Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs
Examples, case studies and real-life stories about entrepreneurs and their working lives. Learn from the success and failure of others to save you money and time and ultimately help you succeed.
Find New Business Ideas to (kick) Start your Business
Where to find new ideas to start your business
If you read the post 'How to Profit from the Alternative Rhythms of Time', you'll be aware I recommended the 'Springwise' website. It's just one place to find new business ideas to kick-start your thinking and get your daily fix of innovative and entrepreneurial thoughts... Read More
Profit from the Alternative Rhythms of Time
Our planet hosts 4 billion people who scrape by on less than $2 a day.
Yet, perverse as it may sound, 24 hours in a day is not enough time for many people who work in industrialised economies. Lack of time rather than lack of money is an increasingly common complaint amongst the 100,000 million people who earn $20,000 or more annually... Read More
Going faster by slowing down
Going faster by slowing down is a important way think
In my earliest hitchhiking days, any stopping vehicle was an opportunity to travel. The excitement of the moment put me in the car. Going faster by slowing down was a concept outside my impatient grasp... Read More
Men Behaving Badly*
A surprise meeting with Martin Clunes (he of Men Behaving Badly) at a 'Dodgy' Concert in the intimate 'Bush Hall' in London provided the light-bulb moment for this article... Read More
Teenage Love Fires Entrepreneurial Spirit
Teenage love fires entrepreneurial spirit
To describe one of my first loves as a 'big bag' might be a little misleading, but it is quite true.
Like any other 16 year-old, relationships were important to me.
I wasn't necessarily looking for love. But back then I had no idea how or why teenage love fires entrepreneurial spirit.
Fast-forward. Thirty years later, I get goosebumps. And the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end when I think of how we first met.
It was like this... Read More
It is your business to make it happen
Don't wait! It is your business to make it happen
Escaping the clutches of suburban Northampton by hitchhiking to west London might not be everyone's idea of fun on a late Friday afternoon, but I was really up for it... Read More
Take students to the darkside
Take students to the darkside to make learning meaningful & relevant
Pink Floyd's chart breaking 1973 album 'Dark Side of the Moon' brought a legendary band together in a highly creative and entrepreneurial manner.
The music was rich and expressive and importantly tangential to the popular but increasingly bland 'Glam rock'. Charting for over 740 weeks, 'Dark Side of the Moon' opened the door to world fame and fortune for 4 young men... Read More
Game on for back bedroom passion
Reading anything by Bill Bryson makes me smile and laugh out loud.
As a young man, Mr Bryson discovered the joys of hitchhiking. Driven by a thirst for adventure he spent two summers travelling around Europe with the aid of his thumb. He didn't know it at the time, but the accumulated experience when combined with his journalistic skills (acquired later) would make him a best-selling author (and a mint)... Read More