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What does “sustainable income” mean for authors?
This is a question that has been puzzling me for some time (and I understand that I am not the only one). I started to look into it but couldn’t find an exact answer – so I put the following together for the purposes of discussion. Link here for a printable PDF. Feedback welcome, in any of […]
Posted in: Publishing
Superdry – a non-technological success story
January 3, 2013
Note: I drafted this last year, having had the good fortune to talk to Richy at the Cheltenham Design Festival. For one reason or another it was never published. And while the share price has had its ups and downs, the Superdry brand still holds its own! Richy Baldwin stands next to a coat rail […]
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RIP Claus Egge
July 29, 2012
Claus Egge was one of the first analysts I met, and one of the first I admired. Calm, analytical (it helps), Claus never needed to be highly vocal to impress. When he spoke, he spoke with quiet authority. While I never knew him outside the analyst circuit, I often had the pleasure of his company […]
Posted in: Technology
Targeted ad serving may not breach privacy laws, but it’s bloody annoying
December 8, 2011
We looked for a hotel in Paris. A lovely thing to do – next April, we’ll be going there. How fantastic. we didn’t book anything, but certainly got some good ideas. And then, for the following week, every web page we went to included adverts about hotels. Short breaks. Booking. Bargains. I was doing some […]
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So what is it you do, precisely?
December 7, 2011
Warning. This post is somewhat self-indulgent. If you’re not interested, please skip straight to the bio. It took me a year to update my biography. Stepping down as an industry analyst was a tough decision for me: I enjoyed the work, I loved the company and people I was working with yet I still felt […]
UK SME Agenda: Too big to succeed?
November 15, 2011
Almost a year ago, faced with withdrawal of support from banks and general belt-tightening across sectors, the UK government announced a series of measures to help small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). Most welcome was Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude’s announcement that government would work towards doing 25 percent of its business with the SME sector. But just how […]
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Solid state storage now running at a pound a Gig
November 8, 2011
Just marking the moment really – a cursory browse around UK computer components sites suggests that a 500Gb hard drive is just about available for the same number of pounds. eBuyer.com, for example, is stocking a Crucial 500Gb drive for £550 quid. At the smaller end of the scale, a generic 16Gb Class 10 Micro-SD card […]
Posted in: Technology
January 16, 2013
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