It’s My Business Info

In my last post we were just about to move office, well that has happened and I’m now sitting here with a splendid view of the river Foss and York Minster.

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It seems to me that whenever things go wrong it’s always because I’m trying to do something I’m simply not equipped or trained to do.

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My name’s Dan Savage and I started my company, Artstop Studios, in September 2005, designing and creating architectural glass for public spaces.

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We were interviewed yesterday by mergermarket.com. I took Paul (our new team member) along to see how I perform in interviews (as a training exercise), but the interviewer decided to interview Paul too. As a writer and journalist he needs no media training, and he coped admirably!

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Last week’s award was great to receive, and I must admit we have spent our Venturefest winnings already. But you’ll be glad to hear that the money has been invested wisely (partly going towards a new and long-overdue laptop for the business).

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Analysis of the forces that affect the competitive environment in an industry in order to understand the attractiveness of a particular market. Just one of the models for strategic analysis of a business. (more…)

What a great week to start my blog! We’ve just been exhibitors at Venturefest 2007, where we were very lucky to have been given a free stand through York St John University.

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A particular pricing strategy an organisation applies by charging a high price when initially entering a market to benefit from premium prices some customers are willing to pay for a new product.
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Considering I wasn’t due to attend Venturefest 2007, it was pretty good day in the end! I won £1,000 and walked away with the Venturefest Innovation Central Award for the ‘most progressed innovation’ since last year. So my PR machine will be grinding that out, which is brilliant!

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Of course you are! As every entrepreneur will know, you have good days and bad days in business.

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