Meet Bryce, A Sydney Entrepreneur's Website http://meetbryce.com Most recent posts at Meet Bryce, A Sydney Entrepreneur's Website posterous.com Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:18:56 -0800 Overcoming obstacles (warning: contains nerdy content) http://meetbryce.com/overcoming-obstacles-warning-contains-nerdy-c http://meetbryce.com/overcoming-obstacles-warning-contains-nerdy-c There is always a sense of satisfaction that can be drawn from circumventing rules and finding a way against the odds. For the last few months we've been battling with a payment form layout that was very restrictive and didn't have a very good default layout. After consulting with our suppliers' normally very helpful staff, we were told there was no work around for a core issue (being forced to take billing address details upon payment). The friction created was hampering the quality of the pages and didn't look particularly credible. The reason it was forced is that the supplied is calfornia based and in the USA it's compulsory to collect a postal address with any credit card. Perfectly justified, but a real pain in the backside here in oz. After a discussion throwing around ideas with Peter Moriarty from IT Genius we found a work around, auto fill the field with a value of null so the form parses then set all the fields to display:none and it's all sorted. So the reason I'm posting this is that there's a certain level of satisfaction and pride in putting that together. I guess I just wanted I share my nerdy victory.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:00:00 -0800 Does Money Stifle Creativity? http://meetbryce.com/does-money-stifle-creativity http://meetbryce.com/does-money-stifle-creativity

According to Fast Company magazine and a study by MIT, paying people to be creative or productive is often counter productive.

The MIT study offered three levels of monetary incentive correlating to the level of success. When the system was tested against menial, mechanical tasks the incentives worked exceptionally well.

However, once even even a slight amount of cognition was needed, the larger the reward the worse the participants performed. This has been tested over and over. The findings the same, every time.

 

Now the lesson here is not to stop rewarding creative tasks financially. The idea here is to inspire you to search outside your payroll and equity holders for creative input once in a while.

Your customers are not paid to be visionary.

Get input from them. 

Ask them early in the process though and pull together the contextual information to properly evaluate their input.

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Where has your best creative input come from?

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:00:00 -0800 Is your startup idea a jumping pony? http://meetbryce.com/is-your-startup-idea-a-jumping-pony http://meetbryce.com/is-your-startup-idea-a-jumping-pony

Have you ever seen a business pitch that was brilliant? Have you ever seen a business pitch that was incredibly interesting, creative and clever yet lacked something and left you wondering "... but why?"

All to often early stage entrepreneurs (I've definitely been guilty of this) make a crucial mistake. Entrepreneurs of all levels of experience forget once in a while, and forget to ask the market a simple set of questions.

  • Is there a reason to create your product?
  • Do people want your product?
  • Is there a problem your product solves?

Don't go to market with a product without defining the problem you solve.

Think of it this way; why would you teach your pony to jump if nobody wants a jumping pony?

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:00:00 -0800 So you're thinking about raising capital? http://meetbryce.com/so-youre-thinking-about-raising-capital http://meetbryce.com/so-youre-thinking-about-raising-capital

As a seed stage business, it is often tempting to raise money to give you business a kick start. More money means more options, right?

What experts such as Mark Suster believe, as well as myself, is that there is a fine line between enough capital and too much capital. Especially in the seed stage.

Think about it this way: Let's treat the capital as rocket fuel and your business as a rocket. 

If you add too much rocket fuel and light it up, it's going to move incredibly quickly in the direction it's aiming.

As a seed stage business you don't really know where to aim it. To use an analogy of Stuart Cook's: Your business is like a kid that doesn't know what they want to be when they grow up.

If you take large investment you will: 

  • feel pressured
  • lose options and agility
  • end up with undervalued equity and over-dilution long-term

Not everyone needs seed capital.

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:00:00 -0800 Business relationships can end in divorce too. http://meetbryce.com/business-relationships-can-lead-to-divorce-to http://meetbryce.com/business-relationships-can-lead-to-divorce-to

Throughout the resources available to entrepreneurs, there is an underlying belief. Starting a business with co-founders improves your chances of success. This claim is almost invariably backed up by a statistic around the large percentage of fortune 100 companies being started by 4 or more persons.

I'm not here to debate whether starting a business with a co-founder is a good idea.

Personally, I think it depends on your working style. If having a business partner is likely to drive the growth of your business and motivate you and lead to a synergistic relationship, it's probably a wise choice. However, if you work well alone and a good at bringing in the key skill sets to drive your business' growth at the appropriate time, you may be better off alone.

What I'm here to say is that you should be VERY careful who you choose as your co-founders.

At the point of founding a company, the path for the life of the business is almost entirely decided. At this point, your share can be diluted more than at any other investment point.

As such you needs to choose very wisely the entrepreneur or entrepreneurial manager you bring on as a co-founder.

Think about these key areas:
- How much time do they have?
- How much experience do they have?
- How well do you work together?
- How much of an overlap in expertise is there?
- How much value do they bring to the table (objectively speaking)?
- Are they as passionate as you?
- Are your personalities complimentary?
- Are they in this for the long haul?

When it comes to founding the company, ensure you do it properly. Be sure to include 'divorce clauses' so that you have the right (and so do they) to regain equity if certain things happen.

These clauses prevent people from putting in little to no work and reaping an unfair reward. All within the bounds of the law.

Remember, choose your partners carefully!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:03:00 -0800 Bryce Summerell According To Jung http://meetbryce.com/bryce-summerell-according-to-jung http://meetbryce.com/bryce-summerell-according-to-jung

Ever wanted to get to know yourself a little better? Wouldn't it be great if someone could help articulate your personality and demonstrate your strengths and weaknesses so you know where to focus. Click the like at the end of this post to take a personality test that will no doubt surprise you. Best of all, it's not a bunch of truisms that apply to everyone in one way or another. Get to know yourself a little better.

As for me, see below:

As an ISFJ, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you takes things in via your five senses in a literal, concrete fashion. Your secondary mode is external, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit into your personal value system.

ISFJs live in a world that is concrete and kind. They are truly warm and kind-hearted, and want to believe the best of people. They value harmony and cooperation, and are likely to be very sensitive to other people's feelings. People value the ISFJ for their consideration and awareness, and their ability to bring out the best in others by their firm desire to believe the best.

ISFJs have a rich inner world that is not usually obvious to observers. They constantly take in information about people and situations that is personally important to them, and store it away. This tremendous store of information is usually startlingly accurate, because the ISFJ has an exceptional memory about things that are important to their value systems. It would not be uncommon for the ISFJ to remember a particular facial expression or conversation in precise detail years after the event occured, if the situation made an impression on the ISFJ.

ISFJs have a very clear idea of the way things should be, which they strive to attain. They value security and kindness, and respect traditions and laws. They tend to believe that existing systems are there because they work. Therefore, they're not likely to buy into doing things in a new way, unless they're shown in a concrete way why its better than the established method.

ISFJs learn best by doing, rather than by reading about something in a book, or applying theory. For this reason, they are not likely to be found in fields which require a lot of conceptual analysis or theory. They value practical application. Traditional methods of higher education, which require a lot of theorizing and abstraction, are likely to be a chore for the ISFJ. The ISFJ learns a task best by being shown its practical application. Once the task is learned, and its practical importance is understood, the ISFJ will faithfully and tirelessly carry through the task to completion. The ISFJ is extremely dependable.

The ISFJ has an extremely well-developed sense of space, function, and aesthetic appeal. For that reason, they're likely to have beautifully furnished, functional homes. They make extremely good interior decorators. This special ability, combined with their sensitivity to other's feelings and desires, makes them very likely to be great gift-givers - finding the right gift which will be truly appreciated by the recipient.

More so than other types, ISFJs are extremely aware of their own internal feelings, as well as other people's feelings. They do not usually express their own feelings, keeping things inside. If they are negative feelings, they may build up inside the ISFJ until they turn into firm judgments against individuals which are difficult to unseed, once set. Many ISFJs learn to express themselves, and find outlets for their powerful emotions.

Just as the ISFJ is not likely to express their feelings, they are also not likely to let on that they know how others are feeling. However, they will speak up when they feel another individual really needs help, and in such cases they can truly help others become aware of their feelings.

The ISFJ feels a strong sense of responsibility and duty. They take their responsibilities very seriously, and can be counted on to follow through. For this reason, people naturally tend to rely on them. The ISFJ has a difficult time saying "no" when asked to do something, and may become over-burdened. In such cases, the ISFJ does not usually express their difficulties to others, because they intensely dislike conflict, and because they tend to place other people's needs over their own. The ISFJ needs to learn to identify, value, and express their own needs, if they wish to avoid becoming over-worked and taken for granted.

ISFJs need positive feedback from others. In the absence of positive feedback, or in the face of criticism, the ISFJ gets discouraged, and may even become depressed. When down on themselves or under great stress, the ISFJ begins to imagine all of the things that might go critically wrong in their life. They have strong feelings of inadequacy, and become convinced that "everything is all wrong", or "I can't do anything right".

The ISFJ is warm, generous, and dependable. They have many special gifts to offer, in their sensitivity to others, and their strong ability to keep things running smoothly. They need to remember to not be overly critical of themselves, and to give themselves some of the warmth and love which they freely dispense to others.

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Do you know me well? Is this who I am? Is this who I was?

Leave a comment and then go do the test for yourself.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:28:50 -0700 Mind The Step - A Physics Tip For The Startup Entrepreneur http://meetbryce.com/mind-the-step-a-physics-tip-for-the-startup-e http://meetbryce.com/mind-the-step-a-physics-tip-for-the-startup-e
As physics says every action has an equal and opposite reaction. For entrepreneurs, this can be paraphrased into a business adage.

"Every extra step will have an increasing and negative reaction"

It's commonly said that simple products are often the best, this mainly refers to physical products. 

In the world of the tech-entrepreneur our product must be simple to use!

In a literal sense, steps should be a tool to minimize the effort required to move upwards. Imagine a 1m (3ft) high step, it would be pretty hard to use, now imagine 100 steps in order to get to the same spot. If there are too many steps though, it becomes more a hinderance than a useful tool.

This translates to a web startup: If you can make it take one click to sign up instead of four. Do it!

I spent a meeting yesterday focused entirely on simplifying the sign up and usage steps of our product. It will mean completely restructuring our product but our customers will have to do less, to achieve more. An essential part of a great product in my eyes.

Meeting adjourned,
 Bryce Summerell

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:40:00 -0700 The Ultimate Catalyst - The 8 Steps For An Entrepreneur To Take Tonight http://meetbryce.com/the-ultimate-catalyst-the-8-steps-for-an-entr http://meetbryce.com/the-ultimate-catalyst-the-8-steps-for-an-entr

The internet is the entrepreneurial catalyst that will make or break you. Thanks to the internet everything is made bigger, happens faster and is over quicker than ever before.

However, the rules haven't changed just the mastery required in order to win the game. 

So here are 8 steps to winning the game.

  1. Be First
    • Stop waiting for a sign and take action. Right now.
  2. Have a motivation that isn't money.
    • The greatest successes were motivated by something bigger than money, even if it was just getting girls (Mark?)
  3. Put it together don't grow it
    • Success is no longer about creating something from nothing, this is a time where the greatest entrepreneurs are those that can see the pieces scattered throughout today and unite them as one new product tomorrow*
  4. Have a team
    • You will never be the master of everything. Be the master of finding those that are better than you and welcoming them to the breeding ground of your vision. The best hire people smarter than them.
  5. Make people care
    • Give people a reason to give a damn about you and your idea.
  6. Be cool**
    • People tell people about things that are cool and that is why you've never seen a TV advertisement about Facebook.
  7. Forget where you're from
    • The fact I'm an entrepreneur from Sydney doesn't matter anymore, everything is globalised.
  8. Remember everything is public
    • Stop hiding behind privacy settings, if you do it they'll know. Change the behaviour, not the settings.

*This is merely a figure of speech, success may happen over night but it is manifest of a much longer period.
**As a company, not as a person

Meeting Adjourned,
 Bryce Summerell

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:26:58 -0700 Personal Branding; how to brand, market and sell yourself as an entrepreneur http://meetbryce.com/personal-branding-how-to-brand-market-and-sel http://meetbryce.com/personal-branding-how-to-brand-market-and-sel
Define yourself, in a 30 second soundbite, this needs to be so simple you can say it at gunpoint if you're woken at 3 AM.

For myself; "I am an entrepreneur who is passionate about teaching people and connecting them with myself and others"

Now you know who you are, does everyone else know and agree that this is your identity?

Now you need to communicate this to everyone. So what is the difference between branding marketing and sales? All too often, myself included, we talk about marketing our business when really we're selling, or talk about working on our branding but really it's just our marketing.

Selling - Say you're talking to a fellow Sydney Entrepreneur about yourself and your 30 seconds at 3 AM. You're selling them your identity

Marketing - Say you're able to communicate indirectly with a large number of Sydney Entrepreneurs about your identity through a mailing list or some other marketing challenge. You're marketing your identity to your target market.

Branding - Say you go and take a course or read a book that improves the parts of yourself that match your 30 seconds at midnight. Everyone notices the change and your identity shines through. You just improved your branding.

So what are you going to focus on?

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:01:00 -0700 Date Better. Date Smarter. Daterate.com.au http://meetbryce.com/date-better-date-smarter-dateratecom http://meetbryce.com/date-better-date-smarter-dateratecom

DateRate entrepreneurs Bryce Summerell, Carlo Del Fabbro, Gabe Hollombe & Helen Hung. Seems Australian entrepreneurship is finally getting the exposure it deserves.

DateRate

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Date rate honest anonymous feedback logo

 

 

 

In less than 72 hours we created and have a startup to be proud of.

Here comes a dating revolution. Sydney, Australia has all the potential of Silicon Valley it seems.

date rate on the Sydney Morning Herald front page, picture includes Bryce Summerell, Carlo Del Fabbro & Gabe Hollombe

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:23:00 -0700 The 'Bring out Sir Richard Branson' Mexican Wave at The Ultimate Success Summit http://meetbryce.com/the-bring-out-sir-richard-branson-mexican-wav http://meetbryce.com/the-bring-out-sir-richard-branson-mexican-wav

The energy was down, patience was running out and after nearly 24 hours of speakers (including the amazing Tony Robbins) over two days. Everyone wanted to see Sir Richard Branson.

This wave was started by just a handful of people, good friends of mine.

 

Filmed from the floor by Bryce Summerell (unedited) from MeetBryce and ACES UTS

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:46:51 -0700 New Goals: Life Changes after my ESCEM Business School experience in France http://meetbryce.com/new-goals-life-changes-after-my-escem-busines http://meetbryce.com/new-goals-life-changes-after-my-escem-busines
Everyone has heard of smart goals, how many of us know what it originally represented.

Specific
Measurable
Accountable
Realistic
Timely

People so often forget to make themselves accountable for their goals. As such I am showing mine to the world, that way they can hold me to them. So after three eye opening weeks in France, here are my goals to change my life for the better.
  1. Focus on one business idea at a time
  2. Be more social, meet more people outside of business networking
  3. Go get bread first thing in the morning. Get out of the house, get breakfast and get a little exercise early in the day.
  4. Work on improving conversational French
  5. Experiment more with cooking at home. Chou Pastry + cheese for example
  6. Seek more knowledge training opportunities
  7. Get back into shape (put on 6-7kg of muscle and lose 2-3kg of fat)
  8. Stop using the computer after midnight (give eyes a rest and show body it's time for sleep)
  9. Stay in contact with Steph, Bee, Bec, Marie and Gaeton
  10. Build up knowledge and presence of/in the fashion industry
  11. Do Jack's entrepreneurship course
  12. Work out and do what is necessary to mentor in South Africa
  13. Do a presentation skills course
  14. Do an NLP course to improve business negotiation & management skills
  15. Get second job, in retail to improve sales and fashion skills.
  16. Remember the rule, friends don't tit-for-tat

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Sun, 30 May 2010 20:58:43 -0700 Does Advertising Annoy You? http://meetbryce.com/does-advertising-annoy-you http://meetbryce.com/does-advertising-annoy-you Do you mute during television commercials (TVCs)? 

Are you one of the roughly 60% of internet users who block ads?

There's three factors that contribute choosing where to seek information. They are:
  1. Information
  2. Emotion
  3. Interactivity
The first, information is self explanatory and has been a factor for all of time. 

Emotion on the other hand is a newer addition. When seeking information we now seek to be emotionally engaged, often through a heart felt and engaging association with our core values. In advertising today, this factor is best addressed in TVCs. Values such as compassion, safety and family are in my opinion the most prevalent.

Interactivity emerged out of the information age. Online advertising evolved from crude flashing banners to interactive flash ads with an element of fun involved (eg. shoot the targets to win). This has now evolved a little further to advertising that can offer more information with a little interaction.

Yet there is still very little integration between the three. The old adage "Fast, good cheap. Pick two" has been applied here for a long time.

I feel that this no longer going to be good enough. If advertisers want us to engage with their message they need to take all three, then add something new. The currency of this age is attention, they have to earn it.

In time, the huge amounts of information being collected by Google and Facebook will hopefully result in advertising that I actually want to see. I occasionally see Facebook advertising about areas of interest to me (stand up comedy in Sydney, for example). Yet the vast majority of advertising is horribly targeted. 

I long for the day when advertising is interesting and worth my time. 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Thu, 27 May 2010 21:19:00 -0700 My First Posterous Post http://meetbryce.com/my-first-posterous-post-1327 http://meetbryce.com/my-first-posterous-post-1327

After reading this article about Posterous vs. Tumblr, I decided to finally create an account to boost my blogging presence.

Basically, Posterous won because it can post to Tumblr, making Tumblr redundant. I can also post out to my Blogger and auto-update my social media profiles to automatically tell everyone what I'm blogging about.

No this isn't an ad for posterous! The next best thing about Posterous is that I can post directly via email and everything else is done automatically. No matter where I am, as long as I have internet (or 3G) access I can blog when I feel inspired.

So now I will be updating my blog much more regularly than before.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Sat, 08 May 2010 01:04:00 -0700 Written/Spoken Minimalism http://meetbryce.com/writtenspoken-minimalism http://meetbryce.com/writtenspoken-minimalism
Boring heartless lawyers. Ignorant smokers. These are just some of the more acceptable stereotypes people create in order to categorise people. In this incredibly complicated world, people have to simplify things in order to understand and remember them.

Today I'd like to dig a little deeper into the simplification of the spoken and written word. In the process of proving my point, my entire speech will be structured so that your average 12 year old could understand.

I have a lot to say. I don't have much time or space. I don't want to talk quickly. I refuse to use numbers to represent words. I am a twitter user.

I must choose my words carefully. I can't stack words to build meaning. One adjective is all I get.

We live in an information overload.  Why do many academics explode the simple into a complex network of details? Why am I told about things that aren't relevant? Why must people make things complicated to sound intelligent?

To paraphrase Gladwell, having too much information will often impair the accuracy of a judgement.

I propose to you a system focused on the simple. A thin-slice of facts and concepts (thanks Malcolm). I propose the twitter world.

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NB: This was written as an application for a 3 minute TED talk.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Thu, 06 May 2010 06:49:00 -0700 Entrepreneurial Meet Up http://meetbryce.com/entrepreneurial-meet-up http://meetbryce.com/entrepreneurial-meet-up
Last night I spent 3 hours watching TED* talks, the time flew by and it was soon 3am.

I also knew I had to get up at 0730. Two things got me out of bed.
  1. Knowing that I had a great opportunity/event to attend
  2. Knowing I can survive on that little sleep (thanks to Christian's ebook)
Sean and I went to the event and met 4 out of about 15 entrepreneurs, we were there for 3.5 hours. Two of which will probably end up talking at future ACES events.

I got so much out of this few hours talking to such driven and successful people. I look forward to meeting more people and learning more about the people I met today. I made contacts that will help me propel a business idea I came up with at 3am last Saturday night.

It was a meetup.com organised networking opportunity at a coffee club just on the other side of town hall. For more info look here.

*For those of you who don't know what TED is, click here! To put it simply TED takes the best ideas of the world and gets the thought leader to explain it in 20 minutes. It's recorded and the best are uploaded to be watched for free.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:54:00 -0800 One Second At A Time http://meetbryce.com/one-second-at-a-time http://meetbryce.com/one-second-at-a-time
"This is your life, and it's ending one second at a time."

There's no rainchecks in life, you only live once and there's no respawns. So now is the time to take action. Take your life and look at it, without excuses and evaluate it.

Ask yourself, 'Am I happy?'.

Look at what you want out of life, think about who you want to be, what you want to achieve and where you want to end up in five years. Work out how you're going to get there. If you're still young and don't have a family, don't be afraid to make radical decisions. Even if they're bad choices, you'll bounce back, learn and have sa great story on the other side. So if your job isn't getting you closer to where you want to be or you hate your job or even hate yourself. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Now is the moment to do it. So stop waking up, sitting on the couch all day cruising facebook and eating food that's worse for your health than eating the packaging.

So stand up and make something of your life, because nobody else is going to do that for you.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1451352/________IMG_1859B_W.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AGiAzCTuNR7 Bryce Summerell Meetbryce Bryce Summerell Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:31:00 -0800 Looking Good Pt 1 http://meetbryce.com/looking-good-pt-1 http://meetbryce.com/looking-good-pt-1
Alright everyone, so we all know the basics of personal grooming and what not but I figure I'll throw a few interesting rules and tips I've come across that would be useful or entertaining.

Chapped lips? Grab your tooth brush and run it under hot water and lightly brush over your lips and the dead skin will flake off no worries. Then just put a lip gloss or chap stick over the top and you're ready to roll.

Think your grooming is good? Would you lick your finger after rubbing it behind your ear? Two questions, one answer.

If you're a guy and you can never get your facial hair to grow evenly, find yourself either an artist (soft) pencil or a make up pencil (mum/sister's) and mark a line that way. Use the old 'chippie' (carpenter) trick of setting the length of the gap from tip to grip and follow your jawline. Works like a dream.

When trying to shave a line, leave the part you want left long until after you've clean shaven everything else. Reduces your chance of messing up.

Guys and girls who use disposable razors, they'll last up to twice as long if you dry them with a hair dryer after you use them and keep them somewhere dry.* (This prevents micro rusting which dulls the blade)

Guys, some girls like facial hair, some don't. No girl likes a neck beard.

Part two will probably not follow for a while, more research is in order. Feel free to add your own tips for others in the comments.
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What is the best way to get the guy/girl? The answer is really quite simple, it's a matter of lifestyle. I'm not talking you need 100k in the bank and a self managing business pulling in the cash and a penthouse on the habour. What I'm talking about is hobbies, interests, friends, skills, goals and aspirations.

If you want people to be attracted to you, your lifestyle needs to be one they want to be a part of. It's not complicated, if you show that being close to you will make them happier and or better off, they'll want to be around you. This works with friends as well as intimate relationships.

So think about what you want out of life in the long run, write down some goals for the future (when you grow up, so to speak). And work out what you need to do now and tomorrow to move towards them. There's goals and aspirations covered.

Friends, will come when you sort out the other elements. Best quick hint to meeting people I can give, smile.

Hobbies and interests, what do you spend your free time doing? Make it something more interesting than chilling on facebook. Then find a way to make sure it sounds interesting, it's all about the frame you put it in. Example, 'I play video games' isn't very interesting but if you reword it to 'I play online video games, I love the competition. It's kind of built into a guy's brain that working on something that has levels of achievement is fun.'

Skills, that's pretty simple. Find something and get good at it. My skillset of choice is massage as an example. 

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