From the category archives:

buying a business

First entries in my diary after buying JDA 10 years ago this month

15 September 2010

The reason I started to write these notes were Judith said she wished she had recorded the early days of JDA I have a hopeless memory and this will be a great way to look back come success or the alternative! I have decided to tell no one of this ‘journal’ so it will be [...]

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Year one of owning JDA – My first ‘secret’ diary

5 June 2009

I want your feedback. I have a secret… or two. Without ever telling anyone, I kept a ‘secret’ journal of my first year as a ‘business owner’ . When I was 35 I bought JDA. Then a 48 person £9,500,000 turnover business in bradford, within 5 years I had taken it to 75 people, moved [...]

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