Today – 31st October 2011 – is a day for the diary as it marked the day when the world population officially hit 7Billion. The next 25 years will see the world surpass 9Billion, and that is a conservative number, barring any major world epidemic (war is unlikely to have a material impact where as [...]
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Having recently had some experience in funding discussions for a business, it was evident that there is still a real and grave problem with banks and large institutions providing seed capital to small business. In fact, the main source of funding opportunity these days coms from the private sector through VC’s. It would appear that [...]
As I sat in my garden this evening, I looked up and noticed the redundant old fashioned arial on the roof. I looked at my neighbours houses and could see that we all have pretty much the same ugly rake-style ariels that festoon the land on virtually every house. We have become so blind to [...]
When all the latest and greatest social sites started to take shape and grow, it was all about how many contacts you had, none more so than with Linked (showing off your business connectedness), facebook, Twitter et al. All of whom based their growth model largely on the ‘look at me’ factor in terms of [...]
There was a time when you would quite happily build a fully fledged site that had lots of clever modules, features and content which were only accessible if you were a registered user… Those were in the days that enabled a business middle to be built on a data acquisition strategy where, once you had [...]
I recently went on a bit of a boys adventure which involved me, my brother in law and a mentally fast speedboat. The trip was intended to be a bit of fun combined with some drinking and fishing. My brother in law runs a restaurant in Dunster, in Somerset near Minehead (it is called Reeves [...]
