Posts tagged "doug richard"

Naked Business: Building a Wall of Sound

Marketing is never the job of a few in a business these days. It has to be everyone’s job.

Wednesday 21 April 2010

Start Here! Starting & Growing a Successful Business, University of Cambridge, 19th May

Date: 19 May 2010
Time: 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location: Cambridge

Following the huge success of our seminars around the UK, Doug and the School for Startups team are taking their nationwide tour to Cambridge. A must-attend event for any budding entrepreneur, “Start Here! Starting and Growing a Successful Business” is hosted personally by Doug Richard and is the cornerstone of the School for Startups curriculum.

The [...]

Tuesday 20 April 2010

Pitching Investors: Mastering the Story That Sells

By Doug Richard
Before You Pitch
Before we drive right into mastering the single most important skill you need to succeed in gaining investment from a pitch meeting, let’s have a two minute review of what you need to have in place before you get one.  Assuming your intent is to raise funds for your business, your [...]

Friday 16 April 2010

The Fight Against America

Yesterday in the op-ed column of the NY Times Thomas Friedman wrote,
“If we want to bring down unemployment in a sustainable way, neither rescuing General Motors nor funding more road construction will do it…”

Tuesday 6 April 2010

I Have to Show You: Tubemogul Rapid Deployment of Video Across the Internet

An exceptional tool for UK entrepreneurs and startups, Tubemogul is a free web service that you can use to upload your web clips to twenty or more websites.

Friday 2 April 2010

Employees: Can’t Live with Em, Can’t Live Without Em

By Douglas Richard
I have mixed feelings about employees. Not as people. The employees and associates of School for Startups are exceptional people. Nicola, Triona, Victoria, Poppy, Shashank, Alex, Nancy (even from LA) and our associates Erin and Jack are all great at what they do and are fun to work with.
My feelings are mixed because [...]

Thursday 1 April 2010

Seduced by the Dark Side: Taking Management Advice from Donald Rumsfeld

by Doug Richard
What better way to start to start an article than by quoting a man I loathe?
“. . . as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. [...]

Tuesday 30 March 2010

A Plague On Both Their Houses: Mandelson vs Lambert

By Doug Richard
Let’s first re-cap the argument to date. Last week during the Budget Festival, Lord Mandelson was on a side stage promoting his idea of a credit adjudicator. This novel idea is to create a completely new judicial system to review unfair loan denials by banks to small businesses.
This is a remedy to the [...]

Monday 29 March 2010

The Product is Your Marketing

Yesterday, Doug wrote a revealing post about “What Businesses Will Be Worrying About Next Year“. After a flurry of tweeting activity and interest, we thought we would follow up with an exclusive video from our S4Stv archive entitled “Product Marketing on the Internet“.
In the clip below, Doug explains how your product or service can serve [...]

Tuesday 23 March 2010

What Businesses Will Be Worrying About Next Year

I was sitting in a development meeting at a small company that I mentor last week. The CEO, who was the “sales” guy on the team, and the other founder, who was the “tech” guy on the team were arguing about the development schedule and what features should be included in release one.
Actually, they were [...]

Monday 22 March 2010