Dragon’s recruitment company fined for price fixing
Eden Brown, one of James Caan’s companies, was hit with a fine by the Office of Fair Trading today. Five other agencies were fined for acting as a cartel so they could price fix. The companies were also accused of a collective boycott of another agency in the supply of candidates to the construction industry. Hays Recruitment was hit with the biggest fine of £30m. This is just one of many reasons why I NEVER use recruitment agencies. I really don’t like them (I’m being very diplomatic with my wording here!!)

To protect or not to protect twitter updates?
I’m sitting in Le Pain Quotidien cafe wondering what I can work on until my cinema date at 8pm arrives and a wonderful tweet comes in from my good friend Jackie Danicki, inspiring this wee blog post. It’s obviously in response to someone complaining about how some people protect their twitter updates. Below is what Jackie said (because they’re protected, I asked if it was ok to quote her). Astonished at how entitled some people feel to see others’ Twitter updates. I use Twitter for my uses; you use it for yours. Protected updates mean I can converse

Entrepreneurs are not entitled to anything
After leaving a comment on my buddy’s blog (the fantastic Pat Phelan), I thought it was worth posting it here as I feel quite strongly about this subject. In short, the debate is about the lack of support from the Irish Government when it comes to supporting startups’ attendance to industry conferences. Read Pat’s blog post here My thoughts I agree governments (not just the Irish one, but others too as they’re all the same wherever you go) should do more to help small businesses - especially