First-time Tech Entrepreneur
Rebekah Campbell is a music industry entrepreneur. She started out by organising a music festival to raise awareness of New Zealand’s youth suicide epidemic at the age of 19. In 2008, Rebekah came up with the idea for Posse.com whilst promoting a tour for Evermore. Rebekah raised over $3 million from investors Australia and Silicon Valley to kick-start the business. Posse.com launched in music in 2012 and in retail in 2012, with plans to expand to the United States later this year.
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The only mistake I regret: Important advice for start-up founders
Read MoreI've talked a lot in this blog about the mistakes I've made over the past couple of years, what I've learnt, and the ways I apply all this to how I run the company now.
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Three core qualities an entrepreneur needs
Read MoreLast weekend, I spoke at the National Student Leadership Forum in Canberra about entrepreneurship. Ambitious uni students, nominated to attend by their local MPs, packed the auditorium.
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This is actually working!
Read MoreIn these blogs, I tend to focus on problems, because challenges and mistakes occupy most of my time.
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Radical openness
Read MoreRecently, I bumped into a few people from my past who surprised me by knowing everything going on in my life by reading this blog.
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This is still really hard
Read MoreGod grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.'
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The pressure cooker effect: How we achieve amazing things under pressure
Read More“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.” – JFK, 1962.
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A framework for making creative decisions
Read MoreIf you've produced anything, you know that creative decision making is challenging. If a project is big, (for example a website or a record release) then the number of people involved increases and the stakes are higher to make good decisions.
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Fear and failure
Read MoreLast weekend I did the scariest thing I've done in my life. I spoke at TED.
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My seven pitching techniques: Part two
Read MoreIn part one of this series, Rebekah Campbell shared her first three sales techniques.
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My seven pitching techniques: Part one
Read MoreRight from the start I've pitched for investments, and pitched well.
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