make it happen

I wrote about Richy Sowa and his Spiral Island initiative last year in How to Make an Island and solve a few of the worlds problems. He had already made one amazing island from some 300,000 bottles, but it got destroyed by a hurricane, and last year in September, he had just started rebuilding... Well its just over a year on, and he now has...(Read more)

The Financials section of PlanHQ has remained the same for a while, and though it provides a simple way to keep  track of your financial data, we think it would be great if you could track more than just the default profitability for your financial data. So we're planning some changes which would allow you to track additional statistics on your finances along with data...(Read more)

Today our site had an unexpected outage from approximately 8pm till 9:50pm PST due to the failure of a power distribution unit with our hosting suppliers. The faulty unit has been replaced and the site is now running smoothly again, no data has been affected by this outage. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

It's been a full-on few months, and I've been operating in multi-venture mode using PlanHQ to switch between business and get a lot of stuff done. One of the most exciting things we've been working on over the ast few months is building and launching New Zealand's global business community - MadeFromNewZealand.com. While most of our customers and readers of this blog are in the US...(Read more)

At PlanHQ we're big on being small and lean. It's all about getting big results out of small high-powered teams. I did a presentation the other week on building a lightweight global business after being selected as the Wellington Regional Management Champion. The slides don't say it all, but I cover a few lightweight businesses I'm involved in building, and do the weigh-in on a...(Read more)