Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  Sep 1, 2008	Education shaped & Bristol Fashion
Disclosure: This was originally published on TechCrunch UK , I’ve made some edits at the end in response to comment on TC, Underscore , Twitter etc. Uploaded on March 29, 2007 by pictopedia Its not all stovepipe hats and clay dogs in Bristol, these days its more location...... [view]

Posted By:  theleaderworld Posted On:  Jul 6, 2008	What leadership means to you...
The Leader World (www.theleaderworld.com) is currently conducting a research on what leadership means to young people under 40. I would be grateful if you could take 2min to fill out this very short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nMWTf5YeUZGQMbH0nRV5KQ_3d_3d Many thanks in...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  Jun 19, 2008	What’s the BizIdea?
[Disclosure: I attended in my role as Flagship Initiative Adviser for Knowledge West, we have the Knowledge West Enterprise Awards, which brings together competitors from the 6 University Business Plan competitions in the area. However, I'm not on that judging panel, nor this one, and my views...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  Jun 4, 2008	OpenCoffee Club Bristol
Uploaded by Lutz-R. Frank on 02 Aug 07. The reason this post is a bit late is I spent most of yesterday evening setting up a Facebook group for OpenCoffee Club Bristol (and we already have 5 members, cheers), posting the next four dates ( 17 June , 1 & 15 & 29 July and...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  May 28, 2008	Portfolio business planning
Uploaded by frozenchipmunk on 20 Aug 07. Not about a portfolio of businesses, but rather for a business to have a portfolio of income streams from a single (or small number) of core products / services. Several recent conversations in Bristol, Leeds, London and elsewhere have shown...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  May 16, 2008	Celebrating failure
Disclosure: As well as Managing Partner of jbsh LLP (the business behind this blog) I also work part time for the University of the West of England on the Knowledge West project managing their QuickMark ® service.] Today was an important day for jbsh, I gave our first unsuccessful...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  May 6, 2008	Open Coffee good in Bristol
Uploaded by suresh_gundappa on 17 Aug 06, 9.27AM BST. The nominal theme for this morning’s Open Coffee was ‘articulating your message’, or the art of the elevator pitch. Without wishing to do anyone (including myself) out of a job - go to this blog post and read...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  May 2, 2008	Open Coffee launch details
I mentioned earlier on Twitter that I was hoping to confirm some additional support for Open Coffee, well Starbucks are getting behind us and offering free coffee, free muffins and free WiFi to attendees of Open Coffee at 9am Tuesday, 6 May . We’ll be downstairs at the...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  Mar 28, 2008	Geeks & investors, are they oil & water? Lets mix it up a bit…
There’re a ton of networking events taking place in Bristol, but there appears to be a gap around the business of doing business in the digital media / interactive technologies / software development type area. Simon Bunker launched Open Coffee Bristol almost a year ago but it never...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  Mar 15, 2008	Lessons in Entrepreneurial Leadership
Last night was spent up in Bristol University ’s Chemistry lecture room courtesy of Bristol Enterprise Network (this evening chaired by Prof Stephen Hagan, Director of the University of the West of England ’s Research, Business and Innovation group). The delegate list was...... [view]

Posted By:  jwgbradford Posted On:  Feb 2, 2008	Hackathon Bristol
At Open Coffee the other night, after bemoning the lack of access to pre-seed capital and the unlikelyness of the banks to lend Simon and me £1m to run our own venture fund, the topic turned to the usual mix of mobile, hacking and start-ups. Somewhere between the beers, Dan proposed a...... [view]

Submitted By:   rstrivedi Event Date:  Sep 15, 2008 Event Location:  George Washington University [view]

2008 Global Youth Enterprise Conference