The phone call came at 2 o’clock this morning. A friend nearby has been feeling sick and she finally decided to call me, nervous that she might collapse in the night. I went round, stroked her hair, made sure she could sleep safely through till morning. A few hours after publishing the latest blog post, [...]
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You’d think that having passion as the motivating force behind starting a business would make the process easier. In many ways, it does. We don’t mind spending hours on it and our enthusiasm is genuine and contagious, making it easier to ‘sell’ whatever we’re offering. But joyful, ecstatic, all-engrossing passion is an ingredient which also [...] I’m swimming The English Channel. Well okay, not literally, but quantitively. My gym has launched ‘Channel Challenge’ where we sign up and keep tally of our lengths between now and the end of August, aiming to rack up 21 miles in total. When I first saw it advertised, the idea was intriguing. I asked a [...] I was the columnist in The London Paper last week, suggesting that the recession is a good thing. Readers vote on whether they want more of you… and 96% did. I also had many comments calling this point of view “refreshing” and “inspiring”. In this, I hear a whispered hope for a move away from [...] This is Global Entrepreneurship Week and to mark its start, I volunteered at the first day of Chain Reaction, an event which saw 700 people gather to explore how entrepreneurship can be a source of social good. There was a variety of inspirational speakers including Tim Smit of the Eden Project, Sophi Tranchell of Divine [...] |
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