SkilledUp Life
Honest review
The trick is to have a strong foundation from which we can grow. SkilledUp Life started in the summer of 2020, but until 2026, we did not have a: Technology (product) foundation: Version 1 was a 3-day WordPress hack, which lasted 5.5 years. In Feb 2026, we went live with Version 2, built by our […]
Sales Meeting
Just completed the weekly Sales Meeting at SkilledUp Life today. We discussed the positive story of one of our customers and how to amplify it. This is almost an ideal customer reference. Hope the team left motivated.
China50k Plan
What is China50k or Chinese50k? It’s an audacious plan by me to acquire 50,000 of the 150,000 Chinese Students and Graduates in the UK and provide them with an option to acquire UK experience and skills through SkilledUp Life. Crazy, hah! Perhaps. To achieve this, we need to recruit 30 Chinese UK graduates into SkilledUp […]
SkilledUp Life Signs MoU with Accelerate Me
I had the privilege to speak at an Accelerate Me session last Tuesday. Yesterday, I signed a Accelerator Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with their President, Jasper Lee. Under this Agreement, Accelerate Me cohort members can benefit from 20% discount on SkilledUp Life price plans.
Getting things wrong – two resigns
In my effort to be efficient (I’m still a slacker), I seem to have dropped all the niceties. My sentences are straight forward. I still use please but they are more to the point. I don’t write long essays when emailing. I try to keep things compact. I seem to have removed the filters, which […]
Evolving SkilledUp Life Product Team
Started with just me and my lead developer, we started to bring on SkilledUp Life volunteers at the end of December 2024. Now the team has expanded into: Head of Product – me Product Manager Lead Developer (only full timer) Back-end Developer Lead Designer UI/UX Designers Front-end Developers QA User Tester Next would be to […]
Career transition without spend
Don’t give up your paid working hours to join SkilledUp Life team I just interviewed a Brit for a leadership role at https://skilledup.life – to my surprise, she was looking to compromise paid hours to join us as a Volunteer. No one needs to do this. SkilledUp Life Volunteer Term is designed to be an […]
Attrition rate drops to 58.93%
The attrition rate at the SkilledUp Life team has reduced to 58.93% which is good. However, this is artificially improved due to the very low recruitment velocity experienced at present. So we should not congratulate ourselves. It’s my belief this could be reduced to 40%. This should be the key focus of the Deputy Head […]
Wasting time on wrong customers or sour grapes – you decide!
Don’t waste time focusing on the wrong type of customers. Some customers will love your product. Some might hate it. And there will be plenty of others between love and hate. I’ve learned over the years that you cannot make every customer love your product. It’s better to let those who hate your product go […]
Pricing dilemma
We have so many tech startup customers who ought to be paying us the Advanced Plan pricing, yet continue to stay on the Starter Plan. I even heard from one customer that their revenues tripled recently. In one case, other than the founder, 100% of the team members are SkilledUp Lifers. Yet they will continue […]