This week saw the very latest in drone technology make its way into the Fluidata offices, courtesy of our Sales Manager, Michael. The Parrot AR Drone can only be described as a…
Let’s hope the attention to detail stays
Sad news this morning on the death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, who successfully brought the company back from obscurity and into the forefront of technology innovation. No small achievement, especially…
From Vision to Exit
I attended Guy Rigby’s book launch for ‘From Vision to Exit’ in the City recently. I’ve known Guy for a few years now in a professional capacity, so was intrigued to see…
A changed perspective
So last Friday saw me making my way to rural Somerset to collect my bank destroying, rib crushing, scary, horse like (read previous post!), and irrefutably handsome car. I was rather nervous…
Opex versus Capex
I had the opportunity to meet with a number of other business owners in the past few weeks and I was surprised at how many businesses are starting up renting a service…
Outsource or bring in-house?
I attended an interesting after work event in the city last night for entrepreneurs held at Smith & Williamson’s office in Moorgate. They had a number of speakers including Rachel Elnaugh (ex…
True fibre to the home
I have already banged the drum about the likes of BT and Virgin selling their broadband products as ‘fibre to the home’, when the cable coming into the home, is in fact…
Accountants can’t run successful companies
In recent dealings with a number of businesses, I have been surprised at the high level of finance people actually running the company concerned. I know there is meant to be a…
The speed of change
With the recent announcement of Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO at Apple there has been quite a lot of reflection in the papers on what impact he has made since returning…
Progress Report
So I am painfully close to taking delivery of the Atom, but it looks like I will be missing the summer and taking delivery about exactly the time I can’t do anything…
The new place in the med
I spent an enjoyable week with my father at his new home in Montenegro where he has setup a business, Montenegro Marine Services, supporting yachts and motor boats in their newest marina,…
The next big dip
I was greeted from my return from holiday to not just mass looting across London and the UK but also a significant market crash. Now though that seems to have taken a…
Apps continue to proliferate
I spent an interesting hour the other evening testing a new IPad app my bank are looking to launch later this year. I was expecting to go a long and just have…
New tyres
Isn’t it great when you receive service from a company you have never used before and it exceeds your expectations? It is probably the state of our society that ‘good’ and ‘service’…
Copying the ultimate flattery?
Great piece doing the rounds in the news yesterday was by a young American living in the remote town of Kunming in central China. The story starts with what looks like a…