jonescmj1 wrote:Stan A. Einstein wrote:jonescmj1 wrote:Frank Nouble 3 wrote:"Entrepreneurial Insight"
100% spot on.
Why would they?
Seriously this whole thread comes across as some pipe dream, you never even kept in touch,
from what you stated with the chap who offered you free space!
To state the sizes do not matter and the insults you continue to chuck in on a thread with over a 1000 hits is pretty well
closing the door for you regardless of what you think of another poster.
Like I said thanks for deeds previously past, but this is a non starter imo.
And your opinion is not an informed opinion! It's called a prejudiced opinion, which derives from Latin or Greek and infers pre-judged, and if it's not Roman or Greek, it's Klingon, who cares!
Praejudiceum. It is Latin. Quite literally it means to prejudge. Not Greek, not Klingon.
In my poverty stricken younger days in Bettws, practising my conversational Latin, Greek and other classical languages was the only thing that kept me sane. So yes Colin I do care. God how I longed to be wealthy like the Malpas boys. No stork margarine for me, I had to make out with dripping from my Mam's frying pan. And the one sausage my dad got of a Sunday, well the fat from that had to see me through the week. And wiping my bum with old copies of the Argus? Fat chance, back then the Argus cost 3d. Afford that? You must be joking. I remember the winter of 62/63. The whole family sat around a single candle for warmth. I remember the last words of my dear old Gran, just before she froze to death. "F@ck" she said, "If only we had a match to light the bloody candle."
And you think you had it tough.
But despite being poor and heterosexual, I somehow managed to drag myself up from the gutter. But only because I knew the difference between Latin and Greek, and was able to join the Middle Temple.
Attention to detail, old chap.
I didn't give a rat's arse about Latin, it didn't pay the tally man, the milk round, paper-round, working at the greengrocer in Russel Drive did. Now how about we call a truce and you research the UK legal issues surrounding the making, by craftspeople, of Bathbombs, moulds, lipsalves, colours, butterbases, soap bases, shampoo bases, etc as can be found on the website, then we'll know the subtle differences in the UK market to the ANZ/NZ/US markets, any effort to replicate in the UK we would need to overcome.
More than happy to call a truce.
I know nothing of trust law, consumer law etc. I specialized in Criminal defence and immigration. I suppose I can tell you the basics, or rather the principles but with the caveat that you should not rely on what I say.
I genuinely wish you every success and I am happy to reiterate that I applaud you and anyone else who has an idea to fundraise.
I do think though that you need to pay far more attention to detail. For me you need to address two points. Firstly volunteers can't be expected to have the same commitment as we all do to our careers. I'm sure when you began your enterprise you will have worked all hours. Volunteers only have a limited time. Volunteers can't be expected to do complicated work. There are going to be costs and expertise does not come cheap.
Secondly, stop seeing criticism as bad. Rather than run before you can walk try developing a plan which enables specific people who may be willing to volunteer to have specific limited tasks. Having read your website and posts there is nothing I have seen that has enthused me.
Look at Uptheport's lottery idea. I'm sure that deep down everyone involved knows it's one hell of a long shot. But it's fun and it's simple. Jim also doesn't p1ss everyone off by calling them blockers, negligent, etc if they choose not to join. At least think along the same lines.
Try breaking it down, small scale and simple. If it works great, you can build on that. If it fails, well at least you tried.
And here's the thing. I think your idea will fail. But that is because most ideas do. But some succeed and yours might be the one. But if you don't plan you will strangle it at birth.
Oh and one more thing. I won't laugh if you fail. On the contrary the only way to succeed is to fail and get up. And to fail again and again get up. Because sooner or later an idea comes along which works.