Mentor's Journal
The middle of December is a strange time of year for all. Some are already starting to slow down and getting into the full swing of the season’s festivities, whilst others...
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Finance
In my opening article in this ‘Money Matters!’ series I asked a number of basic questions about personal finance that everyone should be able to answer at least in general terms...
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So…you’ve decided you’re going to set up your own business and this time you are really going to do it...
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Mentor's Journal
Different things drive different people in different ways. That is because each of us wants something different from our lives and we are prepared to make different levels of ...
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Mentor's Journal
I am sure that each and every one of us would accept that we cannot be good at everything that we do, or that we do not have time to do everything ourselves.
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Finance
I have been in and around the financial service sector the whole of my working life and indeed studied Commerce and Economics at school, so I guess that that shapes my view on...
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Mentor's Journal
In each of our lives, some weeks are more predictable than others. Some people are a little afraid of change and facing new, unexpected challenges, whilst others face the world...
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Mentor's Journal
Over the last two weeks I have written special articles on ‘Business Plans and Pitch Decks’ and on ‘The Art of Fundraising’ but this week I return to writing 'The Mentor’s Journal'
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As a mentor I get involved in a huge cross section of businesses in different sectors and at different stages of their development. As a result I have been involved in many...
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As readers of either my Mentor’s Perspective or Mentor’s Journal series will know, one of the most common themes that I come across is that of fundraising in all its guises.
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Mentor's Journal
Most of us would associate the phrase ‘fit for purpose’ with a product or service that we have seen or used, but that we do not think actually does what it is meant to do.
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This was one of those weeks that saw me meeting with business from every possible stage of growth from ‘enter stage left’ to being a massive player that is looking for...
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The old saying that ‘from little acorns mighty oaks grow’ came about to show that sometimes something very large can grow from something very small.
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When I think about all of my conversations and meetings last week there was a very common thread tying them all together, and that was of people or businesses reinventing...
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Just as last week’s Mentor’s Journal led me neatly into my article, 'The Power of Networking', so this week started off very much in the same vein with all my early meetings...
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Welcome to the first of a periodic series of articles that will take a more in depth look at some of the topics that make frequent appearances in my Mentor’s Journal series.
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This was one of those weeks where everything seemed to be on fast forward. Not just the number of meetings but the speed of progress in the companies that I met was truly...
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This week was quite typical in that it was an unusual mix of many of the things that I get involved with as a mentor and that I have written about in the past. There was some...
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One thing that I have learned over the years is the importance of cooperation and working with the right partners, and this has only been reiterated during my activities as a...
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This week I met with Deputy Chief Constable Jo Shiner at Sussex Police to talk about all the many ways that businesses of any size can work together with the police for the...
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This week, almost to underline my comments in the first of this series about not knowing what each week will bring, was almost entirely different to last week. Last week was...
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