When three be­come one

All small busi­ness ven­tures in­volve a large ele­ment of risk and un­cer­tainty. And for Par­ent Cor­por­a­tion in par­tic­u­lar, hav­ing of­fices spread across dif­fer­ent cit­ies and time zones only ad­ded to our early stage chal­lenges. So from today, we’re trim­ming right back. […]

You’ve got to find what you love

Now re­cog­nised as one of the great speeches of all time, here’s the full text com­mence­ment ad­dress given by Steve Jobs to Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity gradu­ates on 12th June 2005: I am honored to be with you today at your com­mence­ment from […]

Stay hungry, stay foolish

Steven P. Jobs, 19552011 You will be missed. Your pas­sion, vis­ion and at­ten­tion to de­tail has changed our world forever. You built the tools that un­locked the cre­ativ­ity of a gen­er­a­tion. Your leg­acy will live on [through us] for cen­tur­ies to come. […]

Do more, fail more, suc­ceed more

As men­tioned pre­vi­ously, this quiet little site is primar­ily a ven­ture into shar­ing our on­go­ing pro­gress at Par­ent Cor­por­a­tion. But equally, it’s an ex­er­cise in fail­ure. Al­low me to me ex­plain. A while ago I watched a pro­gramme doc­u­ment­ing the once rock­star status […]

Zero mo­ment of truth

It’s an ex­cit­ing time to be in­volved with on­line busi­ness. Many in­dustry ex­perts be­lieve the in­ter­net is start­ing to come of age, and gradu­ally evolve into the real in­ter­net. Briefly con­sider your own life a dec­ade ago, now com­pare your be­ha­viour […]