We’d all like to be better and we’d like our businesses to be better but it’s all to easy to dismiss big jumps in improvement as being too hard, or requiring too much time when we’re just too busy to spare it.

Mostly we’re just making excuses however. As the old Chinese proverb says:

A journey of [...]

Warren Buffet, the billionaire CEO of Bershire Hathaway said:

“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing”

I think that sums up a lots of the points I made about selling to the supermarkets. When you get a quiet moment ask yourself honest, do you know what you’re doing?

Rachel Elnaugh commented on my post So Cheap We Can’t Afford It asking:

Have you ever supplied Tesco? Then you will know it goes like this:

They approach you to supply them; you believe all your business dreams have come true.
You step up production and make the necessary business investment (often highly leveraging yourself in the process), [...]

The BBC are currently showing “Dragon’s Den Where Are They Now” and as I’ve just read a list of 10 Signs that you’re and Entrepreneur and it occurred to me that it was time we had some humour on the blog, so here’s my top 5 signs you’re an Entrepreneur (and should be on Dragon’s [...]

Rachel Elnaugh recently blogged about me saying:

John Crickett has taken exception to my Blog about Peter Jones’ new ‘Tycoon’ show, posing the question ‘Jones vs Elnaugh: Who Do You Think is the Better Entrepreneur?’
That last one is an interesting one John, and tells me instantly that you are an ‘Alphapreneur’ - one of those ghastly [...]

“Have you ever lied or cheated to get what you wanted?”
“Yes, To get someone else’s husband because I wanted him.”
Said Katie Hopkins on The Apprentice (BBC), she went on to say that on a ruthlessness scale of 1 to 10 that was only an 8. I suppose for the apprentice candidate that’s wished another candidate [...]

I came across an old(ish) press release from NatWest that says:

Nearly three quarters of sixth formers and two thirds of university students would consider setting up their own business after they finish education, according to the 2005 NatWest Student Money Matters survey. What’s more, over 30% have an innovative business idea that they would like [...]

I read on Guy Kawasaki’s blog that the World’s Best Presentation Contest has announced the winners the first place going to the excellent Shift Happens.
Whatever your business opportunity or business idea sooner or later you’ll have to give a presentation be that to raise finance or to secure a sale, and good presentation skills could [...]

I saw this interesting snippet on the A VC blog:
Nine of our eleven entrepreneurs are in their 30s. One is in his 20s, and one is in his 50s.
That says to me that prime time entrepreneurship is 30s. And its possibly getting younger as web technology meets youth culture.
I started my first proper business at 24 [...]

Seth Godin made an excellent post to his blog today about managing your personal finances and applying that to starting your business. He said:
Even in the web 2.0 world, marketers need money. We need money to create remarkable products and to tell stories that spread. We need it to hire the best people and most [...]