businesssWell, I’m back blogging, but it has to be different to how it used to be. I’m no longer writing a postcard home, I’m in the thick of things here in Dublin. Writing, especially the more personal stuff, can, paradoxically, be anti-social. It isolates you from those around you, even as you are connecting with [...]
As we all know, money makes money. Those of us who are skilled in life in ways other than money-making, as a rule, have riches enough in other ways to make life satisfying, or at least bearable; but lack of money is anxiety-provoking, stressful, debilitating and can be humiliating.
In working on my business plan, [...]
One of my favourite books* documents a period in the 1940s and 50s when the communist dream was becoming a nightmare, and progressive thinkers all over the world were becoming disillusioned. One of the symptoms of this malaise was that it became impossible to tell the difference in communist literature between three groups: those [...]
I learned a lot at yesterday’s Web2Ireland conference. It’s still difficult for me socially at these events because I hate acting the mysterious and not talking about what I’m up to. Going up to potential investors and blagging with nothing to say? Urgh. Coy just doesn’t cut it. It’s a business environment and everyone wants [...]
Good news! I got all the grant I asked for from the Enterprise Board for my feasibility study for the business. It’s not so much about the money, (they’ll give me 50% of what I spend) it’s the fact that they want to give it to me, if that makes sense. It’s all very well [...]
Unplanned delays are tricky for a control freak like me, I can either sink or swim. The decision about whether or not I’m going to get a feasibility study grant for my business was delayed by ten days – they’re now deciding on Monday. I know I shouldn’t place too much store on what they [...]
Update: To those looking for astrology bookmarks, I apologise – spammers took the site over making it impossible for me to maintain. I did not have the resources to cope, and I couldn’t afford to get a professional in to create a spam-proof site. It was popular though. Please check out Elsa’s cool site which, [...]
“What exactly is blogging?” asked the man from the Enterprise Board, when I met him yesterday to talk about my grant application for the feasibility study. My heart sank, but I don’t think I did too badly. Then, I had to explain RSS. OK folks: in 20 words or less, can anyone come up with [...]
I’m knackered. I spent the past few days writing up a thirteen-page application for a Feasibility Study Grant for the business, and it took a lot out of me, and I’ve Bootboy to write this week as well.
There’s something icky for me about commitment, I realise – especially financial commitment. It has never been [...]
“I’d hoped for a bit of a head start. Too late! I’m going to have to get my finger out and do something about this which means moving things a bit faster. I don’t have to implement the full scale plan, but I do need to do something.”
So says mj, and I feel for [...]
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