1. BiggerPlate.com
1.1. Mindmapping content and community
1.2. Free resource - shared information
1.3. Entrepreneurial Community
1.4. Tools to drive innovation
2. Turn around Coaching and Consultancy
2.1. Build a business and keep your life
2.2. Often its one or the other
2.3. Aligning actions with real vision for the future
3. British Inventors Society
3.1. British Invention Show
3.1.1. British Invention of the Year Awards
3.2. The importance of experimentation
3.3. Innovation and Technology drives progress
3.3.1. underpins quality of lifestyle
4. Kauffmann Foundation
4.1. How do we stimulate more start-up communities?
4.1.1. Policy
4.1.2. Guidance
4.1.2.1. Field exploded
4.1.2.2. Evidence based information
4.1.2.3. Guide more effectively
4.1.2.4. Measure what works
4.1.2.5. A lot of experiementation
4.1.2.6. First do no harm
4.1.3. Global Brainstorm
4.2. Too much attention has been given to the importance of capital
4.2.1. Need less now to start-up
4.2.2. seen as a badge of honour to the entrepreneur
4.2.3. need to get smarter about the money game
4.2.4. bootstrap for longer
4.2.4.1. BOOK: The Lean Start-up
4.3. Creation of the firm is a slow iterative process
4.3.1. Not stop/start
4.3.2. Less about mechanical parts
4.3.2.1. Business plans
4.3.2.2. Incorporation
4.3.3. A question of figuring out the formula that works
4.3.4. More about the essence of the idea
4.3.5. How do I start solving a problem...
4.4. "Building airplanes in flight"
4.4.1. demonstrate the quality of the idea
4.4.2. Its a team sport
4.5. Create the right environment
4.5.1. Make it easy for people to collaborate
4.5.2. Do entrepreneurs create venture capitalists or do V.C's create entrepreneurs?
5. Challenges to the Entrepreneur
5.1. not necessarilly made a success yet...
5.2. right attitude required
5.3. Not knowing what to do next
5.4. Not knowing how to do it
5.5. Very rarely lack big picture vision
5.6. Fear of the unknown
5.6.1. outside their existing expertise
5.6.1.1. Not Knowing the market
5.6.1.1.1. Overcome this by finding people who do know
5.6.2. outside of their understanding
5.6.3. each step offers more unknowns...
5.6.4. "Blindfolded in a tunnel in the dark"
5.6.4.1. vulnerable to "sharks"
5.6.4.1.1. lured into "dodgey" invention promotion partnership - realize mistake at £16k
5.6.4.2. vulnerable to loss of ideas
5.6.5. Accept bad advice
5.6.5.1. Social Media could be an example
5.7. Fear of failure
5.8. Fear of success
5.8.1. "If I'm too successful I'll never see my family"
5.8.2. Can cripple female entrepreneurs
5.9. Fear itself!
5.10. Lack of contacts
5.10.1. Social Media great to overcome this
5.10.1.1. LinkedIN
5.10.1.1.1. Use testimonials
5.10.2. Review sites
5.10.2.1. Use resource to build testimonials
5.11. Lack of credibility
5.12. The architect
5.12.1. set the vision
5.13. the builder
5.13.1. set the action to make it happen
5.14. Focus on end goal and vision
5.15. Fundamental Business Skills
5.15.1. Managing Cash flow
5.15.2. Strategic Growth Management
5.16. Often doing it alone
5.17. "Life is a process of Iteration"
5.17.1. There is no "failure"
5.17.1.1. People who get it wrong have not failed
5.17.1.2. People who give up too early fail
5.17.2. From learning comes growth
5.17.3. Evolution
5.17.3.1. Move from Biology to Technology
5.17.3.2. Humans are not evolving to have extra thumbs...
5.17.3.2.1. We evolve at a slower rate to technology
5.17.3.3. Technology is evolving at a different speed.
5.17.4. You must follow YOUR journey
5.18. Protecting Intellectual Property whilst building a community
5.18.1. Non-disclosure agreement
5.18.1.1. Still can't talk to too many people
5.18.1.2. Find inventor Clubs/ Trusting Communities
5.18.2. Your community can improve your idea for you
5.18.3. Talk to them about the problem that their idea solves
5.18.4. Apply for a patent or design rights
5.18.4.1. Protect your idea
5.18.4.2. Sometimes its very pertanent to protect with a patent.
5.18.4.2.1. 1 example is responsible for $1 billion turnover in Malaysia - Patent was essential.
5.18.4.2.2. Kane's own designs copies
5.18.4.2.3. Other examples copied
5.18.4.2.4. Sometimes there is every reason to patent
5.18.5. People could steal your idea BUT because they're NOT on the same journey as you it doesn't really matter.
5.18.5.1. Share with as many people as you can
5.18.5.2. Allow the interaction to develop your ideas
5.18.5.3. e.g. of fashion desinger flattered by someone "stealing" his idea - T-shirt business
5.18.6. Danger of paranoia about not sharing
5.18.6.1. People can overrate their own ideas
5.18.6.2. Tell others and it makes it better
5.18.6.3. Take a leap of faith
5.18.6.4. Patents and IP becoming a little old fashioned
5.18.7. No one can steal your vision.
5.19. Social Media
5.19.1. Sharing
5.19.1.1. Twitter all about sharing
5.19.1.1.1. 10 x per day
5.19.1.2. Facebook
5.19.1.2.1. 3 x per day
5.19.1.3. Mind maps BiggerPlate.com
5.19.1.3.1. Slow growth
5.19.1.3.2. Pulling teeth getting people to upload content
5.19.1.3.3. Iterative process
5.19.1.3.4. Tipping point with people's willingness to share content
5.19.1.3.5. Marketing - social networks
5.19.2. Connecting with like minds
5.19.3. Meet people with similar interests
6. Global Entrepreneurship Week
6.1. 131 Countries
6.2. Success Stories in Supporting
7. Movember
7.1. Raising Awareness of Prostate Cancer
7.2. Grow a moustache for the month of November
8. IdeaspaceGlobal
8.1. Global Entrepreneurship Week
8.1.1. 130 Countries around the world
8.2. Knowledge base
8.3. workspace
8.4. From inspiration to aspiration
8.4.1. Easier
8.4.2. More successful journey
8.5. World recession
8.5.1. New Entrepreneurs needed
8.5.2. Critical to building economy
8.6. Good news
8.6.1. Understanding how to recognize risks
8.6.2. Getting better at offering genuine support
8.6.3. Education and sharing of knowledge
9. Social Media Illumination
9.1. Figure out strategy
9.1.1. Facebook
9.1.2. Twitter
9.1.3. LinkedIN etc
9.2. Find Clients
10. Innovation Warehouse
10.1. A place to call home
10.2. A place to grow
10.3. Innovative Companies
10.3.1. Funding
10.3.2. Ways to grow
10.3.3. Structured support
11. What do Entrepreneurs need to know in order to succeed?
11.1. From people who have been there before...
11.2. What are some of the challenges they are likely to face
11.3. How to overcome such challenges
11.4. How to generate ideas
11.5. How to make these happen
12. Inherent fears
12.1. Be honest with yourself
12.2. What's blocking you?
12.3. "I don't know where I'm going"
12.4. Will my idea work
12.5. What happens when it goes wrong...
13. The Collective Concious - Bringining Minds Together
13.1. Inquisitive People
13.2. Been thinking this way since childhood
14. Mind Maps
14.1. Benefits of Mindmaps
14.1.1. Management
14.1.1.1. people
14.1.1.2. projects
14.1.2. Visual dashboard
14.1.3. creating visions
14.1.4. analysing disasters
14.1.5. see big picture easily
14.1.6. drill down details
14.2. All 500 of Fortune 500 Companies use mindmaps
14.3. How to draw a mind map
14.3.1. start with specific subject in mind
14.3.2. build out the relevance with seperate branches and headings
14.4. Slow thoughts down to the point where we can hear them.
15. Types of Thinking
15.1. Lateral Thinking
15.1.1. Understanding the logical thread of thought
15.1.2. Moving across these
15.2. Parallel thinking
15.2.1. Approaching a situation from the same perspective at the same time
15.2.2. 6 Thinking Hats Parallel Thinking Tool
15.2.2.1. Edward de Bono
15.2.3. Whether Forecast™ Parallel Thinking Tool
15.2.3.1. Celia Gates
15.3. Critical Thinking
15.3.1. Limiting
15.3.2. Judgemental
15.3.3. Negative
15.4. Creative Thinking
15.4.1. the creation of value
15.5. Thinking skills can be taught
15.5.1. willingness to accept ideas
15.5.2. willingness to obtain movement from them
15.6. Decisions
15.6.1. Pros and Cons
15.6.2. Quadratic Approach
15.6.3. Edward de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats
15.6.4. Celia Gates' Whether Forecast
15.7. Procrastination
15.7.1. Indecision
15.7.1.1. costs more than recovering from the wrong decision
15.7.2. waste time worrying
15.7.3. consume resources without learning anything new
15.8. Holistic Thinking
15.8.1. Embracing critical and creative thinking skills simultaneously
15.8.2. stimulating sparks of genius
15.8.3. collaborative communication from a parallel approach
15.8.4. Whether Forecast
15.8.4.1. Intuitive and easy
15.8.4.2. Time saving
15.8.4.2.1. 45 mins in the hour
15.8.4.3. Innovation generating
16. Over the centuries little attention has been paid to thinking
16.1. Greek Gang of 3
16.1.1. Plato
16.1.2. Aristotle
16.1.3. Socrates
16.1.4. 2 dimentional approach
16.1.4.1. Black and white
16.1.4.2. Pros and cons
16.2. Cave Man Thinking
16.2.1. What is this?
16.3. The Church
16.3.1. by means of obtaining the truth
16.4. Logical Thinking
16.4.1. Taught in Schools
16.4.2. Routeen approach
16.4.2.1. Ecellent but not good enough