We’ve been admiring a lot of the social entrepreneurial projects kicking off in the USA such as:
- One day’s wages
- Two futures project
- Plywood people
We’ve noticed that these can gain amazing traction in a really short period of time and that this is bringing funding and support. There’s still a query around sustainability – can [...]

Our business model is pretty straightforward – create businesses, generate profits, give the money away. But it’s also unusual in its purpose, and not easily categorisable (is that a word?) as a corporate or as a social enterprise due to specifics of the entity. So when I’m asked what it is I do, the best [...]

Nice to see some great press about Elixir over the last few days. Firstly in Business7 (on p7) and then in Scotland on Sunday at the weekend.

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Most of our time currently is spent on developing Elixir, our new business incubator. We’re already receiving applications for this, and starting to get through the screening and valuation process. As we do this, the odd hole is coming up, as you’d expect with any business process. It’s good to nail these early doors. We’ve [...]

Apparently one of the main reasons for companies going out of business is that they have forgotten to focus on cashflow, in particular on making sure that they grow at a rate consistent with their cash. It’s easy to see why this could be the case. If you are a small company making £25,000 of [...]

We’d love to see one of these for the UK – a heat map of the US that shows where every McDonalds is.

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