When you write a journal article you are trying to do a number of things. You are; Disseminating the information you have gathered Keeping the literature up to date Telling your story and defending your position Putting your head above the parapet Having written your article and had it accepted you feel very pleased with… Continue reading Journal Letters – continuing a saga
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Meet the Dragons
…after you’ve crossed my palm with silver. There’s always been a healthy market in one group of people selling access to a small second group of people that a third, larger group of people value. In many circumstances this is entirely right and proper. I was recently at the 31st International Conference on Small Business… Continue reading Meet the Dragons
How Many? Part the Second
I just posted an example where I’d worked up an Addressable Market calculation based on fairly good data. Of course, this data isn’t usually available; or it’s really expensive. One of the services that jbsh offer is business consultancy, mainly strategic growth plans and help with the business planning activity. So what’s the addressable market… Continue reading How Many? Part the Second
How many? Part the First
Something that makes an appearance fairly early in a business plan is the addressable market size. This is usually the point where after some mumbo-jumbo you’d end up with something like “…and thus we only need 1% to secure $100m turnover.” Mark Davies has a good post on the subject from a VC perspective but… Continue reading How many? Part the First
Key activity indicators of successful companies
What makes successful companies different? What a great research question, and one that the University of Strathclyde posited a couple years back. They followed up with 37 companies, in 8 EU countries and gathered over 1,000 stories (interview descriptions of processes and activities). Catherine Maguire from Strathclyde was presenting their findings. They began with the… Continue reading Key activity indicators of successful companies
Pleasure vs Pain
David Gilroy from Conscious Solutions nailed it at a Bristol Enterprise Network event last week when asked what changes he was making to his product to sell better in a recession. “Absolutely none”. The pitch to clients is changing, however, from how a great website can enhance your offering to one that points out how… Continue reading Pleasure vs Pain
Survival planning
On a dark and stormy Tuesday morning, with tales of economic melt down on R4, I wasn’t sure if anyone would turn up to Open Coffee. I shouldn’t have worried, Bristolians are made of stern stuff. We even had a friendly bank manager type along to see what the excitement was about. In addition to… Continue reading Survival planning
Diving Diseases Research at Dive 2008
I have had the pleasure of working at the ‘Diving Diseases Research Centre’ for more than 9 years. One of the things that I have been involved in numerous times over that period is staffing the stand at the national dive shows. DDRC’s introduction to the world reads ‘DDRC – Is a charity providing support… Continue reading Diving Diseases Research at Dive 2008
Day at the Beach with Flexifoil
(Disclosure: this post relates to my work with Knowledge West, it also doesn’t have that much to do with technology, start-ups etc) One of the great aspects of my life is working with very cool companies that are doing very cool things and making very cool products. Unfortunately most of my work is around developing… Continue reading Day at the Beach with Flexifoil
Publications – Just like buses!
Sometimes you can be working on projects for years and you can feel that no substantial outputs are ever going to come from them. Then all of a sudden stuff happens! Sometimes the stuff is further funding, sometimes it is conference abstracts, posters or oral presentations and sometimes you get publications. That is the case… Continue reading Publications – Just like buses!