Now Then Magazine Impossible Project

Earlier this year I interviewed Impossible Project Co-founder Florean Kaps for my article in Now Then Magazine about rise of analogue media and the business opportunities it presents to those with vision and commitment to a project. “We see our products creating and forming a unique niche market for passionate people, who choose our products besides everything the digital market is offering them.” Florean Kaps, Impossible Project co-founder. Its... Read More

Collaborative Consumption Thoughts On Co-spaces

Crowdsourcing and mapping. There have been some incredible open access crowdsourced mapping projects happening recently, which take data from public sources and willing participants to create useful and interactive ways to share information. From Aid organisations to artists programmers the humble map has now become an inventive and sometimes radical tool in the arsenal of community focused users. Some interesting projects that have caught my eye... Read More

Simple Philanthropy Built Into Your Business Model

A brilliant idea. 1% of Nothing. So simple its scary. Encourageing philanthropy in business from day one, 1% of Nothing connects startups and founders to causes to which they can donate 1% of their equity. If and when that company gets acquired, goes public, etc., that equity then turns into cash for that cause, instantly. The idea was hought up by Matt Galligan and Shervin Pishevar after strolling into the wrong talk at a conference, a serendipitous... Read More

Creativity In Education You’re Doing It Wrong

With over 7 million hits this 2006 TED talk from Sir Ken Robinson has struck a cord with people the world over. The topic is EDUCATION and the stake couldn’t be higher. Here Sir Ken talks about the importance of creativity in our schools, the smart people understand that its through creativity that our passions and in tern our businesses can flourish. Now I work with a lot of business people who get very nervous about the word ‘creativity’... Read More

Seth Godin Marketing In Bite Size Chunks

So next up on the list of tasty brain snacks is Seth Godin. I wouldn’t recommend trying to eat him up whole but you can find his ideas shared in the easily digestible formats of book / blog / video and audio book. A mixture of marketing genius and self help guru Seth Godin has offered frameworks that support our understanding of the post TV read/write world. A world where advertisers can no longer command our attention simply by asking for it,... Read More

Fast Company. Great Reads Over Coffee

FastCompany.com is a regular read for me in the morning with a coffee. With its simple clean format and unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, ethonomics (ethical economics), leadership and design, Fast Company dish out generous servings of forward thinking content that highlights new and emerging business practices and game changing innovations. Heres a taster (also a plug for Google+) but a great story all the same. The Dalai Lama’s... Read More

Inspiration From The Do Lectures

Inspiration from the Do Lectures. The idea is simple, DO. The Do Lectures which are freely available online are jam packed full of inspiring stories, well earned wisdom and advice. This tiny band of Do People come together every year on a small farm in Cardigan, Wales to talk about how they do what they do. These are people who make ACTION the only logical step after the IDEA. People who can’t sit on their hands, who have to move to keep motivated... Read More

Crate Space Sheffield

  Huella have launched a new tool for entrepreneurs and start ups across the city of Sheffield. Crate Space has been developed to maximize on limited resources and highlights great places to meet, work, connect and create. Based on the idea of collaborative consumption the aim is to make use of the coffee shops, cafe bars, gallery spaces and public access spaces in sheffield to do our business. Whether it be to spend a few hours catching up... Read More

Picks of MADE Festival

In our second pick from MADE Festival: Young Enterprise. This has become somewhat of a hot topic recently, projects such as the ERDF funded NET315 which Huella are currently working with are focused on embedding enterprise into education and provide supported and managed pathways into real business start up. With the increase in university fees and low job prospects for emerging graduates entrepreneurship is being promoted as a viable alternative... Read More

Picks of MADE Festival

Made The Entrepreneur Festival will be taking place in Sheffield 21st -24th September. The program is packed full of events for SME’s many which will offer insight to new business owners. With so much on we pick the first must see of the festival. D. Erdal – Beyond the Corporation: Humanity at work. “David Erdal has written a book for our times. Offering inspiration and vision in the wake of financial Armageddon, it is the happy... Read More