Archive for the ‘Business Start Up’ Category

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  10 Jun

  Diamondthrills Is Away… In Africa

  It’s been a while since I was able to update this Blog, but things have changed here at Diamondthrills, so here’s the scoop (more…)

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  27 Oct

  Why a $3 coffee beats a $500 hotel room

  This is one of those blog posts which has little to do with diamonds or jewellery but is an observation about markets, or perhaps market failure (more…)

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  29 Apr

  Building trust… through Facebook

  We hire out precious diamond jewellery, so how do we establish trust with our customers, not just their trust in us (more…)

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  13 Apr

  A life without wheels: update

  In January I blogged about the news that we had sold our car and were trying to a life of ‘rentalism’ – getting around with the help of Zipcar, Whipcar, taxis (more…)

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  26 Jan

  Living ‘rentalism’: Now we’re hip Zipsters

  At Diamondthrills we’ve taken a high-value product that is traditionally owned and turned it into something borrowed (more…)

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  14 Jan

  We’re on-trend. It’s official.

  I spent some time over the holiday period catching up by reading old-fashioned things like newspapers, looking for new innovations in business and predictions for 2011 (more…)

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  30 Dec

  Our 10 most popular Blog posts in 2010

  It’s that slightly unsettling void in the calendar between Christmas and New Year when most people aren’t sure whether they should be resting, dieting, exercising (more…)

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  07 Sep

  Our diamonds dazzle in the Dragons’ Den

  Last night’s episode of hit BBC TV show Dragons’ Den featured me pitching Diamondthrills to the famous five Dragons (more…)

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  04 Aug

  Boris and bikes and diamonds

  We started to notice some unusual construction going on around us here at Diamondthrills a couple of months ago (more…)