A former client, Onzo , has successfully raised venture money and orders worth £9m. more here sadly nothing on their own website…. Onzo is a data systems development business, with specific intellectual property relating to the development of display devices thatsupport smart metering systems. Scottish and Southern has also placed initial orders worth over GBP [...]
Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning does an annual residential course called "Igniting Enterprise" It's a all-you-need to get started course where the attendees are expected to come with an idea for a new business that they can use as the model for all the lectures. I think the focus is on [...]
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If you are interested or curious about what the Current Big Thing called Social Media is, who does it and what they are working on / talking about. There are a wide range of great groups mainly based inLondon (sorry outatowners) that happen most weeks / months. If you ahve a reason to come to [...]
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What will it be like when consumers control their own data and become the driver of relationships with vendors? Went to another VRM Lonodn meeting last week organised by Adriana Lukas. Richard Marr has written a good synopsis of his undestanding with some very handy 'use cases" illustrating what VRM might be used for in [...]
I met Tim at SXSW earlier this month. He has written a seminal book called the Four Hour Work Week and it's being launched in London next week. Tim has set up a pub sessio for any Uk blogger / social media types who fancy hooking up with him. Wednesday 2nd April in the Chandos [...]
I've been online with Twitter for a few months now and here are 5 top tips on how to use it Find top bloggers in your space and follow them. Read the links they post – you often get the scoop early and can be commenter #1 Browse your favourite bloggers and see who follows [...]
Fast Company article about Tim Ferriss and his tactics for getting "known" online. Go where the bloggers are. Read the blogs of the people you want to cover you. Send bloggers interesting stories — especially about other people. Start blogging. Don't send press releases. Simple. Tim will be in London next week – details here [...]
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Jonny just published the video he did of me on YouTube. He's going to do a mash-up map showing where his interviewees came from to SXSW in Austin. Bookmark to: Hide Sites $$(‘div.d383′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Reading the Busienss section yesterday evening… these are the people listed as the Media Industry's rising stars: top 40 under 40. These ones interest me: Ajaz Ahmed, Founder an dchairman of AKQA Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo Neil Chugani, FD BBC Worldwide [my interest is more in his former international rowing career!] Nick Gregg, Founder [...]
Customer data has been an important part of the advice I give most of my clients for a long time – since I worked for Peppers and Rogers I have tended to suggest that it be called Customer Relationship Management or CRM. But that time is now moving into the past. The future is about [...]
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