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Papercut. Bolefloor. Euroshop 2014 See you in Dusseldorf, Germany Visit our stand C33 in hall 10 where we proudly present our amazing Boleform wooden live edge surfaces and Bolefloor flooring. Domotex 2014 We’re returning to Domotex in 2014 (January 11-14) with a greater product range and fresh news. Look for us in hall 8, stand A02. Sleep We are excited to invite you to visit us during SLEEP (20-21 November) in Business Design Center, London. Sleep presents an edited collection of the best product launches from suppliers of furniture, bathrooms, fabrics & wallcoverings, flooring, lighting to technology for the global hotel market. We will be located on stand M28a with Protocol. Boleform live edge wooden surface shown in Milan Boleform live edge wooden surface shown in Milan Boleform is showing its wooden curved surfaces during Made Expo in Italy.

Paul Smith picked Bolefloor Noted fashion designer Paul Smith picked Bolefloor Habitare in Helsinki, Finland www.aheadhabitare.fi London calling More fair news! See you in Paris. StartUpLift - Submit Your Startup. Get Featured. Get Feedback. Is Your Business Blog Making These 10 Deadly Mistakes. Page Not Found Sorry, the page you have requested does not exist or has been moved. Successful entrepreneurs like yourself won't let this get in the way of finding articles, expert advice, and valuable resources to help build and maintain a successful business.

To find what you're looking for you can browse our navigation links on Entrepreneur.com, or you can click on one of our top resources below: Starting a Business -- Find everything you need to know to start your own business from writing a business plan, financing, marketing, finding customers, etc. Business Ideas -- Find hundreds of business ideas that you can start today.

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. #15: You’re trapped in the “college bubble.” When you’re in college, it’s tempting to see the world through the perspective of a college student. Now, you might say, “Uh, Facebook?” #14: You have no prototype. It’s been said ad nauseum lately, but it’s never been cheaper or easier to invent a web product. But, don’t just get any users. . #13: You didn’t research the competition. If you think “you have no competition,” you’re wrong.

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I would buy drugs with the fifty dollars. For the monkey. So he wouldn't mind spending his life in a monkey suit. Gambling Monkey If I had a monkey, I would teach him to count cards like Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rainman and sneak my monkey into the casino. Singing Monkey If I had a monkey, I would teach it to sing Kylie Minogue songs. Paddling Monkey If I had a monkey, I would teach it how to use a paddle. Channel Changing Monkey If I had a monkey, I would teach it how to use all the entertainment equipment. Hairdressing Monkey Surveilance Monkey 5 Fun Things to do with a Monkey. Welcome to Restaurant 109. Dealing with "tickets" from Private Parking Companies (PPCs) - FightBack Forums. When dealing with "tickets" from private parking companies (PPCs) our advice is either: 1) Ignore all communications (other than in the extremely unlikely event that you receive genuine court papers - there were only 49 cases going to court last year out of over one million tickets issued); or 2) In England and Wales only, and if the PPC is a member of the British Parking Association's Approved Operator Scheme (BPA AOS), appeal to the PPC using any of the applicable grounds below and then appeal to the independent Parking on Private Land Appeals (POPLA) service (see below for further details).

If the appeal is unsuccessful then ignore subsequent correspondence from the PPC. How Do You Know if Your Ticket is a PPC Ticket or Not? Legal Enforceability of Private Parking Tickets There is a great deal of doubt about the legal enforceability of private parking invoices that are issued to motorists. Exceptions to Advice to Ignore PPC Tickets You drive a Company car. Additional Information. Online Social Media. Launching an iPhone App on the Cheap |

At Hello Baby we have recently launched our own iPhone app, which has been extremely successful and I’d like to share how we did it. The Idea My 2 year old daughter loves my iPhone and so I got the idea to develop an app specially for toddlers. Â Toddlers aren’t terribly sophisticated when it comes to software and so got the idea for an app which would show a picture of an animal when it was shaken or the screen touched, and make the animals noise. The app is free to download but branded Hello Baby with a link to the store. Development Being cheap I found a developer via eLance to develop the application. My developer, Qiu, lives and China and certainly knew his way round iPhone development. Publicity I wrote a press release for the iPhone app which I distributed using Daryl Wilcox publishing and journalism.co.uk. Results As well as generating some great PR, the app is now contributing 80-100 unique visitors to the site a day and has had around 11,000 downloads.

Richard Branson: Five Secrets to Business Success. The celebrated entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group offers his tips for starting out. I am often asked if I have found a secret – or at least a consistent answer – to successfully building businesses over my career. So I’ve spent some time thinking about what characterizes so many of Virgin’s successful ventures and, importantly, what went wrong when we did not get it right. Reflecting across 40 years I have come up with five “secrets.” No. 1: Enjoy What You Are Doing. Because starting a business is a huge amount of hard work, requiring a great deal of time, you had better enjoy it. There was no great plan or strategy. For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

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It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money. Those were the dog days of entrepreneurship. But the truth is that I didn’t really understand just how screwed I was until years later when I finally understood every term in a term sheet and more importantly I understood how each term could actually be used to screw me. Things like “participating preferred stock” in legalese unsurprisingly never actually call out, “hey, this is the participating preferred language.” We got a 3x participating liquidation preference with interest (not participating with a 3x cap, but 3x participating. Ugh. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist. I turned them down. Term Sheet Overview: Overnight carrier service, APC overnight delivery UK.

People rely on APC Overnight’s service because we have built our reputation on quality. Our network continues to grow year-on-year thanks to exceptional service levels underpinned by state-of-the-art technology. We now collect, route and deliver more than 1 million parcels every month. The APC Overnight network was founded by a group of experienced delivery companies committed to providing excellent service in the then-fledgling UK overnight market.

The network’s subsequent expansion has been carefully managed to ensure that the founding principles remain at the company’s core. Of our 115+ depots, nearly one-third are shareholding members, and the majority have been part of the network from the start. Our depots are totally integral to our quality commitment, so service levels are continually monitored by our team of company auditors. Such is the network’s reputation within the industry that there is a waiting list of depots keen to join us. Wing of St Mawes, The Cornish Fish Monger. 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches. I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person. Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error.Those who avoided just one of those errors stood out in the crowd.These are problems with the business concept or the founder’s attitude, not specific to raising angel money.

You’re probably making a lot of these errors too. Not that I blame you! After all, these became clear to me only after seeing hundreds of applications; you don’t have the luxury of that perspective. So for the next few weeks I’m doing a series on these mistakes and what to do about them. Here’s the list: Invalid competitive advantages “Superior SEO” and “unique features” are not competitive advantages.Lacking an unfair advantage You need one killer advantage that no one on Earth can beat you on. There’s also this list, equally common but I didn’t feel the urge to write an entire blog post on each one: 31 Things I Learned From Running a Business | Dana DiTomaso.

A few months ago, I was asked to give a talk to a group of University of Toronto engineering students who were interested in entrepreneurship. This is the list of “things I learned” that I presented to them and I think you’ll find it useful too – no matter if you’re just getting started or if you’ve been doing this for a while. 1. Have an exit strategy. 2. If you have a business partner, get a good buy/sell and shareholder’s agreement in place. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.

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This year, the TGR crew of athletes and cinematographers were on a mission to capture the most jaw dropping footage to date and give the viewer an experience like no other. This pursuit led the team around the world to uncharted destinations, as well as some of their favorite stomping grounds. Follow the crew as they discover the completely unskiied big mountain mecca of Petersburg, AK, find the best snow Croatia has seen in fifty years, ski deep pillows in Italy, hit full throttle riding in British Columbia, and epic free-riding at Ripley Creek and North Cascades Heli. Don't miss Sammy Carlson and the Stevens Pass 3D experiment, the first ever 3D snow sports segment.

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