Entrepreneur Issues | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:49:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 There’s one thing we got to get, Heyes…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/07/theres-one-thing-we-got-to-get-heyes/ Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:12:05 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1533 …and that’s out of this business!” One of the TV highlights of the week for me in the early 1970s was the TV series ‘Alias Smith and Jones‘, following the adventures of two outlaws on probation, Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, as they attempted to stay ahead of the law and out of trouble. At […]

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]]> ‘Does Microsoft move the cheese too often?’ https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/06/does-microsoft-move-the-cheese-too-often/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:49:33 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1468 Every now and again I bother to read something about my profession.  I know that this sounds rather bad – continuous professional development and all that stuff – but usually I’m too busy doing stuff to read about what others are doing or what I might be doing in 2 years time.  And so I […]

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]]> And Facebook carries on downwards…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/05/and-facebook-carries-on-downwards/ Wed, 23 May 2012 07:25:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1499 In my last post I questioned the value given to Facebook in their IPO.  It became clear at the close of first day trading that things hadn’t gone according to plan; the usual ‘Day One Spike’ associated with high profile technology IPOs just didn’t happen, and I have a feeling that the only reason that […]

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]]> The obligatory Facebook IPO post….or…Hey! Zuckerberg! You’re my bitch! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/05/the-obligatory-facebook-ipo-post-or-hey-zuckerberg-youre-my-bitch/ Sat, 19 May 2012 08:33:35 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1487 Well, despite the state of the world economy, Facebook finally managed it’s IPO today and ended the day at roughly the same level as it launched at, having had a high point of about $42 and a start point of $38.  Now, when I were a lad we did IPOs differently – take the VA […]

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]]> Google Drive…to get your stuff. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/04/google-drive-to-get-your-stuff/ Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:14:10 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1456 I’ve always had the attitude that any company that has to remind it’s staff to ‘Do No Evil’ is either employing the wrong sort of people or is trying hard to hide the fact that they might not be paragons of virtue. This week my increasingly hardcore anti-Google attitude was turned up another notch by […]

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]]> I write software…to solve problems https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/08/i-write-software-to-solve-problems/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:29:48 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1225 Well, it’s a while since I wrote a blog post so why not kick off with a slight bit of professional heresy.  I write software for a living; have done for over 30 years, starting with SCMP microprocessors in my teens (yes, I was THAT sort of teenager…) and working through everything in between until […]

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]]> Chasing Cars https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/07/chasing-cars/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:01:46 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1185 ‘Chasing Cars’ is the name of a song by the band ‘Snow Patrol’.  I quite like it – I’m a sucker for sad songs and this is a fine example of the genre.  However, it has a little bit of ‘back story’.  According to Wikipedia: “The phrase “Chasing Cars” came from [singer Gary ] Lightbody’s father, […]

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]]> The world’s messy – get used to it https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/06/the-worlds-messy-get-used-to-it/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:22:41 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1189 One of the great things about Twitter is that it brings articles to my attention that I wouldn’t otherwise have read. This blog post originated in one of those articles. It’s here – in it, the writer notes that managers and creatives tend to work on different chunks of time for getting things done – […]

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]]> Tweeting in meetings…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/06/tweeting-in-meetings/ Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:04:41 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1140 I came across this rather interesting article from the personal blog of a Pastor in the US recently in which he suggests that Tweeting in Church might be a good idea.  Now, I have to admit that I was something of a late adopter with Twitter (and Facebook…and for that matter with SMS texting….yeah, OK, I’m a […]

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]]> Arrogance 2.0 https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/arrogance-2-0/ Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:27:07 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1026 Maybe I’m just old, or maybe I just don’t get some aspects of modern business – or are some people online purporting to be business experts just arrogant and opinionated folks with insufficient experience and a habit of stating the bleedin’ obvious as if they’d just discovered a Unified Field Theory? And what triggered this off?  As frequently […]

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