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Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th July 2008.
Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them by the thousand, filters out those most likely to succeed and then has a stab at commercialising them. The business, called SleepyDog, has had a few major ‘hits’, most notably in the field of mobile telephony security and later with [...]
Posted by Simon Lawrence on 8th July 2008.
I’m sure we’ve all been subject to a torrent of cringe-worthy office clichés at some point in our working lives. I mean how often have you sat in a meeting and heard someone utter one of these unforgivable words or phrases
‘Moving Forward’
‘Leverage’
‘Facilitate’
‘Touch Base’
‘Close of Play / End of Play’
‘Blue sky thinking’
‘No idea is a bad [...]
Posted by The Hound on 20th June 2008.
We’ve had a long tradition of highlighting startups and giving them a chance to tell their story here on the SmallBizPod blog. Here’s one with a difference. Stay tuned to find out whether the daring Hound will succeed in getting a hedge fund startup off the ground.
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“You’re trying to set a hedge fund [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 27th May 2008.
Twitter has been mentioned a few times in SmallBizPod a few times during the past year. It’s a web service that allows you to post short messages about what you’re doing at any moment. These can be picked up on computers and mobile phones. In itself, Tweeting sounds totally insane. As I’ve said before, “Who [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 24th March 2008.
Two huge organisations have approached me recently, asking whether and how they should set about using social media tools to reach out to parts of their community with whom they don’t have a particularly good relationship at the moment.
One was a country - the people who surround the leader came to me via a mutual [...]
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