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Lightbulb Moments

Tuesday 8th May 2012, 9:49pm

I stumbled across a document today, written over four years ago, and titled “Thoughts on Failure”. Written in February 2008, it was about Make Your Mark with a Tenner, which as friends may know has been under lock and key for some time, pending the upcoming announcements from the trustees of Enterprise UK. To cut [...]

Searching For People

Monday 16th April 2012, 3:16pm

There are some people you just have to meet. If you are lucky, they are easy to find. When I read about Professor Theodore Zeldin, I knew I had to meet him. Fortunately for me, following the feature in the Times newspaper, tracking him down to his Oxford chambers was far from tricky. His researcher was charming and [...]

Presented With An Opportunity

Tuesday 10th April 2012, 4:54pm

“That’s the trouble with young people today”. So begins a complaint heard all across the land… “The trouble with young people today, is that they all want to be TV PRESENTERS”. “Either that, or they want to be famous”. I take a slightly different view. I think that all young people should want to be presenters. [...]

Sharing What You Find

Sunday 15th January 2012, 8:46pm

“Our best thoughts come from others.” Ralph Waldo Emerson As all serious-minded people know, Twitter is the place where people tell the world what they are having for lunch, and share silly jokes. Well, in my case, I confess that the second may be partially true. On a more light-hearted note, Twitter is where [...]

Looking Back: Looking Forward

Wednesday 28th December 2011, 4:36pm

Somewhere, in the no man’s land between Christmas and New Year, feels like a good time to look back on 2011… Overall, I have been incredibly lucky to find two business partners (Tim Reading and Ed Sellwood) who are fun, rewarding to work with and (crucially), massively more organised then I am. We set up CoSpA (the Co-Sponsorship Agency) last summer [...]