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…
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…
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,…
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…
Another year, another Goodwood
I am recovering after my weekend of debauchery at Henley Regatta and Goodwood Festival of Speed. Goodwood was another superb day and even with its familiar format from last year it managed…
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…
How to drift
I spent an enjoyable day yesterday at Silverstone with Caterham learning how to drift. For those of you without petrol coursing through your veins basically controlled skidding. The idea is to enable…
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…
London could learn a bit from Hong Kong
I have been lucky enough to have had a bit of holiday last week and spent it in Hong Kong, my new number one city (after London of course). Having never visited…
Sort of like owning a horse
Well the time has come for me to firm up my specification for the Atom which will hopefully be with me before the end of the summer… It went quicker than I…
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…