At Hong Kong airport and met this entrepreneur. Using technology from Japan, his company inkjet prints onto tyres. The artwork lasts for about three years.
I wonder if the inkjet print heads were designed in the Cambridge Cluster?
Mr Wright is standing next to a flagpole which he sponsors at the rugby grounds of Loughborough University. He is the fifth or sixth generation of his family to run M Wright & Sons Limited, started in 1860, and since 1870 based on the same site at the nearby village of Quorn.
The company makes technical webbing used in safety harnesses and the top of Wimbledon tennis nets for example. They are manufacturers and employ fifty people.
Amazing company and generous sponsors. No business plan resource is required.
Training night before the last game of the year. We are on the edge of the Fens, 70miles from the sea and only 70 feet above sea level.
This book has got some great lessons but it is a confusing read. I am sure that Ben Casnocha has much to offer but we read the book because Reid Hoffman is one of the leading entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and a prolific angel investor. We want to hear his voice clearly in the first person.
Reid needed a ghost writer stepping back and leaving the star to shine clearly and brightly.
I am not sure about all the emphasis I find in our American friends about who you know. Does it help you find the stars of the future? To me the key point is that if you don’t like selling, go get a job.
Being an entrepreneur is all about selling – selling to the close of the deal. It is not about ideas and fireside chats. In the corporate world it may be good to have lots of links but entrepreneurs starting out need a few strong links and little noise.
The NHS is using Duofertility in the hospital in Lancaster and CEO and Joint Founder, Shamus, looks delighted. Mixed feelings for me as it is the same hospital in which my Father breathed his last. The start of life and the end as it has always been.
Airbnb, funded American style with $120million, takes out London based Crashpadd.
No figures given for the deal but Cambridge graduate Dan Hill “done well”. Would the roles have been reversed if he had raised VC funds?
Good to see Heikki and team.
It was good to see the new product.
Amazing to be sitting in Ambleside, UK, watching the Founder of WordPress being interviewed at LeWeb in Paris safe inside from the snow with my iPad working well. Lucky to have some speakers to hand so I can sit back and listen and learn.
Amazing connected world.
And Robert Scoble coming to London this evening.
Reading The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha. On page 55 they record the advise given to Sheryl Sandberg by then Google CEO Eric Schmidt “Get out of the weeds. Go where there’s fast growth, because fast growth creates all opportunities“.
Come and work in the new world of Cambridge Cluster, UK, or Silicon Valley. If not you are going to have to be an amazing operator in an established market.
Hard work either way. Which turns you on and is your vocation?
