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Emma: Week 6

Now I have my idea I need to work out how best to communicate it to the outside world.

I started by doing one side of A4 describing my plans for the business, what it will do, who will buy and why they will buy. That document is attached.

I had to rewrite that a few times before I was really happy with it. Then I had to boil those ideas down to just a paragraph! Here's what I wrote:

Leeds has a thriving financial services sector, bringing a lot of highly paid professionals to the city centre during the day. many of these people are health conscious and are members of a gym or are following a diet, but at lunch they don't get a proper, nutritious, light meal - they end up eating fast food, or even nothing. My business will provide them with convenient, fast, healthy and tasty food. Our variety, quality and service will allow us to command a premium price.

Then I had to write just one sentence!!!

My business will provide busy office workers with a healthy alternative for a fast, tasty lunch.

And i managed to get it to be even shorter!

Fast, healthy lunches for busy people.

There's nothing I can patent about my idea, so now I can tell the world! I'm going to go and get lots of feedback from people and will post it here soon!

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Week 6 Attachment

In week 6 we should be able to view Emma's A4 document, but I cannot find it anywhere on this site. Could someone please point me in the right direction

Posted by birdie on Tue, 06/09/2005 - 15:37
Hi Birdie

Yes, sorry - the site has been undergoing a major upgrade, and the document bit is currently being worked on.
Documents will be back very soon!

Steve

Steve Parks
Pilot, FlyingStartUps.com

Posted by steveparks (not verified) on Thu, 08/09/2005 - 19:33
Italics Tags

Hi Steve,

I have noticed that you should have some italic text in the text above and the Italics tags should be and rather than the square brackets.

If your sorting the website ou this may help.

Ben F

Posted by BenF on Mon, 17/10/2005 - 13:17
document

Hi Steve,

any progress on putting the one pager back on?
thanks

Posted by sophie on Wed, 11/01/2006 - 13:03
Emma A4 page

Same problem as Birdie, am I looking in the wrong place is is the document still not available ?

Posted by Steve Hughes on Wed, 01/03/2006 - 19:13
Week 6 - Missing Document

Hi Steve,

Any progress on Emma's document for Week 6? If it will be a while before it returns to the site could you email it through?

Cheers,

Dan

Posted by danradley on Sun, 26/03/2006 - 14:18
Emma's A4 Page

I'm having probelms trying to find Emma's A4 page. Is it still being worked on? Please help!

Posted by JoJo on Mon, 08/05/2006 - 12:39
Emma's A4 page

Any news on Emma's 'A4 page'?

Posted by ianhornby on Wed, 21/06/2006 - 14:05
Emma's A4 page

Hi All
The documents are temporarily on holiday while the site upgrade is completed behind the scenes. They'll be back with a tan very shortly.

cheers
Steve

Steve Parks
Pilot, FlyingStartUps.com

Posted by steveparks (not verified) on Wed, 21/06/2006 - 15:10
Hi Steve Are the documents

Hi Steve

Are the documents still on holiday???

Would love to read the one pager

Dave

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Posted by funkyoldcortina on Wed, 28/06/2006 - 19:49
Emma's A4 page

Steve,

Although I haven't been waiting as long as 'birdie' (Sept 05), I could really do with this material, please.

Do you have a date when it might be available?

Cheers,
Ian

Posted by ianhornby on Mon, 03/07/2006 - 14:17
Documents back online

Hi All

The documents facility is now fully upgraded and the documents are live again.

cheers
steve

Steve Parks
Pilot, FlyingStartUps.com

Posted by steveparks (not verified) on Mon, 03/07/2006 - 22:25
Emmas A4 page

I've just seen that although all the other documents are back on line, this one is still missing.
I'll get on to it, and let you know when it's back too

cheers
steve

Steve Parks
Pilot, FlyingStartUps.com

Posted by steveparks (not verified) on Mon, 03/07/2006 - 22:41
the mystery of emmas missing page....

Hi Steve,

Any news on Emmas A4 page yet? i know you have been busy upgrading recently nad its looking good! Would love to see this, could it be emailed instead?
cheers
D

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Posted by funkyoldcortina on Thu, 03/08/2006 - 19:42
Emmas A4 page & links

Hi Steve,

I am very keen to see Emmas A4 page - any news on this?

Also in the text in chapter 6 i clicked on the link for 'patents,copyrights and trademarks' but it didn't lead to any info on this.

hope you can help.

Andrea W

Posted by Andrea Williams on Wed, 22/11/2006 - 11:20
Emma's page

Hi Steve,
Just purchased your book yesterday, after scanning through the pages realized that I would like to read Emma's page.
Where is it?
CD

Posted by cd on Wed, 14/02/2007 - 22:56
the site seems to have slowed down

I have found the site to be really slow in loading pages the last few weeks - is it only me?

I am aware there was an upgrade - apart from that the site is still fantastic - just takes an age to upload and download.

Gary Sales
gary [dot] sales [at] scarecrowconsulting [dot] co [dot] uk
www.scarecrowconsulting.co.uk

Posted by gsales on Sun, 18/02/2007 - 13:01
Re: the site seems to have slowed down

The site is really slow for me as well, is this just a temporary issue?

Dan

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Posted by danic85 on Sun, 18/02/2007 - 23:33
Slow site and missing week 6 attachment

I am also finding the site is very slow to load - more than 20 seconds to load a page.

I haven't been able to find Emma's attachment for week 6, either.

Lynn

Posted by coxvos on Tue, 20/02/2007 - 14:46
Error Message

Just to add to my previous comment - when I land on http://www.flyingstartups.com/books/start_your_business_week_by_week/week_06_take_your_idea_to_the_world I get the following error message "A search was performed for "mediastore steve main", but nothing was found. Please use the form below to search all of our site content." displayed at the top of the page - is this relevant to the missing attachment?

Regards

Lynn

Posted by coxvos on Wed, 21/02/2007 - 08:06
Where is Emma's A4 page????

Hello, I too have just got the above error message and I agree with other posts that the site is very very slow, just took an age to log in.

Would really like to read Emma's A4 page, the reason why I have logged on was to print in and read it.

Can it not be emailed to people who request it, whilst the site is updated???

Look forward to a speedy reply.

Regards
Sparkles

Posted by Sparkles on Sun, 25/02/2007 - 22:14
Where is Emma's A4 page?

As with everyone above, I'd really love to see that page. I'm in the process of creating such a document myself and really need all the help I can get!

Posted by plumpie on Tue, 27/03/2007 - 00:14