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Susan Benjamin:
This is an excellent programme for startups who face so many challenges and limited budgets
Matt Robinson:
Excellent Day, Interesting Anecdotes, Energetic Delivery
John Hynes:
It’s nice to hear from a man who has done the walk and is able to talk the talk
Clare Brynley-Jones:
Great day – great setting, really interesting and reassuring
Ross Wallin, Pitcher and Piano:
Great Venue, charismatic presenter and good time slots
Phillip Gibbs, Synergy Linx Ltd:
Doug Richard is great, open and has a great sense of humour. Phil Wilkinson was a very valuable addition
Vanessa Knight, 100 Percent Art:
Brilliant, loved the interactive approach with audience to give real on-the-spot examples
Joanna Anthony:
A positive day which I can highly recommend to others
Posts tagged "startups"
Why Do People Hate Lifestyle Businesses?
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 [...]
Tuesday 13 July 2010
Entrepreneurs & Disruptive Technologies: A Match Made in Heaven
Technology comes in two types. Sustaining technologies that are incremental in nature and support existing market leaders, and disruptive technologies that represent complete paradigm shifts and displace existing market leaders. Disruptive technologies are the tools used by effective entrepreneurs to unseat market leaders.
Monday 12 July 2010
Practical Q&A With Doug Richard: Mentoring, Recruiting & Seeing Opportunities
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.
Friday 2 July 2010
Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating & Testing Business Models
To Entrepreneurs starting a business for the first (second or third time) every business looks different. To an investor, who evaluates hundreds of businesses a year, businesses clearly fall into groups.
Wednesday 23 June 2010
Jenny Twigg, Managing Director of LilyPins
Jenny Twigg, Managing Director of Lily Pins was runner up in the Pitch 2009 competition. She will be joining Doug Richard at the Perfect Your Pitch Event on June 21. This event will be delivered at University College of London and will also be presented online via S4Stv. As this interview indicates, Jenny and her business are quite amazing . . .
Tuesday 1 June 2010
We’re a Volcano Company: Working Remote From Kenya
As readers of this column know, School for Startups (S4S) closed its office doors last summer and we all became remote workers. The idea of not having an office seemed at the time to offer much more upside than down side.
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
Keeping Your Company’s Emails Out of Your Customer’s Spam Box
Anti-SPAM tools have grown more “effective” over time, but they also block legitimate email quite effectively.
Wednesday 14 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
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