The truth about advice
This Wednesday (September 26) my co-founder Johan and I held a company presentation at a forum hosted by General Assembly (the forum is titled Sydney Founders Exchange and has got the ambition to...
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Create an office you actually want to go to
Step by step we’re creating an office out of this leased space in Surry Hills, Sydney. It’s been four months since we moved here and we’ve allowed furnishing to gradually “just happen” rather than...
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Create a business out of your blog
Folks reading business and media blogs might have recently had to encounter my big mouth. Alongside Patty Huntington, Matthew Gain and Karla Courtney I was part of a panel hosted by Social Media Club...
View ArticleAustralia needs to get smart
Today we launched a beta version of the Sydney Stockholm blog (we’re relaunching the website before you know it). I inaugurated it by writing a post about how companies like Sydney Stockholm, our...
View ArticleErnest Hemingway quote
Try to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. Ernest Hemingway
View ArticleJournalists will come for us all
Scandinavian media group Schibsted released their third-quarter earnings on Wednesday. During the presentation Jan Helin, Editor-in-Chief of Schibsted-owned Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, stated that at...
View ArticleBucks to bank
Since I rarely manage to be straight forward and to the point myself, I appreciate this blog post by Björn Jeffrey. He says that you might gain from thinking about your firm in terms of a revenue...
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Why Zara is the world’s largest fashion retailer
Zara is a fast fashion phenomenon. With about 4,400 stores around the globe this empire is twice the size of Swedish H&M and no end is near; Zara is opening more than one new store every day or...
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With a drink in your hand, you can get a lot of work done
Before mainstream media even touched on the subject of Google’s business model and how the company make money, we all read stories about “cool Google”. The company offered employees free food (various...
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Talking loud to no one: Tina Brown, Andrew Sullivan and why Newsweek died
A new addition to my collection of historical magazines; the last print issue of Newsweek. After 79 years, 4150 printed issues, 21 covers featuring Jesus and 11 logo redesigns it has now been put to...
View ArticleYour monsters will help you make it
Prior to turning away from the security of a day job and into the wonderland of running your own business, you imagine a lot of positive scenarios. Some of them might even be your reasons for jumping...
View ArticleStuff worth your while, #1
Fifteen episodes in I found the podcast The New Disruptors. If you manage to ignore the fact that the name indicates some kind of powerpoint-pointlessness rather than quality listening – congrats. Host...
View ArticleChris Coyier quote
There’s no magic to getting things done. You sit and you do it. Chris Coyier
View ArticleWhy some of the best writing is to be found on the internet, and what I’ve...
As a digital publisher of any kind your most important content is not what you just put online, but everything else. While an article can travel the world through everything from Facebook to Flipboard,...
View ArticleFrockwriter to FELLT
Today everyone at Sydney Stockholm is proud to welcome Patty Huntington to blog network FELLT. Huntington is one of Australia’s most acclaimed fashion journalists. She is a heavy‐hitter, an acclaimed...
View ArticleBenjamin Franklin quote
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin
View ArticleE-commerce is not a nice-to-have add-on; it’s the core feature
Publishing and e-commerce; two phenomenons that’ve been trying to dance for a decade. They’re lovers and haters, dear friends and arch-enemies; to “sell out” is considered a dream scenario (for a...
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