Peter Tanham

Yesterday was my last day as a product manager for Vodafone Ireland. After almost 5 years I’m moving on to start up my own company. Although my reasons are ultimately the same as others who make the switch, I’ve written this post to explain my personal thought process that led to the decision. I Could [...]

This is where I draw the distinction between the Inventor and the Innovator. The inventor creates the new idea, but it’s often the innovator that brings it to market. Without the inventor we would have no new thoughts, but without the innovator those new thoughts might never reach people to provide a benefit.

I was going to call this post “How Darwin could help us out of this recession” in honour of his 200th Birthday today. Apologies in advance for the length, but I hope it’s worth it. The last book I finished reading was Richard Dawkins‘ The Extended Phenotype. It was fantastic. Although it has given my [...]

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. That’s one of my favourite Warren Buffett quotes. I’ve learned a lot from him (indirectly, of course), not just about investing but about business and life in general. For those of you who don’t know him, he’s the richest man in the world, [...]

I enjoy reading Seth Godin’s blog. He often has really clever insights and ideas about marketing and business, and his books are very good too. Recently he wrote a post entitled Hungry. An excerpt: By any traditional definition of the word, she wasn’t actually hungry. She didn’t need more fuel to power her through an [...]