Richard Mulholland

• SPEAKER

  • Richard kicked off his career as a rock n roll roadie, operating lights for bands such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. From there he started SA's largest presentation firm, Missing Link and co-founded 21Tanks, SA's first perspective lab.

    Richard is a highly regarded speaker. When not addressing many of South Africa's top corporations, he guest lectures on courses for The Cape Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).

    As well as blogging on richmulholland.com, Richard is a columnist for Longevity and Destiny Man magazines.

    He has a tattoo of your Mum on his left bum cheek...!

• ENTREPRENEUR
  • Rich started and grew Missing Link to be the largest Presentation firm in South Africa. Never one to be satisfied with stagnation, Rich has made use of his advanced years to accomplish a fair amount. He bred again, tattooed his back, owns two houses, and now rides a Vespa (after failing his learner’s…). They grow up so fast… He also co-founded our sister company – Thunk!
• BLOG
  • Rich posts at various blogs when he gets the time. You can get his ramblings at:
  • Rich's BlogMy own blog
  • Jo'blogA Johannesburg focused blog
  • Capitalist PunksRants & Raves
  • Blare Rich Project...!Personal bits
• VIDEO & NEWS
  • ImageDestiny Man Magazine
  • ImageGear in Horizons
  • ImageM&G : 200 Young South Africans
  • ImageStuff Magazine
  • ImageSales Guru
  • ImageLeadership Mag Article
  • VideoMy 2009 Showreel
  • ImageLive out Loud (Nov '09)
  • VideoCNBC: We're so hot right now
  • LinkMoneyWeb: Death by PowerPoint
  • VideoCNBC interview: on culture
  • Part 1 2 3Your conference sucks
  • ImageMaverick magazine, March '07
  • ImageEntrepreneur magazine, Jan '07
• FOLLOW ME
  • BooksSome of the books I have read
  • LinkedInMy Business Connections
  • DeliciousMy Bookmarks Online
  • TwitterFollow me on Twitter
  • TwitterMy Presentation Tips on Twitter
  • FacebookStalk me on Facebook
  • FlickrMy Photostream
  • LinkrMissing Link's Photostream
  • Last.fmMusic that rocks my world
  • ZoopyMy Videos
• TESTIMONIALS
• CONTACT
  • E-mail rich at missinglink dot co dot za
  • tel +27 (0) 11 467 8160
  • mobile +27 (0) 83 273 9889
  • Skype richardmulholland

Still learning...!

Reclaim yourself, question everything...

Share of wallet

A few months back @TasosCalantzis of the Red Dot award winning design firm trstrl told me about FoundersCard. It’s basically a discount club of sorts for business founders. I signed up (and have already saved twice what I spent to subscribe). Today, the actual card arrived in the mail:

It’s metal, shiny, awesome, and completely useless. This card is unapologetically form-over-function (they give you the option to print or photograph a paper version) – and I love it!

The term share of wallet used to be figurative, now it’s literal. Carrying a wallet is a grudge purchase in and of itself. So I now carry the brilliant and small Bellroy Smart Sleeve (as introduced to me by the carryology crew), if you want to get your card into my wallet, it has to be something I use just about daily, the others get relegated to the backpack. Either that, or it has to look like the FoundersCard.

Don’t kid yourself, design matters…!

(I do wish that they’d used an apostrophe though; either Founder’s Card or Founders’ Card – grammar matters too)

August 8, 2011 at 3:25 pm | No comment