Welcome! You may have read here before about the importance of storytelling for public speakers. It’s so important, in fact, that we’re making it our theme for this week. In the Fireside with Voxgig podcast, you’ll hear Doug Thompson talk to me about how he trains his sales staff in improvization skills in order to
Last week I covered the ‘Fundamental Equation of SaaS’. This is basically a business tool that lets you measure the health of your software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup. To grow new revenue you need to understand where it comes from – the equation helps you do that. The premise of this startup diary is that you can
Welcome to this week’s newsletter! In this issue, we’re taking a look at how perseverance and determination can play a crucial role in speakers’ careers and lives. Our Learn from the best section features Pat Caslin, who speaks about how illness and disability have led him to take a new, empowered perspective on life. One
Can you predict the success of a company based on a single mathematical equation? Considering how complex the factors are that determine success, you’d have to think it would be a pretty complex equation. Isaac Asimov, the great science fiction writer, took this one step further. In his ‘Foundation Series’ of novels, he suggested that
Welcome back and I hope 2019 is going well for you so far. Revisiting the basics of your chosen career is a useful thing to do every so often. In this week’s newsletter, Oscar Santolalla takes us back to what is possibly the most basic element in all our work: the language we speak in.
Our big goal for 2019 as a startup is to achieve a product-market fit. You’ll be able to follow this diary each week to see how we’re doing on that big goal, and in particular, how our product development decisions work out. Product-market fit is a term coined by the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. It’s
Happy new year to all our readers! I hope you had peaceful, restful holidays. Our theme for this first newsletter of 2019 is “developing your speaking style”. This may strike some of you as odd; after all, isn’t speaking style something you “just have”? Yes, your speaking style has a lot to do with your
The Christmas holidays are needed to relax and recharge in preparation for a new year of public speaking. I love the new year’s resolutions blog from Manner of Speaking and for a bit of inspiration we are using a talk from Inspirefest 2018. The podcast this week from Dylan Schiemann discusses why a speaker’s ability to
At this time of year people often say “I can hardly believe its Christmas / the end of another year already!” I’m no exception – I’m finding it hard to believe that voxgig has just about reached the end of its first full year in business! Huge thanks and credit are due to everyone in
The purpose of this diary is to document our decisions as a startup. There’s not much point doing that if we don’t review them afterwards. So how did we do in 2018? Did voxgig make good decisions? Let’s break things down by functional area to see how we did.
