This is a book review from Nigel Botterill “Jon, hi, good morning. It’s Nigel here. I’ve read The Entrepreneur Test Just wanted to thank you properly for bringing me that launch day copy of your book on Friday. I really did appreciate that. I’ve read the book over the weekend, read all of it. I […]
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I’d like to talk to you today about an alternative video. This came up after a conversation last week, I received a call from a company that was planning to create a promotional video. A video that included people funnily enough. Well, with social distancing, they couldn’t amass the crew, let alone the actors. So
The Entrepreneur Test Do you think Alan Sugar knew he could run a multi-million-pound business when he was 15? Probably not. Did Richard Branson know he would build businesses around the world? I doubt it. So what enabled them to do it? And yet you hear of others that fail the first fence. To be
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Hi guys. No, this isn’t my latest COVID-19 situation. But what I will do is take the helmet off because putting on this T-shirt this morning reminded me of something that may be of benefit to you guys. About two years ago, my wife and I, Sandy, we went on a biker down course. It’s
22:45 on 14th February 2014. Having built our little company up so that it was self-sufficient we had no idea as to what was going to happen on the night of the 14th of February. We had built up a good reputation and secured business from companies like RIM (now renamed as BlackBerry), Vodafone and
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Chapter 35 The Valentine’s Day Massacre It is very important to work with your chimp if you try to wrestle your chimp you are likely to lose. As detailed earlier in this book, the consensus that a chimp is five times stronger than a human, and you wouldn’t wrestle a chimp in real life so,
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Chapter 34 The Valentine’s Day Massacre “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill. Having built our little company up so that it was self-sufficient we had no idea as to what was going to happen on the night of the 14th February. We had
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Chapter 33 Starting Tickling Trout “Tickling Trout – nothing to do with ‘Trout’ or ‘Tickling’ but a lot to do Bombay Gin” Jon Newlyn For years I thought about starting my own company but I had all the excuses in the world, or rather, as I know now, my chimp had all the excuses in
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Chapter 32 The Redundancy “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.” ― Harry Truman 2003 and the downturn that appeared to have been kicked off after 9/11 was in full swing. A number of my peers had already gone and it was only a matter
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Chapter 31 The hijacked meeting “If women had power what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can?” ― Ursula K. Le Guin This is a story which I’m sure has played out for you all in varying ways. It is deeply frustrating because you
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