http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywOr4OYqXOs&p=9ECA8AEB409B3E4F&playnext=1&index=19
The link above is a good link about raising finance and how a company can increase the number of shares it issues.
This tutorial is brilliant – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_btal7Fr3Gw - all about balance sheets, he also has a whole series.
Interesting link about Dragons Den and a woman who had some issues with James Caan – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303097/Dragons-Den-winner-reveals-80k-promise-fact-loan–26-500-emerged.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Another brilliant interview from Gates: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid87735931001?bclid=87675639001&bctid=541391120001
I found this good site for explaining finance terms: http://www.investopedia.com/video/
Key subjects are: Return on Investment, P/B Ratio, P/E Ratio, Return Net Worth and more.
My new site on forex trade: www.tradingforextowin.com
Here is more about Forex: http://www.forexfloor.com/
I am rarely impressed with a new site, but the exception is www.spezify.com. The site is only a year old and yet it is very quick and provides visual search. I entered my own name and got various relevant pages.
Last night I had my meeting with a director of a Care Home company and he explained how to start a care home business. It all looks good. I am more convinced now than ever that this is the way to go. He also went into the emerging business area of allowing client registrations via websites and then automatic real time matching with candidates which is then integrated into analysis for demographics. This immediately reminded me of my own Business Management System still being developed and how it can be extended very easily to areas such as this.
Still thanks to Capitalism we have to struggle whilst the capitalists who control the capital business needs to prosper do not invest and we all struggle on. Thanks again to Capitalism for just being there!
Here is an interview I saw months ago, and just link to it now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudfBIxw6do at 16:00 – 16:26 Richard Branson, a famous business person, explains how he did not know the difference between Gross and Nett profit.
Is Branson a capitalist? You can judge that but his admission about his ignorance about Gross and Nett makes him a front runner.
Capitalism is a dirty word at present, and greed - far from being good (as Gordon Gekko famously called it in the film Wall Street) - is perceived as bad. But are we in danger of throwing out the baby with the bathwater? A timely book on business by RICHARD BRANSON suggests that we are…
I have found trade shows can be largely a waste of time, but occasionally you can meet someone who turns into a valued contact.
There are a lot of interesting ones appearing at Olympia – http://www.eco.co.uk/events/listing/10 - and I saw a landlord one in September. I decided to extract part of the general Bizmed program into a landlord tenancy program which is a simpler program in a simple bid to get some income to support development as I live under Capitalism and this seems to be the only way to finance anything.
I was reviewing Theo the Dragon investor after watching a Dragon Den show last night, and saw a website at http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/news/fundraising-deals/1261973/basekit-raises-and3626-million-for-launch.thtml which explained how a software company got 2.6 million in investment. It reminded me of the skimlinks investment which also received NESTA funds.
I had an email back from Theo’s team saying he would consider my company as a subject of investment.
So I felt the website was worth a mention as it appears to have a lot of useful information for startups.
I also saw Huddle raised 15 million – a lot of money by any standard.
http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/news/fundraising-deals/1256428/huddle-in-series-b-round.thtml
Well something I learned about years ago was that anyone in business needs to be flexible enough to try different things. The retail market now is the weakest I have ever seen and with the VAT rise and I do not see many rosey times ahead. In that theme, I have been thinking about new business and one area I have heard great things about is the Care Home Sector. I know several people in that sector.
So today, I started with the groundwork on setting up a Care Home business. All I found out so far is that Social Workers are all registered. I am listing some links here, in case anyone has an interest:
http://www.cqc.org.uk/ is the Care Quality Commission, and they seemed the most interested in any new business ventures. The other was the GSCC which really only handles enforcement. The phone intro is all about reporting people: http://www.gscc.org.uk/Home/
I am still developing my Business Management System and I am hopeful of a demo being available this week, where did I hear that already?
I was surprised to see Google sublinks were returned for the www.merrows.co.uk website after they got removed. I think that was due to the sitemap changing.
I am now chugging away with VS2010 and the systems seem good.
I saw the contract rates of 500 pounds a day and as strong as ever at www.jobserve.com and I am partly thinking of returning to the role I did for 5 years before Merrows which pays in general 10-20K a month. Of course at 60% tax you tend to finance the Government and not yourself. Who loves taxes?
Well I got back from the sermon today, so I thought I would mention it:
http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/jcm33.html
It was about demons fleeing an afflicted soul and entering a herd of pigs. I could not help thinking about the pigs and why no one was thinking about their fate as they all drowned!
I am now back slogging away trying to get something ready for sale in the new Business Management System I am writing.