Furness Young Professionals Event: Starting a business

I’m looking forward to speak to a crowd of young professionals in Cumbria at the Furness Young Professionals event on 30th October (Friday). FYP aims to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of Furness. The Talk My talk will concentrate on: JFDI (Just Doing it) Encouraging others to just get on with developing their business idea and [...]

List of APIs for your Social Networks

Reblogged from the Kwiqq.com Updated (18/02/2009) the Instant Messenger / Voice Chat I believe 2009 was the year of the APIs (Application Programming Interface). Whether it is to login using OpenID, Facebook Connect or just to easily uploading videos to YouTube. The obvious advantages are: lower the barrier to entry for niche social network, quickly [...]

Survey Results: Why does a company need good board of directors?

Image via Wikipedia I recently asked on Facebook and Twitter as to why companies need agood BoD. Two answers summaries the sentiment fairly well. Shefaly Yogendra: Corporate governance, detached point ov and tough questions on strategy, holding execs to accountability. Anuvrat Singal: Board of directors / governors / trustees etc.: are required to oversee the [...]

Travel sector struggling to have conversations online

A few million of us each year leave our busy schedules behind and go and enjoy a holiday. Internet savvy users troll through sites like SkyScanner and Kayak to find ‘Cheap Holidays’ or ‘Popular Holidays’ on various websites. Often value for money and good booking experience plays an important role for us when purchasing these [...]

Bootstrapping and Innovation, don’t go together?

We have some fantastic example of high growth businesses, they tend to be in the IT, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, medical research etc. Although just being in these sectors and having an offering which is compelling isn’t good enough. Story Let me explain, I recently read a book which highlighted a company with an innovative product. [...]

Business Plan template to ‘Grow a business’

Image by Raymond Yee via Flickr For anyone looking to start a business. The document is a template of a business plan for developing a social networking software company. This business plan was built over three months in 2007, to plan our growth. The document serves as a mock business plan. Business Plan template to [...]

Kwiqq founder named Future50 alongside Twitter, Spotify..

This article has been reblogged from Kwiqq.com Revolution magazine released it’s list of 50 most influential people in Digital. In their own words: The Revolution Future 50 sets out to do the impossible: to name the individuals who will shape the digital industry of tomorrow. This time last year few people had heard to Twitter [...]