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Get your idea out there

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Darren
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Startup numbers guy, and one of my favourite writers – Mark McLeod – makes a very strong case for getting your new business idea out there as soon and as much as possible – “If you love your idea, set it free”.
Mark is right. In an age where new businesses develop almost as fast as [...]

Access denied

Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Darren
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Apparently Neo didn’t make it through to the Enablis “pre-finalists” stage. I say “apparently” because… well, I’ll get to that.
The sizzle
So yeah, that sucks. But it’s fine, there’s a reason for it. After giving it a bit of thought I’ll take the positive and move on.
Here are a couple of the things I’ll take out [...]

The end of the beginning

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Darren
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Looking through my calendar I just realised that judging is underway [today and tomorrow] to pick the top 100 “pre-finalists” for the Enablis competition. They’ve said they’ll notify those who make it, so I’ll have to wait and see what happens. But either way I’m not worried, like writing about the adventure here on OutThink, [...]

Update on the Enablis competition

Posted on October 6th, 2009 by Darren
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Life flies by so fast that it’s important to stop every now and then to smell the roses. No that’s not me in the picture, although we do have some roses growing in the garden outside.
Competition closing… take two
The Enablis competition closed [for the second time] a couple of weeks ago [Friday 18th of [...]