Entrepreneur grows home-based translations business international

From time to time like to feature guest bloggers on my site. This is a story of Christian Arno who founded Lingo24, business more or less bootstrapped from the beginning. Lingo24 translated over thirty million words in 2009, covering clients in over sixty countries and every industry sector. Their turnover in the twelve months to September [...]

Google Wave killer, Nurphy.com

Recently I bumped into Neil from Nurphy at an event. He was telling us about his application Nurphy. At first you might think yet another start-up, although actually it’s truly a fantastic app see what New York Times and Read Write Web are saying. So what does it do? The application is puts your conversation [...]

Words from the wise (article in The Observer)

Reblogging article in the Observer (Thanks Olivia Gordan) There’s no secret formula for succcess and every entrepreneur has their own idea of how to achieve it. Four network members share their advice Raj Anand Recently announced as one of the 50 most influential people in the digital industry by Revolution magazine, Raj Anand is one [...]

How Social Media is influencing Innovation inside Companies

The presentation I’m doing today at Cliq Project covers how social media is encouraging innovation. It looks at sites like InnoCentive and MyStarbucksIdea but also Facebook and Twitter as a source of innovation. It also briefly looks at the concept of Government, Industry and Universities (triple helix) causing innovation and how public powered by social [...]

Sussex University Alumni Video

I must say great job with the video and indeed a fatastic way to promote university education. For people who know me, you would appreciate that I need to work on my acting skills. The video contains footage of me trying to reenact time at Kwiqq.Enjoy! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2009%2F11%2F12%2Fsussex-university-alumni-video%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Sussex+University+Alumni+Video’; addthis_pub = ”;

Bye bye Kwiqq, start of the next chapter!

Kwiqq has been an exciting opportunity for me and everyone. Firstly I want to say a BIG thank you to everyone who worked with us: our team, customers and all supporters/friends/family for being through the ups and downs. In short we have decided to close Kwiqq and work on other opportunities. Below I have written [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]