I was thinking over the weekend, it's a long game and how did I get to where I am now? ... or as the Irish man replied when asked for directions, " "Now if I were you, I wouldn't have started from here." This is one way to tell the story ... Let's start at age 16 in NI playing badminton for Ulster and Ireland, which is all I cared about at the time.
Young Turks
The number of young executives I see looking for answers to basic business questions (on any online industry forum) that got answered a long time ago concerns me. It's not their fault, who have they got to learn from if the older mentor figures keep disappearing? There has to be a process of regeneration, a cycle where experienced professionals, grounded in business skills, impart their knowledge to the next set of executives.
So if you are having to build a technology start-up outside London … you are a failure?
"So you can fail in London too, and it is why most British start-ups fail in Silicon Valley as well because the competition there is even more fierce and the money game more aggressive"
SANITY CLAUSE 