[Bouncing Back]

Bouncing Back was an event put on last Tuesday by the Cambridge Network to provide an opportunity for entrepreneurs to get together to network and discuss common issues.

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m still working out what the term “networking” entails. Other than milling around a room feeling like Billy-no-mates. Like most of these things, it’s not as bad as it first seems - things were a little awkward initially, but by the end of the day I’d started to get into the swing of it. I found it encouraging just to talk to other people in a similar situation to myself, and the exposure to new ideas adds valuable fresh blood to the creative gene pool in my head. When my software is further along then such opportunities will be of even greater value.

The seminars were the main draw for me, and over the next couple of days I’ll devote a separate post to each one I attended:

• Marketing Without a Budget
• Presentation by Walter Herriot (St. John's Innovation Centre)
• Managing From The Ground Up
• Doing More With Less
• Protect Your Idea
• Presentation by Robert Swann of Alphamosaic