Business 'n' Beer Group

[PetrolTed]

Any regulars from the PH business forum in here?

[DKL]

I have a read through most days.

[xkrGiles]

why do you ask ?

[_Batty_]

Read not post.
Everyones doing better than us

[PetrolTed]

There was a spin off in the Thames Valley forum where about half a dozen of us got together for a beer each month to kick ideas around, share experiences and spur each other on. I was wondering if there was any appetite in this neck of the woods for such a thing.

[_Batty_]

PetrolTed said:

There was a spin off in the Thames Valley forum where about half a dozen of us got together for a beer each month to kick ideas around, share experiences and spur each other on. I was wondering if there was any appetite in this neck of the woods for such a thing.

Beer I can do.
Useful ideas I may struggle with.

[jimbouk]

Sounds a good idea, I would be interested.

[oblio]

PetrolTed said:

There was a spin off in the Thames Valley forum where about half a dozen of us got together for a beer each month to kick ideas around, share experiences and spur each other on. I was wondering if there was any appetite in this neck of the woods for such a thing.

Hi Dave

Can you expand on the type of topics you would kick around, typically?

Graham

[Vantage man]

Yes I would be up for this as well maybe a monthly meet at a decent hotel

[TDIfurby]

Possibly. As a chartered accountant I might be able to help on some things. Would be curious what kind of thing would be discussed though.

[PetrolTed]

A variety of projects were discussed each month. The driving force behind the Thames Valley version was Hewlett who is brimming with energy and ideas and could be relied upon to have some crazy plan each month.

He wanted to do the meetings to keep him focused, reporting back each month on what progress he'd made. He's done well too, pushing a new project along and he's starting to get some media attention for it now.

I pitched in with updates on what I'm up to, kicking around ideas on Tedvertiser (as was) and how to market it etc.

Other attendees included chaps with established businesses looking for some fresh thinking on challenges they were having or people in regular jobs who needed some support to make the leap into self employment.

Personally I just enjoy talking shop and finding a few people on the same wavelength to kick around ideas with.

[lankybob]

That sounds like a great idea to me.

[splodge s4]

And me, i'd be up for it.

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

if the numbers stack up and the right people are behind it
( read that as decent pub)

i'm in

[AngryApples]

I'm up for this

Due to launch a new business end of Jan/beginning of Feb and have a few ideas floating so sounds like a good idea.

Currently work away in Reading so have little time at the moment, but hopefully I'll be working from home quite soon so a lot more evenings etc for such things

AA


ETA: I'm sure there's a lot we could all learn from Ted and Owen (Obi) at the very least (no insult intended to anyone else - just dont know their Business experience)

Edited by AngryApples on Sunday 16th January 09:38

[miniman]

I would definitely be up for this.

[PetrolTed]

Oh... and we get to talk about cars too

Perhaps in the first instance, we should just see who's interested, what area of business they are in or want to be in and where people are.

Please add yourselves in and let's see if we've got sufficient people in the right place:

Business n Beer Group
PetrolTed, Nailsworth, ex PH, now working on a new 'social' (hate that term!) website.

[miniman]

Business n Beer Group
PetrolTed, Nailsworth, ex PH, now working on a new 'social' (hate that term!) website.
miniman, Castle Combe, MD of SiftGroups, social media consultancy, mostly working with charities, membership orgs and publishers

[ewenm]

Sounds like a good idea. I'm working 20hrs a week at the moment with my main client and thinking about further ideas to sell work and/or develop more applications. Young baby tends to take up the extra hours in the week though

Business n Beer Group
PetrolTed, Nailsworth, ex PH, now working on a new 'social' (hate that term!) website.
miniman, Castle Combe, MD of SiftGroups, social media consultancy, mostly working with charities, membership orgs and publishers
ewenm, Bath, IT Contractor, Oracle specialist, techy, data migrations and interfaces mainly.

Edited by ewenm on Saturday 15th January 18:05

[AngryApples]

Business n Beer Group
PetrolTed, Nailsworth, ex PH, now working on a new 'social' (hate that term!) website

miniman, Castle Combe, MD of SiftGroups, social media consultancy, mostly working with charities, membership orgs and publishers

ewenm, Bath, IT Contractor, Oracle specialist, techy, data migrations and interfaces mainly.

AngryApples, WSM, IT Contractor, Software Tester (Oracle/SQL/Wintel/Etc - mainly Local and Central Govt focused) - starting a financials website but also have ideas for other areas (previously founded 2 other websites, 1 tanked other now run solely by ex partner)