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 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 [...]
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 [...]
April 19, 2012 By 8 Comments
5 working rules for entrepreneurs and startups to live by
Welcome to perhaps my shortest post yet. 5 working rules for startups and entrepreneurs to live by: 1) Do something that scares you every day… If you have been putting something off or just feared doing something, then get through them one by one. You will be surprised just how much you learn and [...]
April 4, 2012 By 8 Comments
10 things I learned about getting your story to journalists
I have been very fortunate these past weeks to attend some very well organised events within the centre of Birmingham. The first was Launch48 which was well documented in this article: 10 Things I learned about a new startup. The second, which I attended today was Launch: Meet the Gaming Press. Launch Gaming event was [...]
March 30, 2012 By 4 Comments
Business Focus: BeHiring.com Innovative Recruiting Startup
Welcome to the new feature where I look at a business in-depth. This ‘Business Focus’ aims to inspire and motivate you within your business, whilst giving you answers to issues that you may be facing too. We start with a very innovative startup within the Recruitment Industry. A startup that within a few intense month [...]
March 26, 2012 By 10 Comments
Validating niche ideas – How to check that your niche ideas are actually as good as you think they are.
This article is the second in the ‘Finding Profitable Niches’ series. You can read the first article here: Finding Niche Ideas – 5 Ways to generate ideas In the first article in this series I discussed 5 ways to generate great niche ideas. This article takes it one step further and now that we [...]
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