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. Global Entrepreneurship Week
5.1. 131 Countries
5.2. Success Stories in Supporting
6. Movember
6.1. Raising Awareness of Prostate Cancer
6.2. Grow a moustache for the month of November
7. IdeaspaceGlobal
7.1. Global Entrepreneurship Week
7.1.1. 130 Countries around the world
7.2. Knowledge base
7.3. workspace
7.4. From inspiration to aspiration
7.4.1. Easier
7.4.2. More successful journey
7.5. World recession
7.5.1. New Entrepreneurs needed
7.5.2. Critical to building economy
7.6. Good news
7.6.1. Understanding how to recognize risks
7.6.2. Getting better at offering genuine support
7.6.3. Education and sharing of knowledge
8. Social Media Illumination
8.1. Figure out strategy
8.1.1. Facebook
8.1.2. Twitter
8.1.3. LinkedIN etc
8.2. Find Clients
9. Innovation Warehouse
9.1. A place to call home
9.2. A place to grow
9.3. Innovative Companies
9.3.1. Funding
9.3.2. Ways to grow
9.3.3. Structured support
10. Challenges to the Entrepreneur
10.1. not necessarilly made a success yet...
10.2. right attitude required
10.3. Not knowing what to do next
10.4. Not knowing how to do it
10.5. Very rarely lack big picture vision
10.6. Fear of the unknown
10.6.1. outside their existing expertise
10.6.1.1. Not Knowing the market
10.6.1.1.1. Overcome this by finding people who do know
10.6.2. outside of their understanding
10.6.3. each step offers more unknowns...
10.6.4. "Blindfolded in a tunnel in the dark"
10.6.4.1. vulnerable to "sharks"
10.6.4.1.1. lured into "dodgey" invention promotion partnership - realize mistake at £16k
10.6.4.2. vulnerable to loss of ideas
10.6.5. Accept bad advice
10.6.5.1. Social Media could be an example
10.7. Fear of failure
10.8. Fear of success
10.8.1. "If I'm too successful I'll never see my family"
10.8.2. Can cripple female entrepreneurs
10.9. Fear itself!
10.10. Lack of contacts
10.10.1. Social Media great to overcome this
10.10.1.1. LinkedIN
10.10.1.1.1. Use testimonials
10.10.2. Review sites
10.10.2.1. Use resource to build testimonials
10.11. Lack of credibility
10.12. The architect
10.12.1. set the vision
10.13. the builder
10.13.1. set the action to make it happen
10.14. Focus on end goal and vision
10.15. Fundamental Business Skills
10.15.1. Managing Cash flow
10.15.2. Strategic Growth Management
10.16. Often doing it alone
10.17. "Life is a process of Iteration"
10.17.1. There is no "failure"
10.17.1.1. People who get it wrong have not failed
10.17.1.2. People who give up too early fail
10.17.2. From learning comes growth
10.17.3. Evolution
10.17.3.1. Move from Biology to Technology
10.17.3.2. Humans are not evolving to have extra thumbs...
10.17.3.2.1. We evolve at a slower rate to technology
10.17.3.3. Technology is evolving at a different speed.
10.17.4. You must follow YOUR journey
10.18. Protecting Intellectual Property whilst building a community
10.18.1. Non-disclosure agreement
10.18.1.1. Still can't talk to too many people
10.18.1.2. Find inventor Clubs/ Trusting Communities
10.18.2. Your community can improve your idea for you
10.18.3. Talk to them about the problem that their idea solves
10.18.4. Apply for a patent or design rights
10.18.4.1. Protect your idea
10.18.4.2. Sometimes its very pertanent to protect with a patent.
10.18.4.2.1. 1 example is responsible for $1 billion turnover in Malaysia - Patent was essential.
10.18.4.2.2. Kane's own designs copies
10.18.4.2.3. Other examples copied
10.18.4.2.4. Sometimes there is every reason to patent
10.18.5. People could steal your idea BUT because they're NOT on the same journey as you it doesn't really matter.
10.18.5.1. Share with as many people as you can
10.18.5.2. Allow the interaction to develop your ideas
10.18.5.3. e.g. of fashion desinger flattered by someone "stealing" his idea - T-shirt business
10.18.6. Danger of paranoia about not sharing
10.18.6.1. People can overrate their own ideas
10.18.6.2. Tell others and it makes it better
10.18.6.3. Take a leap of faith
10.18.6.4. Patents and IP becoming a little old fashioned
10.18.7. No one can steal your vision.
10.19. Social Media
10.19.1. Sharing
10.19.1.1. Twitter all about sharing
10.19.1.1.1. 10 x per day
10.19.1.2. Facebook
10.19.1.2.1. 3 x per day
10.19.1.3. Mind maps BiggerPlate.com
10.19.1.3.1. Slow growth
10.19.1.3.2. Pulling teeth getting people to upload content
10.19.1.3.3. Iterative process
10.19.1.3.4. Tipping point with people's willingness to share content
10.19.1.3.5. Marketing - social networks
10.19.2. Connecting with like minds
10.19.3. Meet people with similar interests
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