Two Volunteers become Employees today
SkilledUp Life started by trying to solve a fundamental problem – how do you build a successful tech startup, if you do not have the capital to pay for talent? Of course, one answer is to raise capital, but not all businesses are investible. Debt finance is not the route for many tech startups in […]
What could this mean?
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Re-designing SkilledUp Life Organisation
When you have 14,000+ free talent at your disposal, it\’s not hard to go crazy with redesigning your organisation. That\’s exactly what I did yesterday. In the past, we had a very simple structure. This time I departed from simplicity to complexity adopting a matrix organisational structure. At the outset, this seems not an effective […]
October 1st CEO Rant – Plan for this month
Whilst we have an amazing team at SkilledUp Life and I appreciate everything they do (except Mithun and me, all others are Volunteers), I am really annoyed at myself for the slow progress we have achieved. If SkilledUp Life is a venture-backed tech startup, I would most likely be fired by now as the CEO, as I have not […]
The new breed of Experience Seekers
There is a new breed of experience seekers on SkilledUp Life. A Volunteer Term is typically 3 months long with a 1 to 3-hour commitment per day. This was designed to be nonintrusive to help the world\’s adult population to gain experience to improve their career prospects so that they improve their chance of landing […]
Growth via country-specific strategies
Hypothesis Country-specific teams will speed up the growth of SkilledUp Life. Country Chosen I am selecting the Philippines to test this hypothesis. However, there is no scientific reason for selecting the Philippines. Team Structure The team has to be small and agile, yet be able to achieve results. The decision was taken to build a team […]
12,008 Volunteers ready to help bootstrapped tech startups
I\’m happy to announce that we went past the 12,000 total Volunteers mini milestone early this morning. August has turned out to be a slow month for SkilledUp Life, mainly due to: It\’s the month after year-end and the team including me seems to let the guard down. Most people are on holiday or in […]
SkilledUp Life Customer Workshop #5 – Introductory session for new customers
Attended by Tech Founders & CEOs of Kitchen Cottage Academy Valorise StudentTeachStudent
Having to do the impossible
At the start of the 2nd year (1st Aug 2021), we set a target of achieving 10x growth on the supply side of SkilledUp Life. In the first 12 months, we achieved our target of signing up 1,000 Volunteers with 24 hours to go. To 10x in the next 12 months, we had to continually up […]
Founder Institute and SkilledUp Life for tech startup success
We are proud to announce our first Accelerator Partnership with none other than the globally renowned Founder Institute, starting with their South African chapter. Founded in 2009 by Adeo Ressi and Jonathan Greechan, to date, Founder Institute has helped launch over 6,000 companies across over 200 cities and 6 continents. Founder Institute Alumni has raised […]