Category: Advice

The start of the New Year is often the time people start assessing their careers and consider making a change.

To get a more confident You in the new year — or a more confident company, community, family, or team — first know what gets in the way.

The brains behind some of the biggest London based startups will be on hand next year to offer London’s entrepreneurs the ingredients for growth at a new “Start-up Kitchen” in Hackney, east London.

Would Pollyanna have made a good businesswoman? Could a little girl with an incredibly infectious positivity bias have made money in austere times? Or would her optimism have gone no further than the homeless people of whom she was one?

Almost half of entrepreneurs need to ask friends and family for loans in order to start up their new business, according to research by Entrepreneur Country. I know first hand how difficult it is to get banks to invest in new business, particularly in the current economic climate.

When it comes time to sell your company, marketing will play a bigger role than you might suspect. Here’s how to prepare.

Before we can achieve long-term sustainable success, we need to understand the reasons why we are currently not achieving it.

We all suffer from inattention blindness. We focus so intently on a particular task that we don’t notice the weird thing that’s right there in plain view.

Ambition is all about pushing yourself beyond your perceived limits. If you’re not taking on reach goals and slightly terrifying challenges than you’re unlikely to reach your full potential.

Whatever you’re about to do, it’s incredibly important–and you’re incredibly nervous. Here’s how to get a quick shot of confidence.

The Cryptolocker Ransomware attack is the latest in a long line of viruses that demand money to be cleaned. In fact, one of the earliest pieces of malware that was written specifically to make money, rather than simply to prove a point, was the AIDS Information Trojan of 1989.

The list of mistakes made when organising and running team meetings or events is long. I should know, I’ve made most of them over the years.

I have children, two in fact, so had two maternity leave periods. On the whole it was not too difficult an experience as the companies I worked for were quite forward thinking and progressive in their approach and understanding of such matters.