Friday Five

It is Friday 5pm somewhere.....time to log off and enjoy the weekend. In the meantime, enjoy a short but beautifully curated selection of randomness from around the web.




This week

1. A new podcast that I have been listening to in order to learn more about DevOps isDevOps Cafe Podcast In this interview driven show, John Willis and Damon Edwards take a pragmatic look at the technology, tools, and business developments behind the emerging DevOps movement.
2. For the horsey crowd, I am off to the Polo this weekend. The Millamolong Polo Club Country Classic April 16 & 17. Last year was awesome and I am looking forward to family fun day on Sunday.
3. 20 Aussie start ups that you should keep an eye on.
4. I keep seeing more an more articles on Trackr which seems a very useful and cost effective (ie cheap) way of tracking your stuff like cars and bikes. Of course it could just be that Google knows that I looked at one article and now promotes more articles.
5. I recently started following Maria Popova on twitter. Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People so said Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Blog post of the week

​Art and start ups

One of the start ups I have invested in has been going through a financial restructure as it is re capitalised. The start up is focused on the art market and it is not yet live so I can not reveal too much but this article is a very useful insight into the business model opportunity.


An exceptional auction house was born in 1744 in the heart of London on New Bond Street. That house built a revered tradition of uniting collectors with word-class works of art and marketing the world’s most cherished possessions. Now, almost three centuries after, Sotheby’s auction house is crumbling. The victims: approximately 250 auctions each year in over 70 categories. 1 “The unprecedented shakeup follows a losing battle with an activist investor, a change in leadership, and a pricey acquisition of an art advisory firm, and it puts the auctioneer in a dicey position just before one of its big sale seasons.


Read the full article here.

Projects

For articles articles on projects, you can read more here.

• Video: How to price your project
• Project delivery checklist
• PMO Project checklist​
• Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here.
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