Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ]

14/12/06 Book: Duncan Bannatyne - Anyone Can Do It

I’ve been waiting to blog this for a while and finally got the chance this afternoon. I’ve been reading Duncan Bannatyne’s autobiography - “Anyone Can Do It” and really enjoying it. I love reading about people who made all their money themselves, rather than starting with a hand-me-down.

Duncan began life selling ice-creams and moved into nursing homes, now he’s now worth £170m! Somehow though it all seems to come to him so quickly & easily. Mind you- anyone with the ‘chutzpah’ to take out 4 credit cards and max them all out to fund your first building has the guts to do anything. I always wonder though, for every one of these winners, there must be 99 losers with devastated lives living in debt.

I have created a custom Amazon store of my recommended reading lists and book reviews. You can get your own copy of Anyone Can Do It here.

In the last few weeks I’ve also read Gordon Ramsay’s “Humble Pie“, and Levitts & Dubner’s “Freakonomics“. Both worthwhile taking a look at.

Today - Google launched Google Patent Search using the Book Search technology to make 7 million US patents searchable. This is invaluable to me. While documentation has always been online - it’s never been easy or quick to find patents. I suddenly can browse the secrets (protected secrets) of the technologies I’d like to have invested, how about Electronic device precision location via local broadcast signals, A Computer (Sony 1985) or how about… A Portable Terminal (aka Laptop, Motorola 1990).

-Robin

Tags: anyone can do it, Books, Duncan Bannatyne, General, Observations

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