Rules For Success? – Resourceful
I will define this, as “Thou shalt steal, but in a moral way of course”
[Cycling, History, Precedence]
Rules For Success? – Research
You can never do too much research into your venture. And I don’t just mean about how the product is put together.
When we started Artemis, one of the team visited three hundred companies, who might want to buy our proposed project management system. He did a detailed survey and this meant we changed our original plan, in ways that might have been against our joint egos. But the result was that, when the product was ready we made a few sales easily and ahead of our plan.
[Bedford]
Rules For Success? – Reliability
You need this in your team and your product. Nothing spreads like rumours of unreliability.
[Brunei]
Rules For Success? – Risk
Many claim to understand risk, but only successful gamblers, understand the true meaning.
Remember too, that creating an entrepreneurial business venture is a big risk in anybody’s understanding.
[Terimon, Insight]
Rules For Success? – Regrets
Follow Edith Piaf – Never Regret Anything!
But learn from bad experiences!
Rules For Success? – Remember
Never forget anything! You never know when it might be useful.
[Health and Safety]
Rules For Success – The Last Rule
Once my next door neighbour, who was a very experienced soldier and a Colonel in the Royal Engineers said.
There is only one rule in war. Burn all rule books, but not the instruction manuals.
Bringing an idea to market is a difficult and sometimes very painful process and there is no surefire blueprint for success.
Getting Better
In some ways I am.
Yesterday, I went to my new dentist, who is in Notting Hill conveniently on the Central or Shopping line, rather than my last one who is in Felixstowe. Sorry Andrew, but it’s a bit far to go for pain!
I was asked to fill in a form and this asked what my occupation was. I said it was Getting Better, which raised a bit of a titter, even if it is true.
My new dentist is actually my son’s dentist. And he felt that I must have been very young, when I became his father. Was 23 really that young?
Anyway, the check found nothing wrong, except for a tooth I broke about thirty years ago, which has been giving me a bit of trouble since the stroke. The new dentist just X-rayed it and said that the root was fine, which is what my old dentist had recommended. It probably won’t last another thirty years, but will I?
I was just booked in for the hygienist and that was it.
So that was pretty painless!
An E-Mail to the Head of ITV
The head of ITV was on BBC Radio 5 this afternoon and Richard Bacon was soliciting questions.
I sent one in.
I never watch ITV mainly because I’m a coeliac and allergic to gluten, which means no bread, beer, pasta or fast food for me. So most of the food and drink product adverts are for products that make me ill.
I’ve also had a stroke, so I can’t drive and have no interest in betting, except on my own terms, when I have information or have made a reasoned judgement. So that get’s the other adverts onto my not-to-watch list.
So how does a channel like ITV get me to watch football on the channel, rather than listen to it on another medium which gives a quality sound or text commentary, without bombarding me with adverts for things I don’t want or have no interest in?
I might be interested in subscribing to an advert-free ITV!
It was not asked.
The Anonymous Widower 