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		<title>Loners, vagabonds and troublemakers &#8211; Dame Anita Roddick, RIP</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/loners-vagabonds-and-troublemakers-dame-anita-roddick-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday brought the sad news of the death of Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop and active campaigner on social issues.
I’ve never really known too much about Anita Roddick other than a scant knowledge of how The Body Shop started and her media image campaigning for a better world, oh and my wife [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=69&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clear My Mail &#8211; No More Spam, Dan&#8217;s your Man</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/clear-my-mail-no-more-spam-dans-your-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to mention a networking colleague, Dan Field, who has spent much of the last few years in that most notorious of industries &#8211; spam.
But to save Dan&#8217;s reputation before it goes quickly downhill &#8211; he&#8217;s been at the good end. Trying to develop the Rolls Royce of anti-spam software &#8211; a true entrepreneurial challenge.
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		<title>The dark side</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/the-dark-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that starting a business has its risks. Anywhere between 30-50% of small businesses eventually fail, many within the first 12 months.
The reasons for failure are also well known. Poorly designed product, rosy eyed view of the market size, lack of management skills, poor financial control&#8230;.the list goes on.  
What is not so well-documented is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=66&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money v Make A Difference</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/money-v-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very easy to assume that being an entreprenuer is only about making money and lots of it. And for many entreprenuers the primary motive at least in the early days of a new business is about just that.
For other people who take the plunge to set up away from the corporate safety-net, money is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=65&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Habits</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/good-habits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good habits are hard to establish and yet so easy to break, often just through laziness or distraction.
Yet just like blog writing, (I only realised today how badly neglected this blog has been lately) having a successful business may start with a good idea, a slice of luck and a lot of hard work but maintaining [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=64&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aodhan Cullen &#8211; award winner</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/aodhan-cullen-award-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 15:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracking web site visitors is an important part of any web site owner&#8217;s business mix. So it was a pleasant surprise to see that the founder of Statcounter, the tracker I use on a number of web sites, has just been named the Young IT Person of the Year at the ICT Excellence Awards!
Aodhan Cullen started Statcounter at the tender [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=63&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be a Smoothie &#8211; Give up the Day Job</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/be-a-smoothie-give-up-the-day-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 18:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;re thinking about going it alone, telling your boss you won&#8217;t be in on Monday and then setting the world alight with your great idea.
One of the hardest decisions a would-be entreprenuer has to make is when to give up the day job. You know, the one that pays the bills.
Is it go for broke, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=57&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screw It, Let’s Do It</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/screw-it-let%e2%80%99s-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 15:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be the title of a &#8216;Lessons in Life&#8217; book by the evergreen Richard Branson but it also sums up one of the personality traits that set entreprenuers apart from everyone else.
You may have been brought up to believe patience is a virtue but when it comes to entreprenuers, impatience is the name of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=62&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m still here!</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/im-still-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 13:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve already said that for entreprenuers, &#8216;no&#8217; is like an adrenaline rush. Whether it&#8217;s friends &#38; family (although they tend to say yes and so can&#8217;t be relied on for objectivity), the bank manager, colleagues or the local expert by virtue of age and volume of grey hair, the word &#8216;no&#8217; has a stirring impact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=61&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a load of Rubbish</title>
		<link>http://meandmybigideas.wordpress.com/2007/05/05/what-a-load-of-rubbish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 17:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the political hot-potatoes in the UK at the moment is the issue of regular rubbish collections by the local councils. For years most councils have collected weekly, yet in a cost saving exercise many are now moving to a fortnightly collection service &#8211; not surprisingly local people are none too happy. Visions of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=meandmybigideas.wordpress.com&blog=444615&post=60&subd=meandmybigideas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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