Posted on June 8, 2010 by Nick
It’s that time again. For four weeks, you can’t move for footie. Now, as it happens, I’m not a huge football fan. I’ll be reasonably interested in the England games, and I’ll almost certainly watch the semis and final games. But I wouldn’t break into a run to get anywhere in time for a match, [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2010 by Nick
New entrepreneurs, on the cusp of starting their own businesses, generally fall into two categories: People with no idea what to do, but the urge to try something new People with a brilliant/hare-brained idea, but no idea how to execute it In the second category are a fabulous breed of people: the hobbyists. Turning a [...]
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Posted on May 17, 2010 by Nick
The juggernaut that is the Apprentice rolls inexorably on; this time with the format franchised out to youngsters. Yep, it’s ‘Junior Apprentice;’ or, so far as I or any of my friends can tell, ‘Where The Arrogant Ones In Senior Apprentice Obviously Come From.’ You can probably tell, I’m not a fan. My issues with [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2010 by Nick
Entrepreneurship is cool. It’s going to stay cool, because in a recession, business is the most exciting way to turn things around. But how can we bring business to the masses? Rachel Bridge, Enterprise Editor for the Sunday Times is having a go… by taking a one-woman show about entrepreneurship to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2010 by Nick
It’s going to be an exciting week. For me, election time is thrilling: a pivotal opportunity for us all to have some sort of influence over our immediate futures. I feel that anyone who squanders their right to vote by staying at home has no right to moan for the next five years. This election, [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2010 by Nick
Off to Leicester last week for my annual pilgrimage to DeMontfort University, where the business studies courses include a ritual called Fox’s Lair – a thinly disguised version of TV favourite dragon’s Den. Teams of students put together a business idea, draw up a plan and present it to the Dragons – no, I mean [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2010 by Nick
Tomorrow, there will be an empty chair in our office. A stray tumbleweed will gently play across a desk. Sands will slowly envelop the three-tier trays. For Eamonn, my Producer, is stranded in Chicago. Like several hundred thousand other people, the Icelandic volcaninc eruption and subsequent flight embargo means he’s going nowhere; most likely until [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2010 by Nick
Look at this merry lot. Is it the last day of the Oktoberfest? A leaving party, perhaps? No – it’s the London Area Communicators Group monthly meetup (run by the inestimable Matt O’Neill). Every industry has networking groups, and I truly believe that these gatherings are the lifeblood of business. When I first started out, [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2010 by Nick
This week, I tried my hand at organising an offsite day. It’s very easy when you’re stuck in the rough and tumble of day-to-day business to get lost; to lose sight of the wood from the trees. Getting everyone out of the office, away from phones and emails, for a healthy open discussion is a [...]
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