INGRID RILEY

On Living, Being an Entrepreneur and Doing Business in the Digital Age

Reid Hoffman’s 10 Rules for Entrepreneurial Success

Here are Hoffman’s top mandates for entrepreneurs: 1. Be disruptive. Ask yourself: “Is this massive and different? It’s got to be ten-times different. It’s got to be something that changes an industry.” Hoffman uses Skype as an example, calling it a disruptive company because, “it removes these very expensive cross barrier phone charges.” 2. Aim [...]

What is a Startup?

To be a startup, a company has to be a product business, not a service business. By which I mean not that it has to make something physical, but that it has to have one thing it sells to many people, rather than doing custom work for individual clients. Custom work doesn’t scale. To be [...]

What is….

…your platform, your point of view and your mission? Who can you frighten, what can you learn, how can you go faster, what sort of legacy are you creating?”…Questions inspired by….this blog post. I’ve understood and been using my platform…internet,media, events…for over 10 years….my point of view has sharpened and evolved…and my mission is super [...]

Ever Been Called A Failure? You’re In Good Company

When you grow up in a family who’ve known only a 9-5 work culture and mistakes your entrepreneurial spirit of trying out your ideas as being directionless and careless…you can easily slap yourself with the label a failure and lose your nerve. I almost did…until I read somewhere that failure is part of the process, [...]

Had an expensive morning…no car…no Blackberry…here’s what I learnt

I woke up feeling great this morning. Ready to tackle my to do list and to put the final touches on SiliconCaribe.TV for release in Open BETA later this evening. Then it started to happen…my phone, a Digicel Blackberry Bold 2 that was plugged in to charge overnight, went into boot up mode…after a single [...]

When Are you going to Start Something?

Getting comfortable with Failure

Failures along the way? Definitely. That’s part of what it means to move forward. If you can’t get comfortable with failure as part of your journey, SUCCESS will always elude you. Fail Fast, learn the lesson and move on. See this video on Vator.tv »

What I hope the Club Billionaire at Utech really means

I’ll be speaking at Club Billionaire at the University of Technology(Utech) today which is also my alma mater. Club Billionaire describes itself as  “ an extra-curricular entrepreneurship club focused on training young minds at the university level on how to be successful entrepreneurs and how to develop the much needed practical skills which are crucial [...]

Samsung Mobile, Slash Roots Developers and SiliconCaribe TV

These Three beautiful S words…Samsung Mobile Caribbean because my company ConnectiMass just landed them as a Digital Marketing Client, Slash Roots, because it’s a Software Developers Conference held in Jamaica last weekend, that was started by my nephew Matthew McNaughton and his peers, was super successful and I interviewed him about the people, the apps, [...]

Eight Entrepreneur Attributes You Can’t Fake

Business success begins in the mind of the startup founder and his team. A winning startup is a team of entrepreneurs who build and run the business as an extension of who they are, rather than some extrapolation of the Google or Facebook model. It’s not so easy to fake the important attributes when the [...]

What is this blog about?

I had put up this blog initially simply to grab my domain name before someone else did. The whole thing was about protecting my personal brand online. I figured if I preached it and did it for my clients, then I must be an example too. Since then, I’ve been updating it when I want [...]

The Mindset of a Winner by Seth Godin




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