Bizarrely enough, the video we put up yesterday has just been followed by a new book today. Might be worth getting.

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Valuing companies is both a science and an art, something I learned in 10 years of equity analysis and investments. However, there’s a time to poke fun at valuations and the 37 Signals post did just that last week.

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One of the challenges with operating businesses that employ people in the UK is that there are very large incentives not to work. As this very helpful post from the Economics Essays blog points out, a person who gets all of the benefits from the UK Government may need to earn around £15,000 per year [...]

With an increasing amount of business time spent on social networking as a marketing channel, the art of writing longer communications is slightly in danger of getting lost. Not that that’s social networking’s fault, it’s more symptomatic of a societal shift to teaching and communicating via pictures and short messages rather than longer dialogues. When [...]

Spent the morning today working on Expediens, developing an updated marketing plan and reassessing touchpoints, propositions, offers, ROIs on marketing and setting clear action points and targets (the business is currently offering free trials and you can get hold of one if you email them). The afternoon should cover Elixir where I’ll be appraising a [...]

The reason we formed Seven Men Ltd was to create a model where we could be involved in business and use the proceeds of that to bring a material change to people at the edges of society. The last 13 months has been predominantly about business, and we would envisage this being the vast majority [...]

One of the most critical parts of any business is regularly creating space to think longer term than beyond the immediate. I do that by using the “dead spaces” of airports, flights, trains and buses, as well as making specific space for brainstorming but also reading. Regular reads include Fast Company, Growing Business, Fortune, most [...]

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This is a pretty mind blowing video and just reiterates the scale of changes the world is seeing currently. What an amazing business environment to be in.

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We’re having amazing weather in Edinburgh at the moment (btw, what time of the year is an Indian Summer if you’re in India?) and not surprisingly we’re beginning to see more stories of economic recovery in the press (Eddie George today). Staying on the positive theme, we’ve been shown a new product design and manufacturing [...]