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A favourite hobby of all GTD-ers is to talk about their own customised form of GTD. Just look at here or here for instance. If you use GTD, please share your tips below (or leave your name in the comments – it would awesome to have a GTD Geek night).

My Implementation

To give you a favour of what to expect, here’s some of the parts to my implementation of GTD (the full system would take too long to explain!) (more…)

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Getting to plan B, breaking through to a better business model is the authors’ second book. John Mullins first authored The New Business Road Test, which has become a well used textbook in many university entrepreneurship courses. Randy Komisar is the author of The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living, a bestseller in every entrepreneurs’ reading list.

This new book is an attempt at educating entrepreneurs on how to change an initial business idea into a proper business with a sustainable business model. They designed a framework for entrepreneurs to use based on “four key building blocks”: analogs, antilogs, leaps of faith, and dashboards. (more…)

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After a wild week of business and tech events, all we can say is ‘hold on, there’s more!’ Hope you got your rest this summer because the events scene is in full swing. Unfortunate time conflicts mean you’ll need to make some tough decisions, but here are your exciting options:

Tech Meetup: Wednesday, 9th Sept, 7pm at Appleton Tower

A monthly must for anyone in the tech startup scene – developers, programmers, entrepreneurs, students, community members, and curious bystanders. Most importantly, there will be free pizza and beer =). Join in on the 8th floor of Appleton Tower, Chrichton Street. No RSVP or tickets needed.

Edinburgh Twestival: Thursday, 10th Sept, 7pm at Electric Circus (more…)

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We announced this event on our facebook group, but apologise for not announcing it on the blog earlier… We’re having StartupCafe drinks this Friday (4th Sept), 7pm, at Vodka Revolution on the corner between Chambers St and George IV Bridge.

If you didn’t know, Jess and I share the same birthday (which was earlier this week!) and so we thought it’d be a really good excuse for a few drinks! Please join us if you can – we have an area reserved and I think there’s even potentially some free nibbles for the early birds!

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The International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference is next week, 2-4 Sept. at Heriot-Watt. Hilary Singer, Launch.ed intern and StartupCafe BFF, shares the details with us here:

The Scottish Institute for Enterprise is helping to organise the event. They’re looking for volunteers to help staff the conference. Volunteers would get free food and drink throughout the day, and would get to hear some cool speakers/go to cool workshops.

Some of the sessions include “Ethical Dilemmas for the Entrepreneur” and “Four Ways to Find Enterprising Ideas”. You can see the full schedule here. This is a way to get into the event for free (though there will be some work involved!).

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We were so impressed by our guest blogger Mark Sutherland, that we asked him to stick around for a little while. Mark will be our interim blogger for the next 8 weeks, while I take a bit of a backseat in order to make the final push to finish writing up (and before you ask … don’t 😉 )

Mark agreed to be our victim interviewee this week for our 60 second interview. Please welcome him to the team!

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