As many of you who follow our activities will know, we decided to begin to reach out beyond the UK’s borders last year. We invited interested parties from a number of nations to join us at the MADE Festival in Sheffield and followed up with those groups that showed the most interest.
Without a doubt, the Post Privitization Foundation (PPF) led by the notable Peter Barta was the most pro-active and ambitious. We had a working agreement within a month...
Coming up with a good scalable idea and implementing it well is often the work of a few years and on the way to success there are a lot of false starts.
Networking is something most entrepreneurs don’t do nearly enough of, and the more you do it the better your business will do. People deliver opportunities. It is unlikely that a multi-million pound customer is going to knock on your front door, but its quite likely several of them will be at the next big local trade show for your industry.
These days, an effective, evocative website is one of the most important tools you can use in selling writers, editors, producers and reporters on the importance of your story.
Millions of business owners host a virtual feast on their website every day and play host to thousands or tens of thousands of visitors every month and yet get next to nothing in return for their efforts. Generally speaking, this is not good business...
I have never understood the antipathy that otherwise rational people have for the so-called “lifestyle business”. Quite recently I heard someone in a position of responsibility in the small business community disparage lifestyle businesses. They weren’t real businesses, he said. They only enriched the owner, he said. What the f**k, I thought to myself?
Even more puzzling was the unthinking regard that everyone holds for the externally funded business. Get angel funding, get venture capital, get debt from a bank...
At a recent Start Here: Starting & Growing a Successful Business event held in London, we received the following questions. We’ve taken a moment to respond to them. We thought others might find the answers interesting.
We recently interviewed Kevin Farrar, who leads IBM's Global Entrepreneur program. This IBM initiative seeks to partner with technology entrepreneurs interested in delivering solutions address issues enterprise customers are facing in the areas of banking, buildings, cities, cloud computing, education, energy, food, government, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, oil, products, public safety, rail, retail, stimulus, telecommunications, traffic, water, and work . . .
Doug Richard addresses the fundamental issues of starting-up and running a business.
