Today, the 28th May 2012, the UK government have launched a Start-Up Loans scheme enabling 18-24 year old’s to apply for a loan of up to £2,500 to launch any business idea that they may have. A total of up to £82.5million has been put aside in order to kick-start the UK economy via investment [...]
Read More startup loanI recently headed off to the 2-Screen event, an event that discusses how social media has become integral to our lives. This was a very good event, and one talk in particular that stood out was given by Channel 4′s Matt Locke. Matt gave some awesome insight into the shapes of the audiences who watch [...]
Read More activism, social media - what next?, TribesFor me, it is the most liberating thing in the world, to not fear failure. Getting a business or an idea off the ground is not easy. However, our chances of success are limited if we focus on what the result will be if we fail. I am not afraid of failure. I am not [...]
Read More never fear failure, opportunity, peter jonesLast week I wrote a blog entitled, What happened to thenerve.tv? which was Part 1 of an attempt to explain what has happened to an idea that I had been working on for some time. In Part 1 I explained that there had been some distance between two projects that I have worked on and I [...]
Read More failure, lessons learnt, Rock ControlI have been involved in launching two businesses, thenerve.tv and Rock Control, each of which had high hopes, dreams and intentions but both just simply didn’t work out. I now feel that I have some distance from these ideas in order to accurately reflect on why they did not work out in the hope that [...]
Read More Endemol, failure, thenerve.tvThe subject of this blog came from @DHS , who suggested that I wrote about the subject of ‘determination’. Interestingly, this subject is one that I have been thinking about over the past week and so it’s quite apt. This blog, thank’s to DHS, is on determination and here is what I want to say. I used [...]
Read More Alex Tew, Determination, DHS, donothingfor2minutes, MillionDollarHomepage, popjamHow many times did it take Edison to make the light bulb? Various quotes suggest between 5 – 10,000. How many attempts have there been to find a cure for cancer? Hundreds. How many businesses start as one business proposition but end up as something completely different? Many. One recent case in point is Groupon, which [...]
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