Postcard from Irvine Bay

Starting a Business – The Driving School with the difference.

Iain Scott’s Enterprise Island Challenge takes place all over the UK. The aim is simple-to unlock the nation’s enterprise potential. The Enterprise Island Challenge is about people who have always dreamed of starting a business but not done anything about it or have started but need a bit of extra magic-which Iain supplies in full. The Irvine Bay Challenge was sponsored by www.irvinebay.co.uk and North Ayrshire Council.

Colin Surgenor isn’t exactly complaining but his unique method of teaching people to drive is proving so successful that clients are not only passing their test first time, they also need fewer lessons to reach the required level of expertise.

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What’s a ‘Foto Barista’??

Blending Coffee and Photography

Here’s a surprise (not): a place I walk past any time I am in Glasgow has finally closed down – after less than a year in business. It was called “Foto Barista.” I know – I didn’t have a clue what it was and, apparently, nobody else did, either. I  think it was a juice/snack bar/cafe that had a machine for turning digital camera images into ‘fotos.’ Read more

Great business idea # 287: the love mattress…

A great business idea.. or is it?

Looking for a mattress picture for the previous post, I came across this great business idea from last year – the Love Mattress by Mehdi Mojtabavi.

What a great idea! How many millions of us still don’t know what to do with those lower arms?

A little while later I came across this question in a forum somewhere: “How do the arms go into the slot if you’ve got a sheet on the bed, then?”.

Ah, I thought. A ‘Dalek-and-steps’ moment? Read more