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Once a week. I live in Hong Kong where eating out is plentiful and compared to groceries, surprisingly similar in price.

SEEKING FREELANCER: Remote.

PROJECT: Help build an iOS fitness app.

MOTIVATION: Help build an automatic diary for your life.

SKILLS: iOS development. (objective-c, c++, cocoa etc) The project is called 'Legend' and our website is http://legendwearable.com. My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile (or email am@legendwearable.com). Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I'll try to get back to you.

I try to work on my startup on the side between a job and studying for a masters. I spend time on my company (an ecommerce based wearable startup) developing and shipping product.

The free time I have I use to run around Hong Kong Island where I live and elsewhere, in the university library reading various books.

Check out resources online like this and WarriorForum (warriorforum.com) - you can teach yourself online marketing (and sales) in your own time.

This is true. Like most human habits, once you establish routine, whatever it is you're doing becomes natural. Running is fantastic as all you need literally is a good pair of running shoes and you're good to go.

SEEKING FREELANCER

Location: Remote

Company: Loop (http://www.looparmband.com/)

Position: We are looking for a marketer; experience in the many aspects of online marketing is preferred.

Team: Loop is a group of people in Hong Kong, Seoul and Taipei. The mission of the team behind Loop is to contribute to the world by making things for the human body and to advance humankind. Health and Fitness together with Technology is in our DNA and it's where we do our best work.

Apply: Please email Alexander, am@looparmband.com.

Location: Remote

Company: Loop ( http://www.looparmband.com/)

Position: We are looking for a marketer; experience in the many aspects of online marketing is preferred.

Team: Loop is a group of people in Hong Kong, Seoul and Taipei. Our mission is to make things for the human body and advance humankind. Technology, sports and health is our dna.

Apply: Please email Alexander, am@looparmband.com.

I bought octopus.org with the idea of launching a non-profit. It turns out, I discovered that for-profit is a better model for my project so I redirect traffic from this url to theoctopusapp.com. Would love to buy octopus.com if I had the funds.

SEEKING FREELANCER: Marketer (remote).

PROJECT: Help build an iOS classifieds app.

MOTIVATION: Making it easier to sell your stuff. (and to a lesser extent, discover new stuff to buy)

SKILLS: Digital marketing e.g. email marketing, social media, pr etc plus analytical skills e.g. google analytics. The project is called 'Octopus' and our website is theoctopusapp.com. My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I'll try to get back to you.

I'm in this club with Octopus, though my app won't exactly find you a date. (but will hopefully help you sell stuff)

I was there and also enjoyed Paul's talk. I thought Alfred Lin made some really thoughtful comments too. From both talks, for me it was clear that one really has to push boundaries and do stuff other people don't think is possible in order to have an impact.

Thanks for the comment. Do you know or recommend anyone in particular?

Thanks for the advice.

Thanks for the advice. I know what you're saying regarding the landing page, it's spartan at best. (what can I say, I'm a minimalist)

If you've done any design work or at least contributed in some way to a creative project you could try http://behance.net. Alternatively, http://github.com would be your best bet if you've done mostly back-end work.

For anything community related, I always read up at feverbee.com. The guy behind it is also worth contacting, extremely knowledgeable.

I would recommend a limited company. I started a SAAS service (http://usehuman.com) for fun but also to learn about the economics/technical side of the business. Whilst I developed the product as a hobby, once I began charging, I decided incorporating would be best.

If anything, incorporating it not just about better bookkeeping, it means you are committed. Companies (or individuals for that matter) buying your software need re-assurance that they can rely on you.

Incorporating also doesn't mean you are tied to one particular product, it gives you a platform to launch several products if that's what works for you.

SEEKING FREELANCER: Marketer (remote).

PROJECT: Help build an iOS classifieds app.

MOTIVATION: Making it easier to sell your stuff. (and to a lesser extent, discover new stuff to buy)

SKILLS: Digital marketing e.g. email marketing, social media, pr etc plus analytical skills e.g. google analytics. The project is called 'Octopus' and our website is theoctopusapp.com. My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I'll try to get back to you.

I use Google Bookmarks - http://www.google.com/bookmarks - and a bookmarklet in chrome.

Business development in most cases i.e sales of ads, licenses or whichever unit(s) they use to make revenue.

Octopus (theoctopusapp.com)

An app to sell anything. Inspired by the Octopus payment system in Hong Kong, I've reasoned that technically, why can you buy or sell anything with your mobile device.

> London has 5 airports; there is also the Eurostar.

This. Personally, I think the parts of the world that will perform best in the future century and beyond are those that are the most connected. It's notable that London plus NYC, Dubai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Sydney etc are economically speaking doing extremely well - it's no co-incidence they are also very well connected.

Frequent marketing communities like moz.org, inbound.org, warriorforum etc and find a talented marketer. Reaching out is often a difficult but necessary thing to do.

Looks like big oil is shorting renewables again rightly or wrongly. There can't be any denying how quickly coal and gas are growing, likewise how renewables has had a shakedown in the last few years.

What is intriguing however is just how big oil - BP, Shell, Exxon etc - are really going to move away from the fossil cash cows in the future when the stuff gets too expensive to extract or when everyone moves onto something else.

Definitely, renewables is a huge opportunity for new entrants, possibly the biggest economic opportunity in business today in many ways given what's at stake.

I'd be surprised if these aren't already deployed. I visited a logistics trade fair in Stuttgart and was impressed with the concept. That said, it will work for things in the "library" aka small goods, but let's see how they scale these up to deal with pallet sized goods. I've got no doubt they will, though developing these machines will not be cheap.

I get you re. hot air and chargers. At work, folks happen to 'lose' their USB chargers all of the time and tend to complain.

I like what http://powermat.com are doing but again there's the feeling you know, will consumers adopt it?

Thanks for the story. I'm playing around with the idea of developing a case, with either a built-in battery or solar, that will help charge your phone.

The problem with solar is the lack of energy density obviously and like you say, mention the word 'battery' in a accessory and folks get turned off.

Both also have the problem we've mention i.e it adds weight and makes your device look bad. The reason I'm thinking about developing this is less about recharging devices and more about doing away with chargers altogether.

Would people pay for something that's better than wireless charging and does away with chargers altogether? Assuming battery and solar technology gets to this point in the future, quite possibly. Then again, the folks at Apple and Samsung are probably already on it.

Yeah, that's what most people I talk to think also. 30-40% remaining battery is probably about average, I'm definitely in that range also.

In simplistic terms, doing a startup whilst employed elsewhere is probably a bad idea on a number of levels. That said, i'm doing it; though I'm working on 'projects', not startups. (I've also formed a ltd (llc) umbrella company with it's own bank account so I can properly account for savings I invest in my ideas)

My first project is Octopus (http://www.theoctopusapp.com) whilst I've also just started my second, Solarshell. I'm not sure one can do more than two projects at any-time but then again, the likes of Musk and others seem to make multiple things work.

SEEKING FREELANCER: Marketer (remote).

PROJECT: Help build an iOS classifieds app.

MOTIVATION: Making it easier to sell your stuff. (and to a lesser extent, discover new stuff to buy)

SKILLS: Digital marketing e.g. email marketing, social media, pr etc plus analytical skills e.g. google analytics. The project is called 'Octopus' and our temporary website is at octopus.org. My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I'll try to get back to you.