Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
Back in June I was on stage with will.i.am when he announced his donation of £500k to the Prince’s Trust. It got me thinking about how I could also give something back. I’ve written before about how the Prince’s Trust helped me to start in business when noone else would. I owe them a…
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Stu Bradley
Marketing Executive
The fact that lots of guys in the London tech scene love bikes shouldn’t come as a surprise. The amount of opportunities cycling offers to talk about carbon fibre and ‘lightness of body’ are rivalled only by the launch of a new Apple product. Ok ok, we’ll remove our tongues from…
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Yesterday we asked our Facebook community how they strike a balance between their work and family lives. Below are some of their suggestions: Set aside one day a week to spend time with your kids. Switch off from work in their after school hours to spend time with them. Remember…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
I received an anonymous letter yesterday. It was a bit underwhelming at first due to the lack of letters cut out from newspaper headlines. But after I read through it, I realised it was potentially pretty explosive stuff. Essentially it was copies of letters sent at the end of last…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
You know how sometimes a song pops into your head and you can’t get it out until you play it? That happened to me this morning only it wasn’t a song, it was a document… When I first got into computers and the Internet in the early-mid 90′s there was already…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
Starting and growing a business is a lonely experience. Everyone thinks you’re mad and your family want to know when you’re going to “get a proper job”. The only people who can really relate to what you’re doing are others doing the same thing. When I got started, something I…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
I needed some head shots done of a couple of my co-directors to go on OrbitAccounts.com, a new product we launched yesterday. It was one of those rare occasions when we actually had everyone in the office, so took the opportunity for a group photo (click for larger version). L-R…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
Frivolous blog posts are traditionally reserved for Fridays. But lets have one on a Monday for a change. Over the weekend I moved into a new house. in a few of the rooms there was an odd device plugged in to the sockets. I had no idea what it wastest…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
I blogged 6 weeks ago about a series of events that caused me to put in place new growth plans for KashFlow. One of the important steps was moving our office from Basildon in Essex to central London. And now we’ve done it. We’re now in our great new office at…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
When you’re running a small business, it makes sense to engage with the media. They help get your story out there and can give you valuable free coverage in well-read publications. The last few years has seen the rise and rise of the blogger – a variation on the traditional journalist…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
TechCrunch have just published an article with 15 things to do whilst Twitter is down. I’ve gone with #8 – Write your own blog post about Twitter being down. As much as Twitter has become a part of my daily routine, so has the TechCrunch Europe site. It’s where I inevitably…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
Just a quick follow up to my earlier post, Wondering what to buy with your Christmas Amazon vouchers? After spending time on Twitter where we’re all supposedly reading what others are eating for breakfast, I’m assuming someone might care what I spent my vouchers on: How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the Worldtest…
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Duane Jackson
Founder & CEO
This is a scan of a leaflet from the recent Business Startup Exhibition. What’s wrong with it?
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