The UK has a productivity challenge: workers don’t appear to be producing as much in an hour as they could, compared with workers in other developed nations like US, Germany and France. This is not[…]
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Author: adrianburden
Could Newton have found three laws of entrepreneurship?
Sir Isaac Newton was a renowned 17th Century scientist who, among other things, formulated his three famous laws of motion that to this day are taught at school and underpin classical physics. When Newton was alive,[…]
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HMRC needs to get its online act together
Today, my co-founder and I decided we would register our high technology UK-based start-up for VAT. We are already enrolled on the HMRC’s digital service called Government Gateway, so it ought to be a 5[…]
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If only an exit was this easy
Exits are usually illuminated and clearly marked. The doors often open outwards to make egress even more straightforward. If only exiting a business was as easy as leaving a building. In reality, growing a business[…]
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Start-up as you mean to go on
To paraphrase Matthew 7:24-27… 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise entrepreneur who built his business on the rock. 25 The depression came along, the costs[…]
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Make your way calmly towards the exit
People whom are lucky enough to survive a fire tend to be those positioned near an emergency exit, having clocked the evacuation route ahead of time, and are sufficiently alert and agile to jump to action[…]
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Creating leverage in your business
Mechanical levers have been used by human civilisation to reduce the effort needed to move objects since the Stone Age and thus helping lasting monuments such as Stonehenge and the Pyramids to be constructed. Archimedes[…]
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Does your business lase?
When an army is marching in step, there is a powerful resonance that can instil fear in the heart of the enemy. The regimented advance is focused, controlled and impressive. So much so that battalions[…]
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Is there a Moore’s Law for business?
Back in the 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would through technological advance double every (two) year(s). He made one prediction based on the period of a year, and[…]
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Shedding light on the startup spectrum
Not all businesses are created equal. When an entrepreneur or group of would-be co-founders set out to start a new venture, their business idea and mindset will often define where on the enterprise spectrum their[…]
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