched Teach Starter, the only way I…
Two Years of Pain for a Lifetime of Gain
Jill and I had been dating for barely six months when the idea of Teach Starter materialised . Like most ideas upon inception, our initial enthusiasm was…
The Importance of Cultivating a Long Term Perspective
Last weekend, I spent time with some friends discussing their fledgling business. We talked at length about content and its role in developing their brand.…
The Day We Went All In On Content
If “content is king”, as Bill Gates famously proclaimed, why are so few businesses embracing it as a way to reach their customers? I can imagine that for…
Crave the Unscalable
(Cover photo: December, 2013 — Packing mailing tubes for Teach Starter’s free poster promotion in January.) Before Teach Starter ever existed, I always knew…
The ‘All or Nothing’ Startup Fallacy
Starting a business can be a scary proposition. The odds are overwhelmingly stacked against you. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics , more…
Letting Go of the Day to Day
For five years I spent all but a handful of days working on the development of the Teach Starter website. As technical co-founder, it was my job to…
