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I’ve been ‘doing’ startup technology businesses for over 20 years now. During that time lots of things have changed, and lots of things have stayed the same. It can [...]
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Five Quid and a Crate of Beer - Starting the New New Business




(click and rate this post!)Brain Food




(click to vote)Long-time readers will know that I am a bit of a TED fanatic. I’d love to get the best of the UK’s brains together for an affordable, UK version of TED. I’ve met so many talented, world-changing people over the last year. I’d love to get them up on a stage. One day, one day. It will happen. In the mean-time…
Gordon Brown at NESTA - The Innovation Edge




(click and rate this post!)I’m typing from The NESTA Innovation Edge event today. Innovation has been, unsurprisingly, the key theme. I’ll post more on my notes from the sessions over the next few days - Tim Berners-Lee spoke, and as a surprise (for me at least), Gordon Brown also spoke briefly at the event. He said he was sending [...]
Keeping Notes and Hiring Good People




(click and rate this post!)I like to gather information into piles - adding bits to each pile as I discover things, or as they occur to me. I use a combination of notes in outlook (a habit from my Windows Mobile PDA days) and a personal wiki. One day I’ll turn some of those piles into a book or [...]
Seize the Day - In Memory of Galba Bright




(click and rate this post!)Carpe Diem - Seize the day, from Horace’s poem: “While we’re talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.”
Regular readers will know Galba Bright. He wrote the excellent Tune Up Your EQ blog and regularly commented here and on a number of other blogs. Sadly, Galba passed away recently. [...]
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On the way home, my thoughts turned to "what makes a good pitch?" Over the years I've been on both sides of the table, prepping the pitches and pitching businesses for funding, but also listening to company pitches with a view to investment or acquisition. As I was describing these my ever astute COO, she said "That sounds like the seven habits of highly effective pitchers", so here they are...
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Internet engineer, turned business exec and developing psychologist Benjamin Ellis is passionate about technology that solves human problems, and humans that solve technology problems. He blogs on productivity, communication and technology - Quite simply: WOWNDADI - Work out what needs doing and do it.
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