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The last business book review of 2020 will take you on Ray Kroc’s roller-coaster ride of a lifetime… His book ‘Grinding it out’ (written by Kroc) is not just about the making of McDonald’s, it’s also about the longest period of his life before the McDonald’s opportunity came along. I can imagine not a lot

During the UK’s darkest days… Churchill returned to his old school Harrow to give an inspiring commencement speech. Before the speech, the headmaster looked worrying across at Churchill, who had fallen asleep, and stayed that way for most of the ceremony. But when introduced, Churchill made his way to podium, looked out over the students,

According to Bloomberg the top 5 leaders in driverless cars are… Waymo Cruise Argo AI Aurora Aptiv Waymo. Is the self-driving car division of Alphabet Inc, which is the holding company for Google and many other former Google subsidiaries. Why Google split like this, we’ll explain another day. It’s thought Waymo remains ahead of the competition by

Good day… This week’s business book review follows on from ‘Good to Great’ (reviewed in November), which details how good companies became great, and sustained it for years. ‘How the Mighty Fall’ also written by Jim Collins, investigates why these once mighty companies (some even in the last book) suddenly start to crumble and even

Do you remember Zenith personal computers from the 80’s? They grew massive and became the 2nd biggest maker of IBM compatible personal computers, and could have become the DELL, HP, or Lenovo of today. But what stopped them? Well, they’ve got an interesting back story, which many don’t realise. In the 40’s eccentric mastermind Commander

Sometimes you’ve just got to know when to quit doing the same old things… Back in the 70’s Intel had 80% market share of the DRAM (dynamic random accessory memory) industry, and it accounted for 90% of their revenues. But due to strong competition from the East (who would copy and undercut Intel’s new releases

Techstars is a worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed… It was co-founded in 2006 by David Cohen & Brad Field, both of which are experienced technology entrepreneurs and serial investors. With the aim to provide first-time entrepreneurs with the tools, insights, and experiences of successful founders and mentors to help them do more faster. Today’s

2 brothers (born in Russia & brought up in New York) wanted to start a cloud hosting business… But to grow at scale, they needed investment, so they applied to join TechStars programme, which help tech ideas succeed. TechStars co-founder (David Cohen) originally laughed at their idea saying, “Rackspace & Amazon already dominate this market,

The realm of business may seem one that narrowly escapes the reach of creative writing… Oftentimes one’s perception of writing for business is cordoned off by a succinct, “Dear XXXXX, I am writing to inform you of XXXXX.” Whilst this traditional, formal, and economical style of writing certainly has a place in the concise, fast-paced