The Company Connecting Startup experience Part Nine A few weeks ago I wrote about my experiences with Interface Online and the help I received in finding a University I could collaborate with to get Company Connecting off the ground. I had already started to develop the methodology for collecting and categorising the information on IT ... Read more

Company Connecting Startup Experience: Part Eight I recently read an article by Tom Popomaronis, ‘Science says you shouldn’t work more than this number of hours a week’ . This started me thinking about the hours I work and have worked in the past. The guts of the article is that working too long can affect ... Read more

Last week I wrote about the help I received attending the Highlands & Island Enterprise Pathfinder Accelerator. It helped me to shape the Company Connecting business by making me spend time on the direction of the business instead of just ‘doing’. The discipline of carrying out our ‘homework’, defining the company strategic was a painful ... Read more

In my last article I wrote about the pains I went through trying to decide what to do, and the relief that came with finally taking the decision to make Company Connecting my priority above all other business and work options. So now all I had to do was figure out how to make Company ... Read more

Be scared. Be brave. Make a decision. Get on with it. In my last article I wrote about starting with one idea, and ending up moving in a very different direction. I was already working via Vetta Business Services and had begun to pull together my prospective client list along with the product and service ... Read more

In my previous article I wrote about having an idea and considering how that idea can become a business.  I had identified my customer group as IT companies and anyone interested in IT. I was all set to find the IT companies and then discovered that this was not a straightforward or easy task. I ... Read more

The Startup experience with Company Connecting. Part Two In my previous article I wrote about my heritage and how the idea for Company Connecting began to germinate. This week I am going to continue on the theme of ideas and how you convert an idea into a business. The first business I set up in 2014 had ... Read more

When I started Company Connecting, I never thought of it as a ‘Start up’. I had several ideas for a business and key for me was to be independent and live up to my new motto ‘Life is too short to work for someone else’.I come from a long line of farmers and engineers who ... Read more

In previous articles I considered the possibility of larger companies engaging with smaller SMEs to address the current shortage in IT skills rather than direct recruitment.  I also covered the difficulties a larger company may experience and the need to consider the management of projects involving multiple companies; something which is common place in large ... Read more

Main Focus of the BusinessAccelerate Corporation Limited is a business and technology consultancy specialising in supporting both business start ups and business expansions. What do you do now?I operate as a business / management consultant working in a range of industries, sectors and functional areas.  One of my recent assignments was in Madrid where I was ... Read more