Connect or Protect? How can we open up our ideas and keep them safe at the same time?

In this episode:

My new company is registered!
Creative Commons non-disclosure agreements?
Protecting the idea in early start-up mode
Connecting with people around you is important to influence your early ideas on your project

Common Purpose - The Entrepreneur’s Game

Yesterday I was playing a ‘dragon in the den’ at a Common Purpose event as part of their Navigator Programme on leadership development.
The format wasn’t too far removed from the BBC ‘Dragon’s Den’ pitch-to-the-investors model, but with a few differences.
Also on the panel with me (all men - which I pointed out) were:

Damien Glover, Relationship [...]

Let’s take the ideas in the Big City Plan and run with them

In the first of my video blog posts I was pretty amazed by one of the comments in particular that came back and it looks like we’ve spawned a project if I can find some people to collaborate with to make it happen (open invite).
So how about we apply some of that ‘Local Ideas Bank’ [...]

What is accelerated serendipity for?

What is accelerated serendipity for? from aeioux on Vimeo.
In an attempt to break some of the backblog and to get me publishing more regularly, how about video for the format, and to start with how do you think we can make serendipity have real outcomes rather than just ‘nice ideas’ being generated?

WordcampUK comes to Birmingham

(Image with thanks from Antoine Mallet for the freeware map image)
Great news for Birmingham’s ever-growing blogging and social media scene!
Fans of the Wordpress blogging platform have been springing up left right and centre of late, and the icing on the cake is that a first-of-its-kind-in-the-UK event is now being planned for this summer to connect [...]