Social Media Business Ethics
Reaching for my camera (rather than my daughter’s foot) as Megan falls from a Chicago skyscraper, suggests an untruth is perhaps at play…
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Get yourself the job you want... | Practical 'How to' business guidance and advice | Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs
Making a living on the road
Recent visits to the Far East as well as African continent have demonstrated that hitchhiking remains a popular means of transport. But whilst dozens of people with outstretched thumbs lined my route from Uhmslanga to Durban, it was the mothers with babes on their backs, risking life and limb in the car-frenzied city of Jakarta,…
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Great teaching: Entrepreneurship, enterprise & business | Practical 'How to' business guidance and advice | SimVenture: Global impact of a business simulation
Film treasures all entrepreneurs should find
By accident, I recently discovered a powerful and uplifting film about global social entrepreneurship. Concerned I’d never heard about this brilliantly-made & influential production (See 1. Who Cares?), I decided to search the web to uncover other film treasures all entrepreneurs should find. What I found may stagger you…
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Crowdfunding Challenges Banks
Following a short interview at Cumbria’s ‘Wasdale Head Inn‘ I secured my first-ever paid job in 1984 as a kitchen porter. Fresh out of school, my new hotel home was at the end of a long valley, 8 miles from the nearest shop and another 3 to the nearest town. And that’s where I found…
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Start Exporting: Your Practical Guide
Building the SimVenture brand has involved little hitchhiking but much globe-trotting over the last decade. In this time, exporting has become a key revenue stream for our company. Over 35% of all sales are now sourced from overseas. So what’s been learnt and how can you start exporting and build your business? Here are my…
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Great teaching: Entrepreneurship, enterprise & business | Practical 'How to' business guidance and advice | Successes & failures: Invaluable lessons from entrepreneurs
Educational Entrepreneur Making a Difference
Delight can turn to frustration when an excellent new recruit, who is just settling into the post, decides to accept a job offer elsewhere. But occasionally, you know they’ve made the right decision…
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Great teaching: Entrepreneurship, enterprise & business | Practical 'How to' business guidance and advice
Pioneering Outdoor Entrepreneur
“A torch? “No, you don’t need one. “The night is not dark!” Frank Dawson, the ‘pioneering outdoor entrepreneur’ and head of centre, spoke with calm assertion to 10 newly acquainted teenagers. Being 10pm, the group was visibly alarmed. None had anticipated that their sensible request for light (ahead of their night walk through an ancient…
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Understand Business Startup Insurance
As my first year of business in York neared its end I arrived at work one Monday only to discover a ransacked office. Cables were ripped out of walls, paper covered the floor and my only computer was gone. Pants.
