Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

time to ditch the fetish of becoming a 'financially sustainable' business

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In a social/networking session with fellow freelancers I was part of recently, a recurring theme amongst my fellow self employed, who are in...
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Monday, May 22, 2023

How people's forgetfulness is costing me a family home (or, maybe it's time I stopped trying to be so idealistic?)

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A few years ago, I started to track how much time I'd 'lost' from people forgetting to turn up to meetings that they'd asked...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

So how do you actually start a social enterprise?

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'Social enterprise' is a phrase that seems to be increasingly commonplace, and something that we're all being encouraged to star...
Monday, May 10, 2021

laser discs, pagers, and social accounting

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History is littered with examples of technologies and systems that were of higher standards and quality, but which were supplanted by inferi...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

the impact of a pandemic on the impact we create

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Some of you reading this will be aware that for the last 15 years, I've annually published an 'impact report' on my activities a...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

why the lifeline of SEISS may bankrupt us next year...

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At the start of the pandemic, roughly 5 million of us were self-employed. At the start of the pandemic, government made financial support av...
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Monday, June 1, 2020

to everyone who forgot to turn up to their meetings with me last year - can I have my £4,500 back, please?

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We all know the feeling of frustration of having arranged to meet with someone, only for them to not turn up when agreed; and after waiting...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

becoming deaf, dumb, and blind, during the lock-down

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Nearly all of us are currently subject to a national 'lock-down' during an unprecedented pandemic. And all of us are responding i...
Friday, January 17, 2020

having your accounts audited doesn't prove they're correct - so why do we keep thinking it does?

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Lets get one thing clear from the start here - there are a lot of accountants who will be upset with me for writing this. But at the same...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

member only content

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there seems to be an increasing trend on the internet towards content being hosted behind paywalls - the number of emails I now receive wit...
Friday, February 9, 2018

who in their right mind would be self-employed?

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I've been self-employed for over 13 years now ( although more by accident than deliberate design ), and I increasingly hear arguments b...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

if you want support for your startup, you'll likely need to ignore your ethics...

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I find myself in an unusual conundrum as an enterprise advisor who also has a pretty explicit set of values and ethics in how I approach th...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

crowdfunding grants for your project - the shape of things to come or a dystopian future?

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I find myself talking a lot about crowdfunding these days - partly because I'm starting to deliver more training and learning programme...
Monday, July 3, 2017

why it's a good thing for some of my clients I don't fully follow the example of Jesus...

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As someone who professes a Christian faith, I've always tried to reflect the values and dogma that comes with that in everything I appr...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

maybe social investment isn't that different after all..?

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I was able to make it along to this year's " Working Capital " conference that was recently staged in Sheffield - a day to im...