From the category archives:

My Investments

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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My latest venture. Bridging Education to Enterprise what is the Solution?

16 March 2010

So March 2010 started off with the launch of a new venture Joblink Solutions CIC. Looking back, I guess Joblink Solutions has been nearly two years in the making, as during this time I have been fortunate enough to meet lots of organisations and individuals through my busy speaking schedule. Usually I am brought in to speak about [...]

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Businesses jumping on board the charitable and ethical bandwagon

20 October 2009

This article first appeared in ‘Start your Business’ October 2009 Carl Hopkins, star of Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire examines how social enterprise and charity involvement can add another dimension to your business. Jumping on board the charitable and ethical bandwagon as a basis to create or move your business forward may seem an easy, [...]

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From retailing to rejections

28 July 2009

Monday kicked of with my role as non-exec for Media Displays http://alturl.com/h22p . Most of the discussion was about customer feedback. In order to get our proposition right I sent out the Media Pack for Media Display to contacts in various areas of the marketing industry and received their comments about pros and cons as well [...]

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Cash Flow – more like hemorrhaging

8 June 2009

In the last 20 months I have been part of 6 business start ups and i have a word of warning. You have heard that ‘Cash is King’ weel thats not wholly true, its the whole fekkin Kingdom as far as i can see. First of all whatever cash you believe you will need to [...]

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Hello and thanks for visiting Carl’s Blog

5 June 2009

Hello, so I have been persuaded to start a blog. Timing is everything I am told so I thought it would be appropriate to start this on the second anniversary of selling my old business. I tend to plan my career in two year lumps and over the last two years I feel I have ‘re-invented’ myself… Madonna [...]

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