‘The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us’  - Ted Sarandos

Apply that thinking to your business. We live in an era of disruption, so, will you be disrupted or disrupt the industry?

At SXSW Interactive this year I attended one of the most inspirational keynote talks I’ve ever been to. Tina Roth Eisenberg, originally from Switzerland, is also known as ‘Swiss Miss’, her popular design blog, which she runs out of Brooklyn. She has a European viewpoint and a love for clean, Swiss functional design. Swiss-miss.com has a growing audience of 1.3M monthly unique readers from all over the world and was selected by The Times as one of the world’s Top 50 design blogs. She also runs a Brooklyn-based collaborative workspace calledStudiomates, organizes a monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings, is the inventor of the popular to-do app called TeuxDeux and is the force behind the temporary tattoo shop Tattly.

At her SXSWi keynote, ‘Swiss Miss’ shared her passion and knowledge from her diverse business experience. Her life lessons include:

1. Love what you do
2. Embrace enthusiasm
3. Don’t complain make things better
4. You’ve gotta trust, you’ve gotta empower
5. Put experience over money
6. Surround yourself with like-minded people
7. Collaborate (stay away from ego)
8. Ignore haters always
9. Make time to think and breathe
10. If an opportunity scares you, you need to take it
11. Be someone’s eccentric aunt (this was my favourite!)

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Brilliant Brunch at SXSW 2013 in Austin featuring: Bre Pettis (Makerbot, Founder), Baratunde Thurston (Comedian), Damian Kulash (OK Go), Beth Comstock (GE, CMO), David Karp (Tumblr, Founder), Carla Diana (Creative Director, Carla Diana Design), Jake Lodwick (Vimeo and Elepath, Founder)

I really love this idea for SXSW. Often you can’t make the panels you want to, you miss the people you wanted to meet and you don’t get to overhear awesome conversations between influencers such as these big dogs. It certainly makes me want to face the fear and do what these guys do, make something for the rest of the world to use.

2013 One to Watch – Shakey Graves

The below songs (my favourites) are best listened to on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Kick back, crack open a beer and pretend you’re in Texas, the home of Shakey Graves.

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I don’t normally like covers, but I do like this one from Vampire Weekend.

‘Can you hear me calling
Out your name
You know that I’m falling
And I don’t know what to say
I’ll speak a little louder
I’ll even shout
You know that I’m pround
And I can’t get the words out
Oh I…
I want to be with you everywhere’

It’s early March and the fashion month marathon that was has now finally come to an end. This can only mean one thing –  it’s time for SXSW! Move over #PFW, #LFW, #MFW and #NYFW. Hello #SXSW!

This SXSW season (known to regulars as ‘South By’) will be my 4th time attending the world’s largest interactive festival and the biggest piece of advice I can give to any digital fashionista attending is don’t spend all your time attending fashion panels. SXSW gives you the opportunity to meet with the interactive tech industry, so reach out to start-ups, tech agencies, mobile developers etc. and learn something new. The most interesting panels that I’ve attended in the past had nothing to do with fashion  - ‘Reboot Iceland‘ and ‘The Sports Fan in 2015′.

Attend at least one panel a day of which you know absolutely nothing about, you’d be surprised to learn how it can challenge the way you think and the way your industry operates. Let’s be honest, fashion has been very slow to the tech game so don’t be afraid to spend more of your time with the non-fashion crew at SXSW.

My focus this year is mobile, data, customer service and emerging markets for luxury fashion. Here are some panels I’m scheduled to attend.

SXSWi is all about interactivity, so make sure to be social! I’ve met some of my greatest ‘digital friends’ through sending them a ‘hello’ tweet. A good time to actually meet people is first thing in the AM for breakfast or over a beer in the evening (The Driskill is a good base!).

If you’d like to connect with me at SXSW, you can find me here-> @shelbyshelly

From the Staff Picks on Vimeo: ‘Kevin Russ has been a huge inspiration to me since about 2005 when I saw some of his pictures on flickr. Over the years, he has just become such an incredible and focused photographer, ranging from doing portraiture now to landscape photography. He is one of the most humble men you will ever meet and really shows that there is no secret to photography or getting an incredible image. Kevin has been traveling throughout the great American west shooting landscape and wildlife solely with his iPhone 4s and 5. He rarely pulls out his DSLR unless it’s for a bear or bear cub where he can’t get close. This is just a small peek into his life as a traveling photographer and some stories that come along with it. Enjoy! kevinruss.tumblr.com’