1st Wednesday Club

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I think it's a great idea!

They can get their 'Entrepreneur Badges'

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We'd be honoured! They've really got going and we've had some great meets of late.

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Just a reminder, it's tomorrow, usual time and place (unless there's a last minute offer of a venue...). Look forward to seeing you all.

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We should all be sat over in the far left of the pub next to the fire. If we haven't been able to get that place, we will be close by, we'll probably be the only group in the pub with notepads and I'll probably bring along my laptop too so we should be easy to spot. The other group there on a Tuesday is the historic motorbike club and they're easy to distiguish from us car lovers and they are sat in the side room, away from the main bar.

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Sure 8pm as normal, I've lost my voice so will just be smiling and nodding.

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Thanks everyone for a fab evening, the most diverse and unexpected topics/businesses, brilliant. Loved the MX5 snoggledog!

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A lot of online data storage services use the Amazon servers and just put a pretty front end onto some very cheap storage. If you ever need to add lots of data to their servers it can be cheaper to post them the disk than try and get it over the web.

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Great news Don, in this economic climate I'm sure you'll get what you want.

Btw, with it looking like doing these meets on a Wednesday might be better. Can I just please see how this would suit others?

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Brilliant, glad Wednesdays are looking better and hey, we'll double the Irish posse in one fell swoop!

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It's next week and of course, Wednesday. Looks like it'll be a good (10+) turnout so considering we're running out of chairs in the 3M, how about us migrating to The Windmill on the A30. It's altogether a better class of pub than my local, should have ample seating at 8pm and is pretty accessible. There will have been lots of progress made since the last one so I can't wait to see what's happened over the last month

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Thanks Ted, I'm just glad it's proving useful to everyone in getting their ideas off the ground and into profit

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Kinky said:

We could always revert to the SAS spiritual home

Probably a better idea, I will some chairs down that end so we should be fine. Back to the original plan and SAS corner then

Looking forward to it, lots to talk about!

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Yes please, I just went over for Sunday lunch and they will have the whole 'sportsmans room' free if we need it so the 3M as normal should be fine.

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Just a reminder that it's tonight.

I've a few updates personally, got back in front of some potential investors/partners on a new idea and had really positive feedback.

And, I have a new group of 'Dragons' who are looking for new ideas and are willing to come across and meet with us on a Wednesday (one to one, some time soon) to talk potential investment in anything any of us have developed...the er gauntlet is down!

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[quote=kiwifraser]Lucky me, I'm in Stoke on Trent tonight Have a good night all. [/quote

Oatcakes and cheese are worth a try. Apparently 100 years ago when Stokey soldiers returned from time in India they asked their wives to create chapaties, industrious lot that they are they turned to oats and hey presto, it's a staple of the Stoke diet and seamingly nowhere else (they taste nothing like chapaties btw). They are cheap and filling especially if your a student around those parts

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Stevie

Over the past year we have had lots of people who have come along, thinking that maybe they either don't have anything to offer or that what they do is too specific for this forum to be useful to them. Everyone who has come along has pretty much come away with their head spinning with ideas and new contacts, I can hand on heart say that no one has never turned up and presented something, sought answers and not got anything useful back, it's staggering the amount of resources and knowledge and capability at these meetings. It would be worth coming along and seeing what happens, worst case you just meet a new load petrolheads and enjoy the beer selection, best case we solve all of your business 'challenges'

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omgus said:

I may try to pop down tonight, and possibly bring the OH as she is much more switched on than me, although i do feel i fall firmly into the "not much to contribute" category.

I will even try to arrive before everyone is getting ready to leave this time.

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they are becoming so busy that there is plenty of space for people who just want to sit, listen and drink, and even occasionally say ''rubbish'', ''that's brilliant'', ''I'm in''...

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PetrolTed said:

Gus, it can be incredibly useful just to have people there to bounce ideas off. You may be a potential consumer or customer of products and services that people are considering.

I certainly value getting as many opinions as possible from as wide a variety of people as I can.

that was the more intelligent response

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Thanks Ted. I really enjoyed it and was so pleased to see ideas genuinely moving on. And, it's good that some people turn up with a desire to create something and make their fortune, but don't currently have an idea. That in itself is a problem that the group can probably fairly easily solve, not only that, it's good fun to do it and even if what eventually succeeds looks nothing like what you started with, each month if it is potentially tweaked and improved upon, with such a good bunch of brains at every meeting the idea should quickly be steered on to a course that will ensure the business works.

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Just a reminder that it's next week and after 7 years I have some progress on my business adventure, thanks in a small way to the support and focus of the monthly meetings