Comments on: Rewarding Failure

By: Madelyn Cox

Madelyn Cox — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:55:22 +0000

it is easy to get Business ideas, just look for a product or service that has demand and fill it.~:

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:14:57 +0000

My company investigated getting a government grant a while back — against my principles, but the shareholders demanded we at least investigate it. The kind of money we were looking at was in the tens of thousands, the business is a reasonably established one.

Firstly, we found that there are people who will help you get grants for a cut of the cash; this works for grants up to the hundreds of thousands.

The next thing we discovered is that for the grants we were looking at, you can get about 30% of your costs paid for a specific project. The catch is that the project has to provably be something you wouldn’t work on if it wasn’t for the grant. Now, I can see the logic behind that rule — after all, they don’t want to fund something that a business would do anyway, do they? Unfortunately the gov’t don’t seem to realise that what that means is that they will only fund projects that are not commercially viable.

By: Frog

Frog — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:20:04 +0000

…someone mention cakes?

By: Piggynap

Piggynap — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:39:36 +0000

You know what Paul? We should start that business we thought of – the one that’s like Interflora but with cakes for depressed people? Let’s get some Business Link funding to invest in a website and some SEO – at least that way we’ll get to spend our taxes on something fun and not just the latest help a chav scheme.

By: David Gillies

David Gillies — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:45:15 +0000

Meanwhile Stuntman Dave and his hapless Tories are waffling on about a notional £2 billion that will supposedly be raised by not scrapping Labour’s new confiscatory 45p tax band. Even if this number were accurate (and it’s almost certainly utter cobblers) it’s the sort of cash that the one-eyed Scottish idiot and his bumbling sidekick Darling squander every 28 hours. It’s chump change. It’s a rounding error. But it will directly the penalise the very people we will need in large numbers to haul the UK out of the crapper. With a stroke of the pen the Conservatives could abolish all these development agencies and save 11 figure sums. But they’re too feart of the Grauniadistas and BBC scum, and they’ll bottle it (they could shaft both of them too, if they had a mind, by abolishing the TV license and banning public sector advertising in GMG publications, but that’s another story).

If I could summon the energy anymore, I’d weep.

By: H

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:40:42 +0000

The big number to remember when you see stories like this is £3,791.80. Median earnings in the UK is just under £25k (more if you’re in the public sector, less if you’re in the private) so the median taxpayer pays £3,791.80 in income tax each year.

That means some poor bastard is working for nearly 16 months to generate enough tax for the nomenklatura to spend £5k on projects like this. If that poor bastard is you, you might want to do something about it….

By: Real Oasis

Real Oasis — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:24:55 +0000

Good to see Bullshit Link is still up to the same exacting standards that they were 10 years ago.

Nothing wrong with a marketing blog with a bit a swearing, in fact in the disastrously run country it’s becoming just about f*****g obligatory.

By: Roger Thornhill

Roger Thornhill — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:11:50 +0000

I’m listening and what you say is not wrong.