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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Category: business
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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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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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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Entrepreneurship: action this day!
One of the things you quickly learn about running a small rapidly growing business is that the sooner you do something, the sooner its impact is felt. Moreover, the ability to do something and then[…]
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Wanted: Scale-ups
A report published just over a year ago by Sherry Coutu CBE, non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange, titled “The Scale-up Report on UK Economic Growth” highlighted some of the challenges of ensuring that small medium enterprises are[…]
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