According to a recent Bank of Scotland survey into work-life balance, the average UK entrepreneur puts in 50 hours’ work per week. The Bank of Scotland survey also shows a clear relationship between hours and commercial success. For those companies growing at over 10% a year the average working week is 52.3 hours. My online [...]
Archive for August, 2008
20 Aug
“…and for that reason – I won’t be investing.”
I AM A DRAGON – HEAR ME ROAR. Well, calling me Puff is probably more appropriate, but let me explain how I came to utter these words. Over the last year, I’ve started to receive approaches from people who want to get start up a web business, usually related to my areas of expertise – [...]
18 Aug
The Olympics Chinese Style – Lions Riding Horses
Awesome: Okay, it’s a bit sick. Maybe. But I gotta admit, I’d pay money to see this. According to the Daily Fascist, a zoo in south-east China runs these displays. First the horsey gets mounted by the lion, then a tiger jumps on for a ride. Live animals are fed to the tigers in front [...]
8 Aug
New Aston Martin Announced – pricier than a Veyron
Typical – you put a deposit down for a new car and the new week a faster, prettier version is announced. This one though, is something rather special – with a limit of just 77 cars to be produced: According to Evo Magazine, Aston Martin has released a snapshot of the stunning new One-77, its [...]
7 Aug
Cute eBay Video Application
I’ve got a weekend of crap clearing ahead – emptying our old clothes, wardrobes and eBaying a bunch of old stuff which is still high value (my iPod Touch hasn’t got a look-in since I got the iPhone). Today we were approached by a video company wanting to get into white label video: http://vzaar.com/ They’re [...]
5 Aug
I’m a Featured Columnist Daaahling
We’ve been enjoying some really good PR over the last few months. As part of this, I’ve been asked to contribute to a number of different print and online titles. It was great to be asked to contribute as a featured columnist for Mediatel.co.uk – the UK’s largest single source of media intelligence: http://www.mediatel.co.uk/?newslink=/newsline/2008/08aug/05/column.cfm Thanks [...]
5 Aug
Can’t sell your home? Install a pet shower
As some of you may know, my rather lovely apartment is on the market with Savills in Windsor – alas quite frankly it isn’t likely to sell in the current market so we’re probably going to need to rent it out from October. I’ve been looking around a lot and apparently where we’re going wrong [...]
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