technology

Secret ambitions, early exits and bootstrapped lessons

* This is the first post by James Devonport Wood, MD of accredited Facebook developer PageHub There is a significant gap in Europe for early stage funding for startups seeking less than £500,000. While new funds and incubators are starting to emerge, the lack of finance available is leaving European tech businesses at a disadvantage [...]

Social CRM: Stop thinking about ownership and start thinking about culture change

Who owns Social CRM? This debate continues to divide opinion, but I believe it is the wrong question. Ownership is not the issue, and only echoes the ‘who owns social media’ tedium, which I have ranted about for longer than I care to remember. The social media ownership debate has been perpetuated by a range [...]

It’s a Leap Year and only one prediction for 2012… look back, not forwards

It’s the little things in life that grant knowledge and the information this week from my eight-year-old son that Leap Years occur every year the Olympics take place has somehow made made my life more composed. So, 2012 is an Olympic year and a Leap Year, and according to the Mayans it’s the year that [...]