Tim Cinel

Do you ever consider what components of your power bill add up to the rate that you’re paying? According to innovative British engineer Allan Jones, about 20% of the rate accounts for actual electricity. The majority of the rate is to pay for distribution, power loss and government grid fees. Jones recognised these financial and fuel inefficiencies and proposed a solution, local decentralised power, that managed to save a council 80% in energy costs and is now being implemented in London. (more…)

Listen to this “naghty nanna” sex line prank call and you’ll agree, unless you’re aroused by Salad Fingers…

Have a listen to the funniest but creepiest prank call made on Fox FM’s Matt & Jo show - the segment is about five minutes into it:

Hosted on Fox FM: Creepy Phone Sex Line

All I can say is … “Cock a doodle -doooo - hooo - hooo”

Grettle Would Smile At That

Business Plan Disasters

Ten disastrous mistakes made in business plans

 
Listening to the StartupNation podcast this morning (it’s like 4:39am), I came across a discussion how to improve the chances of a young business. To begin the topic, they started with a reverse top-ten list on business plan mistakes. I want to remember it so that’s why I’m writing and publishing it here. (more…)

Last week’s Big Ideas podcast from ABC Radio National poses a curious concept… Professor Niall Ferguson applies the concept that organisms adapt to their surrounding environment to the financial world. In most cases, the theory seems to be proven by history. Listen to the lecture on lessons from financial history.

Just listening to my podcasts and caught a particularly interesting and useful episode (#68) of SmallBizPod - the small business podcast. This specific episode is an interview with Rachel Elnaugh - a ’serial entrepreneur’ that used to be on the Dragon’s Den in the UK.

The points that I found most interesting were… (more…)