Posted on June 23, 2008 by Nick
I’ve been in the internet business for over a decade now, and I’m pretty jaded. It takes a lot to impress me.
This week, a new launch caught my eye which has the power to be truly disruptive: changing the status quo in a useful, daily kind of way.
It’s called ViaPost, and it promises to simplify [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by Nick
Tenon, the entrepreneur’s forum, has recently published a survey, claiming that for most respondents it just doesn’t pay for small businesses to become more environmentally friendly. Over half of those questioned had made no progress in implementing green measures and had no intention of doing so.
This made me wonder, first of all, how green am [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2008 by Nick
Well, given the unstable state of the economy, we should have expected a pretty bland budget, and that’s what we got. Darling was barracked the moment he got to his feet, using the phrase “Stability now, and in the future” to much laughter. But in my previous post I lamented this administration’s endless tinkering, and [...]
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