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…
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…
Globally, little evidence exists that business start-up and survival rates are improving. Data released by Experian (November 2011) showed 70% of start-up businesses fail within 36 months of starting. So it’s a mystery why the most important entrepreneurial skill is seldom taught. If entrepreneurs are to survive & thrive we need to provide the right…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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