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Category: Business

Microsoft @Surface…Sinofsky Surcess or Surfail?

Microsoft Surface…Sinofsky Surcess or #Surfail? OK, I’m not a techy geek or anything like that but The Bloke had pre-ordered the new MS Surface and was looking forward to the delivery of his new toy on 26 Oct. Friday 26th came and went with no delivery. There was furor on twitter from the...

BBC head out to @KERB_ | London #StreetFood

BBC News 24 finds out about #StreetFood at @KERB_ in London’s King’s Cross BBC News 24 head down to King’s Cross to check out the UK’s StreetFood movement. They talk to @KERB_ founder Petra Barron, James Elliot of Pizza Pilgrims and Tom Adams of Pit Cue Co who has...

Pizza on Wheels in Reigate…yes it’s true

There has been a recent increase in popularity of street food and it’s now creeping into sleepy Surrey. A couple of weeks ago I saw a tweet about freshly made outdoor pizza being on my doorstep and this Tuesday decided to pop down and see what the fuss is...

Richard Reed is Not So Innocent | BBC Three “Be Your Own Boss”

Richard Reed is Not So Innocent… …Well not so innocent to the difficulties and challenges of starting up a new business that is. Richard Reed, the co-founder of Innocent Drinks, is fronting a new series for BBC3, Be Your Own Boss and he has up to £1million of his...

Home Grown (Reading) Chicken

It’s Not Arthur’s…It’s Yours This is probably a Michael Cain moment, in that “not a lot of people know that”. I just thought I would take a minute to champion a local Reading business which stretches nationally and internationally. I am talking about the brand Southern Fried Chicken. Now...

Interview with Richard Reed

Richard Reed is the co-founder of Innocent Drinks. An incredible success story that has seen the brand rise from selling forty smoothies in one week in 1999 to over two million smoothies per week today. I caught up with Richard who told me all about the rollercoaster of peaks...

Are You A Guerilla?

Guerilla marketing is not  just for the corporates however, I feel that small businesses are perhaps not grasping the stratgey and techniques that the companies with the big spend have. You don’t have to have huge budgets to be creative and hone down what they are doing. It can...

What Type Of ‘Preneur’ Are You?

Why have I got a picture of The Red One from Ella’s Kitchen posted on here? The story is that I remember founder, Paul Lindley, coming into the Delicatessen I owned back in 2005 clutching two pouches of smoothies, one red, one yellow (those were the two products then)...

Is All That Glitters David Gold?

In November I was at the Business Start-Up Business Show at Olympia and had the opportunity to chat to David Gold, Chairman of Ann Summers and now the newly appointed joint Chairman of West Ham United Football Club, where he was appearing as a Keynote Speaker. He was very...