Network recruitment

We use friends and family to recruit staff as often as possible–it certainly keeps costs down for a small company. We’re not quite YouTube, yet.

Ticketless travel insurance

Lovely idea from Mumbai. You get an Rs200 fine for travelling without an Rs8 ticket. This is sufficiently high to deter most of the 6m people travelling each day. Given that there is no system able to check everyone, random checks are the order of the day. Along comes...

Phone interviews

Joel’s take on phone interviews. I take a similar approach: you kind of know pretty rapidly what your instincts are – it’s then a question of “Prove me wrong” if your instinct is no and “Show me the money” if the instinct is...

Free, legal downloads

Would you watch ads to get free, quality music for download. Yes, I’d do that, I think. Now, if Microsoft was funding it, that would be a very clever way to get back at Apple’s dominance of this market. Also, if you could pay extra for a higher-quality or...

Tesco US

Interesting to see the US starting to wonder what effect Tesco might have, given that WalMart isn’t doing well against them in Blighty.