There are two ways of starting up a company. The first is to take an existing business idea, and do it better. Preferably you will concentrate on an area where the competition is limited or you have some existing connections.
Posts Tagged ‘innovation’
What sort of start up?
Posted in Advice for your business, Successful entrepreneurs, Technology, tagged idea, innovation, leadership, startup on 22 February, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Overcoming the challenges of taking an innovation to market
Posted in Advice for your business, Sales and Marketing, Technology, tagged challenges, design, Ideas, innovation, intellectual property, manufacture, patents on 11 February, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I qualified with an electrical engineering degree from Southampton University in 1986. Various subsequent management and sales roles enabled me to build the knowledge and contacts needed to set up my first venture some five years later – designing and manufacturing production line machinery.
Keeping up with the Joneses
Posted in Advice for your business, tagged Business Pulse, innovation, Lord Digby Jones, National Enterprise Academy, Peter Jones, Small Business Week on 20 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monday morning saw an early start for your intrepid Blogger and a trip to the BT Tower in London for the Small Business Week launch event. The Business Pulse survey results were revealed and were duly followed by a series of talks from the likes of Lord Digby Jones and Peter Jones.
The muse is upon me
Posted in Random thoughts, tagged business ideas, innovation on 16 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Where do business ideas come from? Did you have a ‘eureka!’ moment while soaping up your ducks in the bath? Maybe you got sick of working for ‘the Man’ and stepped sideways to set up for yourself (much more likely). On last night’s chain-smoking TV show Mad Men, about a 1950s advertising agency, a young [...]
