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Winning New Business - with dragon Deborah Meadon

Posted Mon, 17/05/2010 - 17:05 by steveparks

This Wednesday afternoon I'll be hosting a web event for NatWest and Smarta.

It's aimed at entrepreneurs in growing businesses who want to learn from people who have 'been there and done it'. In particular it's going to focus on how to win new business.

The panel includes Deborah Meadon of Dragons' Den fame and Marcus Peffer from top ad agency M&C Saatchi.

The event is open to anyone, and you can join in from your office or home via the web. read more »

2010 - A Work Odyssey

Posted Mon, 17/05/2010 - 16:59 by steveparks

The first few months of this year have been packed with work for me (as you can tell by the scarcity of blogging or tweeting!). Here are some highlights of what I've been up to:

Writing

I was one of the writing team who put together four booklets and a microsite for HSBC Bank. The booklets were included in the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph over the course of a month. The microsite is at: http://www.hsbc.com/100thoughts. read more »

Three Stories from Steve Jobs

Posted Thu, 07/01/2010 - 11:55 by steveparks

Steve Jobs is held up as an icon of entrepreneurship, and in this video  read more »

Solving the 3 problems of online business models

Posted Wed, 06/01/2010 - 12:40 by steveparks
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Monetising Start-Ups - Optimise your sales funnel

Posted Mon, 04/01/2010 - 18:03 by steveparks

After read more »

Early = Wrong

Posted Mon, 24/08/2009 - 11:14 by steveparks

There's been a string of Web 2.0 companies biting the dust in the recession, and as with all business failure it's well worth examining what went wrong to learn some valuable lessons.

In the case of Lookery, which has just announced it's closure, the founder himself has taken that step back to a analyse what happened, and has written up his thoughts in a very open and honest blog post: http://blog.lookery.com/2009/08/21/couldery-shouldery/ read more »

YCombinator StartUp Challenge: The Future of Journalism

Posted Mon, 17/08/2009 - 12:01 by steveparks

How can the media can best evolve for the web? What is going to replace newspapers online? How can content sites make money?

The answers to these questions are highly valued at the moment. Rupert Murdoch believes he can just put content behind a subscription pay wall and people will be happy to pay for it rather than get it free from other sites.

Some sites (like TechCrunch that the link below goes to) make money from advertising and events while giving the content away free.

But many sites make no money at all. read more »

The Social Media Revolution

Posted Mon, 17/08/2009 - 11:49 by steveparks

Here's some food for thought about the power and growth of social media. read more »

Liveblog: Entrepreneur Country Conference

Posted Thu, 25/06/2009 - 16:00 by steveparks

I liveblogged the Entrepreneur Country event yesterday.

The original, as-it-happened liveblog can be found here: http://www.steveparks.co.uk/liveblogging_entrepreneur_country_event

Here's the roundup of the day... read more »