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The n Bells: January 2012
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012. Standing on the shoulders of failure. 8220;so what policy ideas have you got, what’s your big idea? I started working on the Entrepreneurship Charter for Cambridge (a joint project between me and my local MP) in mid 2010. I had just been introducing myself to the people in the shared MPs offices and was asked this question. I think it’s a very dangerous question to have an answer to, and here’s why. What was my big idea for solving this problem? Anyone will argue for a helping h...
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The n Bells: Flags for Orphans - policies that are so good, they don't need justification
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Sunday, 25 March 2012. Flags for Orphans - policies that are so good, they don't need justification. My policy encourages innovation and entrepreneurship. It creates jobs, and growth. It improves the quality of people’s lives and will reward hard working people. This is what I call a flags for orphans policy (FFO): an outcome or policy label, with positive connotations, that can be applied without having to be justified . In the Simpsons (Mr. Spritz goes to Washington) ,. Flags for Orphans bill. I will d...
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The n Bells: The vital n%: Why NESTA's vital 6% can mislead as well as inform
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Thursday, 12 April 2012. The vital n%: Why NESTA's vital 6% can mislead as well as inform. The vital n%: Why NESTAs 6% can mislead as well as inform. NESTA’s “The vital 6 per cent” shows that 6% of companies (in terms of growth rates) generate half of all new jobs created by business and that the majority of these companies were SMEs. This is not an easy figure to interpret. In the UK, the top 1% of new firms generates 46% of all new firm jobs in the UK (WEF). Again, wow. That’s because this figure...
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The n Bells: February 2012
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Sunday, 19 February 2012. Save the Euro – Get Connected: Why Countries with the Internet have Lower Cost of Borrowing. This snapshot of a handful of countries post-economic crisis shows one thing very clearly: a country’s ability to weather the economic crisis is related strongly to its level of modernisation or e-Intensity. There are two other groups: those with high e-Intensity and low government bond rates such as Germany, Denmark and the UK, and a middle group (Belgium, Austria and France) with lower...
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The n Bells: Apple - Think Twice.
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Friday, 30 November 2012. Apple - Think Twice. I'm writing this because I think Apple may have changed. I have been a loyal customer for 11 years, but will think twice before every buying from them again. I hope anyone reading this will do the same. As an illustration of the ghosting on my $4k machine, here’s a pic of my screen trying to show a plain grey screen after a photo of Phil Schiller (left), Tim Cook (centre), and Jonathan Ive (right) had been on it for 3 mins. This is a real problem with my lap...
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The n Bells: April 2012
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Thursday, 12 April 2012. The vital n%: Why NESTA's vital 6% can mislead as well as inform. The vital n%: Why NESTAs 6% can mislead as well as inform. NESTA’s “The vital 6 per cent” shows that 6% of companies (in terms of growth rates) generate half of all new jobs created by business and that the majority of these companies were SMEs. This is not an easy figure to interpret. In the UK, the top 1% of new firms generates 46% of all new firm jobs in the UK (WEF). Again, wow. That’s because this figure...
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The n Bells: March 2012
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Sunday, 25 March 2012. Flags for Orphans - policies that are so good, they don't need justification. My policy encourages innovation and entrepreneurship. It creates jobs, and growth. It improves the quality of people’s lives and will reward hard working people. This is what I call a flags for orphans policy (FFO): an outcome or policy label, with positive connotations, that can be applied without having to be justified . In the Simpsons (Mr. Spritz goes to Washington) ,. Flags for Orphans bill. I will d...
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The n Bells: November 2012
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Friday, 30 November 2012. Apple - Think Twice. I'm writing this because I think Apple may have changed. I have been a loyal customer for 11 years, but will think twice before every buying from them again. I hope anyone reading this will do the same. As an illustration of the ghosting on my $4k machine, here’s a pic of my screen trying to show a plain grey screen after a photo of Phil Schiller (left), Tim Cook (centre), and Jonathan Ive (right) had been on it for 3 mins. This is a real problem with my lap...
