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…
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…
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…
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…
The next generation of entrepreneur
Last week I spent an enjoyable two days at my old secondary school helping the Lower Sixth with a business course that the school was running. As part of this they needed…
Banks take their piece
I read an interesting piece by Business Insider on the recent IPO of LinkedIn and how their founders and shareholders have been screwed by their underwriters. Bank of America and Morgan Stanley…
A nice place to work
Last year we were nominated for the London Health Commission awards, held at City Hall. I had forgotten all about this until they sent through a copy of the film they had…
Monster moves in next door
This week sees the completion of 7 More London which, as of next month, will become the home of Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). In a plan to consolidate some of their London offices,…
How can business have trust in the cloud?
I have been interested in the events over the past couple of weeks which has seen Google suffer problems on their network, and even the like of Vodafone loosing connectivity in the…
Who is a CEO?
I have had a few meetings recently where it has become apparent that everyone running businesses seem to believe they are CEOs (Chief Executive Officer). Surely the correct title would be Managing…
Understanding the VAT change
With the New Year came the much publicised VAT increase from 17.5% to 20%. One thing that hasn’t been as well publicised is the actual date that it took place, namely 4th…
Customer gifts at Christmas?
As Christmas fast approaches we decided this year to send our mugs again to clients as a thank you for choosing Fluidata. Not hugely extravagant gift, but it does add up when…
An award ceremony which actually has credibility
I went last week to Deloitte’s award ceremony for their Technology Fast 50 list and also dinner for their Technology Fast 500 EMEA at Arsenal football ground. Now usually I am a…