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 October 6, 2008 by Nick
One of the things they always say about business (I don’t know who ‘they’ are, but they’re right) is that you need a good team around you. Even if you’re a sole trader, you need a good accountant, assistance from friends, subcontractors etc. They’re all part of your team. Last Friday, I saw teamwork in [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2008 by Nick
There’s an old saying: “If you want to get a job done properly, you’ve got to do it yourself”. I have to admit, I have always been the sort of person who agreed with that. Like many entrepreneurs, I want everything done my way. And when other people do the job, it’s never quite how [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Nick
It’s been an exciting day. Today, I headed up to Leicester’s DeMontfort University, where under the keen eye of Edwina Goodwin, first-year Business student were entering the Fox’s Lair. Yup, it’s a thinly disguised version of TV’s Dragon’s Den, and I was lucky enough to be invited to be one of ten on-duty dragons. Edwina’s [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Nick
I’m about a week behind here, but I’ve just sat open-mouthed through the BBC’s fab “The Apprentice”, episode 2. If you haven’t seen it, it’s the usual compulsive mix of reality TV and entrepreneurship. Villain of the piece was the Girls Team project manager Jenny Celerier, who (admittedly perhaps through judicious video editing) looks like [...]
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