So it’s the morning after the night before and a number of us arrive at 9am as expected for a meeting in the main room, however we are surprised to see a note stating that the meeting is moved till 10am. We head over toward our office space to see a number of other teams [...]
October 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
Oxygen Accelerator – Beginning of an exciting new journey
October 1st 2012 marked a very special day in my calendar. It marked the first day on Oxygen Accelerator, an investor funded startup incubator, which brings startups together into one place and bombards them with resources over an intensive 13 weeks to really accelerate their growth. After much interrogation by mentors and investors, we passed [...]
August 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
The bloggers guide to great headlines
Creating a good headline is an important part of blogging. It helps with SEO through keyword usage and it help with reader retention as it entices your visitors to read more. You have less than three seconds to catch a reader’s attention so a great headline really is essential to gain people’s longer term attention. [...]
August 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
What the Olympics Reminds Us about being Successful
With the London 2012 Olympics drawing to a close, it’s an opportune moment to look back and reflect upon what these athletes can remind us about being successful. As entrepreneurs we often forget many of the other elements that help you become successful, relying instead on our own ability alone. Unfortunately as you will see [...]
August 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Getting into the Olympic Spirit
The London 2012 Olympics has been a big reminder of how to utilise branding in just about everything. Right from the initial torch relay around the UK, the great population has slowly been getting into the Olympic spirit. I’ll be writing a synopsis on lesson from London 2012 Olympic branding in the coming days, but [...]
July 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
Three Business Tips for Startups by Alex Major
Another week and another meet up with a Birmingham based entrepreneur. Life at Birmingham Science Park sure is interesting. This week I was given the chance to take to Alex Major, a somewhat serial entrepreneur with a very technical background. Having worked for the likes of Google, he decided to divert his interest into his [...]
July 4, 2012 By 6 Comments
5 Interesting lessons I learnt from Barnaby Lashbrooke
For those that do not know Barnaby Lashbrooke is a UK based entrepreneur and a very interesting guy. By the age of 28 he had already sold a domain selling company for a multi million pound sum after growing it from nothing to 24,000 members with just £150 startup money. Currently he runs a series [...]
June 16, 2012 By 11 Comments
How a young girl racked up over 5 million hits to her blog within a few short months
Here is a really interesting story of how a 9-year-old school girl created a blog which within a few months has had nearly 5 million hits and raised over £60,000 for charity. Helped by her father, Veg set up a free Blogger account and decided to document her school meals everyday. She would take a [...]
May 6, 2012 By 11 Comments
DYS Launch Weekend: Can you really produce a quality Online Marketing Product within a day?
Can you really produce a quality Online Marketing Product in a day? We are doing a live experiment to find out! A few weeks ago I attended a weekend event where I pitched an idea, had people volunteer to join my team and then started my first Tech Company within 24 hours and it got [...]
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