Monthly Archives: January 2016
Business Insight 2 – Hiring the right people (vlog only)
Business Insight 1 – Delegation (vlog only)
Business Insight 5 – Flogging a dead horse! (blog & vlog)
INSIGHT 5:- A good businessman knows when to take a loss just as well as he knows how to make a profit. Biting the bullet and cutting your losses, getting shot of dead stock, not throwing good money after bad Read more ›
Business Insight 4 – Startup capital (blog & vlog)
1973 As far as I can remember it went something like this: Supertramp opened to a mini fanfare, as we had run out of money and didn’t have sufficient resources for a decent marketing splurge or a proper launch; our Read more ›
Business Insight 3 – My first business mistake (blog & vlog)
1972 My school friend Rodney Tate had started a record shop. I was massively impressed with this – he only ever wanted to work for himself and was truly the first genuinely entrepreneurial person of my acquaintance. I used to Read more ›
Business Insight 2 – Hiring the right people (blog & vlog)
INSIGHT 2:- I got 4 ‘O’ levels in English, maths, geography, and woodwork and a couple of CSEs in technical drawing and metalwork. Note that I failed physics at ‘O’ level and didn’t take art at all; however, an older Read more ›
Business Insight 1 – Delegation (blog & vlog)
1970 Having failed as a rock star, I got a job as a ‘Trainee Work Study Engineer’ with a clothing manufacturer in Eastbourne. The famous ‘up market’ clothing brand Jaeger had a total of 17 factories in the UK (back Read more ›