Posted by Alex Bellinger on 25th June 2008.
At a recent London dinner for geeks there was a sharp intake of breath and a flurry of questioning hands raised when Richard Moross, ceo of web 2.0 darlings MOO.com, revealed his company made a 70% margin on its mini-cards.
But as Moross was rightly keen to point out, MOO has had a fully functioning business [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 20th June 2008.
A weekend treat for BizPod TV fans out there, the latest is now live. Quirky stories for entrepreneurs wrapped up in PacMan mayhem.
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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 [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 16th April 2008.
‘Going solo’ - two little words which inspire excitement and fear in equal measure among most people who’ve ever thought seriously about quitting employment and becoming self-employed.
Whether you’re a freelancer, consultant or nascent small business owner your early days can very often feel like you’ve jumped out of the frying pan into a very hot [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 1st April 2008.
Some of you may have spotted BizPod TV, a new project that I’m very pleased to be working on. Click on the YouTube video below to see the latest episode and, if you enjoy it, please do subscribe via iTunes - just click here.
I knew when I set out to create a short, informative, [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 6th March 2008.
With new ways to communicate over the internet burgeoning and spam accounting for nearly 90% of all the messages in our inboxes, email all of a sudden seems like a killer headache rather than a ‘killer app’. And yet …
It’s still how the vast majority of businesses communicate online on a day-to-day basis. It’s [...]
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