Posted on June 14, 2010 by Nick
Is business the province of the Suits on Dragons’ Den, or is business actually an opportunity for many more people than you might think? I spent the first week of June in Barking, East London, finding out. I have been involved for three years now with a company called Yoodoo, whose website gives people bags [...]
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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 February 15, 2010 by Nick
I’ve just read this interesting piece from the New York Times, and I’d like you to read it before you carry on here. It’s an interview with George Cloutier, renowned in the US as “The Turnaround Ace”. I think some of what he says is true, and other points are so far off the mark [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2010 by Nick
This week, we’ve been interviewing for a fairly senior marketing role on a particular project. With the current economic climate, there’s been no shortage of high-calibre applicants. It’s not the first time I’ve conducted interviews; but it is the first time I’ve been able to sit back and watch. A colleague of mine was running [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2009 by Nick
If, like me, you’re doing your best to run a business under difficult economic circumstances, spare a thought for Songbird, the majority owner of that mighty symbol of capitalism, Canary Wharf. Last week, Songbird pulled in the largest ever equity raising in the British property industry in order to stave off bankruptcy: tapping new investors [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2009 by Nick
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, I hope I’ve been broad enough in my declared opinions for you not to be able to guess which way I vote in political elections. After all, that’s nobody’s business but my own. I’m not going to tell you here how I voted on Thursday [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Nick
There were heated discussions in the pub last night. We discussed the BBC’s decision not to screen the DEC’s appeal for victims in Gaza (fairly heated). We discussed Celebrity Big Brother (very heated indeed). And then we discussed not one but two resurgences from the 1980s. The first was the return of Tory ex-chancellor Ken [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2008 by Nick
This post is going to be a bit odd for me, because I’m going to talk about something I don’t know much about at all- manufacturing. You see, I have always worked in the service sector. I’ve got soft, Fairy Liquid hands because ‘I’ve never done a ‘proper’ day’s work in my life’. I’ve lived [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Nick
Yesterday, the Monetary Policy Committee cut the base rate of interest by a whopping 1.5%; from 4.5% to 3%. If you’re a homeowner, you’ll know that rates usually change in increments of one quarter of a percent, so a change six times as large is a sure sign of an economy teetering on the edges [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2008 by Nick
A few years ago, I discovered a gem of a website for any business. WantDontWant is a magic service where large businesses can advertise their unwanted office furniture. The big company saves on disposal and removals. Little guys like you and me get discounted office furniture. It’s not an auction- there’s no high-pressure bidding; just [...]
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