Archive for April, 2007

Almost 1/5th of Britain’s young people do absolutely nothing

April 17th, 2007 by Ed Singleton

An interesting response to a Telegraph article here.  Apparently there are huge numbers of young people doing absolutely nothing.  Are there really huge numbers of people who will happily spend their lives doing nothing?  Should we just let them do it?
The article, and the Government define ‘doing nothing as ‘not in education, employment or training’.  Read more…

Bootstrapping Life

April 4th, 2007 by Ed Singleton

There’s an interesting post at: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/bootstrapping-life-five-tips.html which discusses the idea of enterprise through ‘bootstrapping’, ie strarting with nothing and reinvesting everything into your enterprise to build it up organically.  It means you don’t need to get loans or funding, and your business doesn’t grow faster than your cash flow.
It’s an interesting way of addressing the Read more…

Inspirational business leaders

April 4th, 2007 by hbourne

Here’s a poll you can take part in to find the UK’s most inspirational business leaders. http://www.edgeupstarts.org/2007/eu07poll.php
Whilst I accept that age and experience can count for a lot I really hope that this poll throws up some exceptional young business leaders. I’m fed up of seeing Richard Branson and Anita Roddick on these kinds of Read more…