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How true! Kevin’s comment just goes to highlight the whole value of the Fishbowl. Setting up and running a business can seem easy if you’re thinking about it from your armchair as you watch Dragon’s Den or the Apprentice, but as the outgoing Fishbowl businesses have amply demonstrated, it certainly isn’t. It requires determination, clarity, energy and courage. And you need all of those to take a brave and honest look at progress over the past months, as the businesses end their swim around the Fishbowl. Here are some pointers to help them reflect.

The world of online social media is an absolute minefield, lets not make any bones about it! It seems like the world does not like to engage face to face anymore, as if technology is the alpha and omega of communication!

It would also to fair to say that the art of relationship building is being replaced by a .com after your name! But i do believe that its about using the right tools, for the right reasons and not allowing those tools to use you..

Matt's from Bean2Bed has placed a recent blog, that really highlights one of the most important yet difficult things, as an entrepreneur - juggling multiple tasks all at the same time, whilst looking after your own personal well-being!

It gives you such a buzz when your 'on it' i.e running around, having meetings, making decisions, collaborating with others etc etc, but all that activity can be counter productive and have a negative impact on the most important piece of the entrepreneurial jigsaw..you!

Do you take the time out to stop, think, reflect and even breath? One of the experts Richard from Midven, rightly talked about having a strategy to ensure you can deliver your objectives, but do you set a strategy for your own personal welll-being?

As ever the Soshi guys have found a clever way of tackling their financial challenges of engaging employees at the early stages of their business by using the willing volunteers across the gaming community.By doing this Soshi get the expertise they need while also providing invaluable real world experience for talented graduates to build their CV.  However, what looks like a win-win for all involved can quickly turn into a legal minefield.

A number of things which Matt from Bean2Bed said recently in his blog about age have struck a chord with me. Ever since leaving university, I have been working with colleagues much senior than me. Typically I am always the youngest in the boardroom - by a long way! I'm a firm believer that age, sex and any other characteristic are irrelevant as long as you deliver in your role.