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One thing that life has taught me in my own life as well as working with entrepreneurs is that you must kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince. By that I mean that finding a good advisor is amazingly difficult. I was reminded of this recently when my wife and I were...

Over recent weeks I have had some interesting discussions with parents regarding their children’s education. One such discussion started when I was shown a child’s report of someone that I knew was very bright. The report bore this out, but the parent was concerned that the teacher’s comment from the previous year said, ‘exceeded expectations’...

I come from a time when ‘woke’ meant the past tense of wake and when ‘cancel culture’ meant that the symphony concert had been postponed. This may seem slightly flippant, but today’s world does give me concern for the future of entrepreneurship.  I also come from a time when logic determined solutions and where healthy...

We are fast approaching the time of year when exam results are going to be received either with joy or despair. This assumes that these few weeks in summer will determine success or failure for the next fifty years. Sadly, the people that wait for these results are not the those taking the examinations, but...

I joined LinkedIn many years back because it was a valuable business tool and a way to connect with other relevant businesspeople. I still use it for that purpose but am increasingly annoyed by the difficulty of finding the important business posts. Over the last few weeks, I have been investigating why this may be,...

Over the course of my working life, I have often been required to judge a winner in a new business competition, whether for an award, grant or loan. This week I again find myself judging the entrants for the Enterprise Breakthrough Award for new businesses in the creative subjects at my old university. As I...

As someone that has worked for a major IT supplier for 20 years and uses a smartphone, laptop, and tablet, I regard myself as reasonably competent with technology. However, an experience at the weekend made me take a closer look at the impact of the smartphone on everyday life. I am living in Malaysia, and...

I have always believed that the sense of entrepreneurship that is embodied in the young is what will find the solutions to the constant new challenges that face the world we live in. Throughout my work with young people, I have seen how the creative minds, coupled with the enthusiasm and drive of young people...

Over two years ago my wife and I spent fourteen days in quarantine in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on our return from Turkey. While it was hardly the most exciting thing to do, particularly with a chef who seemed to revel in his ability to get chicken into every meal, it was a small...

It seems a long time since I sat and wrote a blog, largely because of the requirement to replace a failing right knee with a chromium German one! But at least it has given me an opportunity to reflect over the last couple of months and to come to some conclusions. The knee problem itself...