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In this fantastic episode, Amy and Chay have the pleasure of speaking with Jonathan Moules, an allotment holder from East London. Jonathan Moules is a newsletter editor for the Financial Times and writer of The Week Ahead. He also writes about business education and entrepreneurship and hosted the FT podcast Start-Up Stories, which aired for five seasons. Jonathan has become a recent allotmenteer and, interestingly, has begun publishing monthly articles about allotments for the FT. Jonathan discusses the process of getting his article idea on allotments approved and how it relates to entrepreneurship, business, and start-up companies. More specifically, Jonathan discusses how the last 18 months have gone since obtaining an allotment plot and what his future plans are. He also offers tips and advice for those new to the wonderful world of allotments.Jonathan will be publishing articles about allotments on a monthly basis for the Financial Times. Here is Jonathans first ever article on allotments for FT: https://www.ft.com/content/a7689391-2d3c-42fa-b09a-b2554d7ba4f6If you have any questions you would like to ask us or would like to collaborate with us, then please contact us on: allotmentdiariespodcast@gmail.com. You can also follow our social media accounts: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Allotment Diaries Podcast is a podcast that examines what has worked well and what hasn't worked so well when it comes to having an allotment plot. It seeks to give an honest insight into what owning an allotment plot is actually about.
PAINEL: RELACIONAMENTO ENTRE GERAÇÕES E APRENDIZAGENS Moderadores: Aida Baptista, Manuela Marujo e Diniz Borges Bisavós no Brasil? Uma contextualização sociodemográfica Emily Schuler (Universidade Católica de Pernambuco) As avós encarceradas e seus netos: um olhar da psicogerontologia Daniely da Silva Dias Vilela (Universidade Católica de Pernambuco); Cristina Maria de Souza Brito Dias (Universidade Católica de Pernambuco); Cirlene Francisca de Sales da Silva (Universidade Católica de Pernambuco). Os pais como mediadores do relacionamento avós e netos Rodrigo de Oliveira Aureliano (Uni. Católica de Pernambuco); Cristina Maria de Souza Brito Dias ((Uni. Católica de Pernambuco) Avós e netos/as adultos/as jovens: como se dá essa relação? Cirlene Francisca de Sales da Silva (UNICAP); Cristina Maria de Souza Brito Dias (UNICAP); Daniely da Silva Dias Vilela (UNICAP) Guardiões da oralidade: avós contadores de histórias e sua importância para o desenvolvimento infantil Alana Evellyn da Silva Almeida (Discente do Curso de Pedagogia/ UFPB; Voluntária/ Extensão, Ester Balbina Barbosa Discente do Curso de Pedagogia/ UFPB; Voluntária/ Extensão, Andrielly Souza da Silva Discente do Curso de Pedagogia/ UFPB; Voluntária/ Extensão, Victor Flávio Alves Palma Discente do Curso de Pedagogia/UFPB; Bolsista do projeto;, Adriana Pereira Lopes Educadora de FREI/João Pessoa/PB; Colaboradora externa, Maria Teresa Barros Falcão Coelho Docente do Departamento de Fundamentação da Educação (UFPB); Orientadora e Coordenadora do projeto) UFPB-Universidade Federal de Paraíba) Língua e identidade: a importância do relacionamento intergeracional avós-netos nos materiais didáticos em contexto universitário Luciana Graça (Leitora IC, Universidade de Toronto, Canadá); Manuela Marujo (Prof. Emérita, Universidade de Toronto, Canadá 11h00-12h00 Avós da Diáspora, a Voz da Memória: Gerações, Migração e Língua Rosa Maria Neves Simas (Professora Emérita, Universidade dos Açores) Participação de jovens adultos da Diáspora Portuguesa nos EUA (bilingue) Andrew Figueiredo, Brandi Garcia, Kayla Faria, Jonathan Moules and Angela Simões.
This video by FT business education correspondent Jonathan Moules looks at how the b school landscape has changed since the FT first began its now highly-respected rankings in 1999. Then there were no Asian schools in the top 50. Today there are 13, among them 4 from China. video source, http://www.ftchinese.com/video/3026
Alex Klein tells Jonathan Moules about his ambition to transform attitudes to computing with his kit to help people of all ages make their own and write the programmes to go with them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Geoff Watts and Julia Fowler co-founded EDITED, an innovative tech company that brings data analysis to the retail industry, nearly a decade ago. They tell Jonathan Moules that the toughest problem they've faced was when they hired someone who wasn't a team player. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Twenty years ago, Chetan Dube left the world of academia, at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, to pursue a career in business. He tells Jonathan Moules what inspired the move. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Michelle You, co-founder of the music ticketing and concert discovery platform Songkick, tells Jonathan Moules about the fun of creating a business, and the sense of failure she felt after the company was acquired by Time Warner. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Sarah Murray’s mobile alarm and tracking technology company faced an early setback when a government contract she’d been pinning her hopes on fell through. She tells Jonathan Moules how she dealt with the disappointment and bounced back. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Julie Deane set up the Cambridge Satchel Company as a way of financing her children's education, but its rapid success attracted outside investors and the venture took a direction that made her feel uncomfortable. She tells Jonathan Moules how she regained her confidence and took back control. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
If you are trying to fill a gap in the market and a very conservative industry tells you it can’t be done, then go for it because there is “massive opportunity and the sky’s the limit”, iZettle’s Jacob de Geer tells Jonathan Moules See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
After a gap of several years, Stanford Business School has returned to the top of the FT's annual MBA rankings. Wai Kwen Chan discusses the data and the reasons for Stanford's success with the FT's Laurent Ortmans and Jonathan Moules See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jeff Raider has helped pioneer a high quality, low cost model for selling consumer products like glasses and razors online. He tells Jonathan Moules how he did it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A crowded train journey home after a Chicago baseball game provided the inspiration for Katie Hill-Gottesman's Commuter Ads business, as she tells Jonathan Moules See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Emily Brooke wanted to help solve the worst problem faced by urban cyclists - safety. She tells Jonathan Moules how she went about it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Will Dean tells Jonathan Moules how a legal challenge acted as a catalyst for the growth of his extreme sports business Tough Mudder. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh imagined a product for fixing things that would help end the global throw-away culture. She tells Jonathan Moules how she turned her idea from a fun concept into a reality. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
William Sargent founded his visual effects company over 30 years ago in London’s Soho district, and tells Jonathan Moules that the location was key to the early success of the business. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Listen to Jonathan Moules and Laurent Ortmans analyse the FT’s new ranking of business schools that shows a growing preference for entrepreneurship among students. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Six entrepreneurs who have featured in recent episodes of FT Start-up Stories discuss survival strategies and key ingredients for success with Jonathan Moules in front of an invited audience at the Financial Times in London. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mixcloud, a music streaming service, got off the ground and achieved profitability without any external funding - something highly impressive and unusual in the world of tech start-ups. Nikhil Shah tells Jonathan Moules the story. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Daniel Reilly made a mistake that is all too common among tech entrepreneurs. He failed to test the strength of demand for his product before launching it onto the market. But the experience left him with a renewed respect for founders and helped him to discover what he really wanted, he tells Jonathan Moules. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Shakil Khan and his co-founder kept their student accommodation website out of the media spotlight during its early years while they tested the market and its global potential. He tells Jonathan Moules why he thinks this was the right strategy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
John Stapleton co-founded a successful food business in the UK and then sold the business with the idea of setting up a similar venture in the US. As he tells Jonathan Moules, things didn't quite go to plan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode, Carlos was joined by Jonathan Moules, a long-standing journalist for the Financial Times. Jonathan imparts his wisdom having worked with entrepreneurs for over the last decade to deliver the best stories for the FT. He has worked through the first dot-com boom and switched focus in 2005 to focus fully on Founders. Jonathan provides great advice on how to tell the human element of a story, how best to create and build a relationship with a journalist, how to spot bad PR's and what stories work best for him.
Richard Walton moved from London to Costa Rica to take up surfing and run his business remotely from there after a health scare prompted him to rethink his work-life balance. He tells Jonathan Moules how it worked out. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Ismael Ahmed, an expert in remittances, used funds from a compensation award to finance his start-up WorldRemit. He tells Jonathan Moules that a successful revenue model was key to attracting the second stage funding he needed to go global. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Alicia Navarro has been dubbed the 'queen of the pivots', a process of developing a business by changing the direction of travel - and living with an expectation of constant change. She tells Jonathan Moules her story. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
UK founder Jamie Waller tells Jonathan Moules how an ethical approach helped him get ahead of rivals in the debt collection business See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Dutch entrepreneur Siete Hamminge tells Jonathan Moules how his tech start-up was nearly undone by the long lead times required to seal deals with big companies. He found an alternative use for his bird detecting radar technology and saved the business. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Drum is a magazine and events business for the marketing industry. It was well regarded but not particularly profitable, and Diane Young its chief executive found herself looking for ways to boost her flagging motivation. She tells Jonathan Moules how she turned things around. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Matt Johnson, an American entrepreneur in London, built his business on developing uses for electronically conductible paint, using open source technology. He tells Jonathan Moules what happened when he discovered his product was being cloned. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Tristram and Rebecca Mayhew started their tree-top adventure business after deciding they wanted to get out of the city. They tell Jonathan Moules about the risks they took, what they would do differently next time, and how it all worked out, with a little bit of luck and a lot of optimism. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jonathan Moules introduces a second season of his popular FT Start-up Stories podcasts, in which entrepreneurs talk candidly about their successes and failures: real stories from those who've done it, from idea to exit. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
London business schools report a growing trend among large tech companies to hire MBA graduates. Jonathan Moules talks to David Morris of London Business School about how the schools are adapting to meet the new demand for tech-based courses. Music: Podington Bear See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
France's Insead has overtaken Harvard to lead the FT's MBA business school rankings for the first time. Jonathan Moules discusses the findings with FT statistician Laurent Ortmans. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In the final episode of the series, Jonathan Moules looks at the reasons why founders decide to sell up and hears a cautionary tale from Paul Collins, chief executive of M&A advisor Equiteq See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Andrew Mullinger of Funding Circle tells Jonathan Moules why he and his co-founders opted for a rapid rate of growth and the difficulties that entailed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Maria Sipka was looking for a US business partner for her marketing company Linqia when she became pregnant and found herself in the middle of a crucial funding round within hours of giving birth. She tells Jonathan Moules her story. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Alex Cheatle's business had a near-death experience when he lost customers after the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s burst. He tells Jonathan Moules that the experience proved invaluable. Music: Kevin MacLeod - Off to Osaka See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Brompton folding bike has grown into a global brand sold in 43 counties. During the recent downturn, it raised its prices by over 65 per cent without putting a dent in sales. Finance director Lorne Vary tells Jonathan Moules why having a bold pricing strategy makes sense. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Entrepreneur Martin Spiller tells Jonathan Moules that using recruitment professionals doesn't always make sense when you are looking to hire graduates. He found a talented designer for his design start-up by chatting to a barista. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Andy Harter funded his technology start-up with an early version of crowd funding. He tells Jonathan Moules how fans of his software provided an excellent source of seed capital and market research See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Alberto Lopez tells Jonathan Moules how he developed his idea for Alva, a corporate reputation management service, in the British Library. What's really important, he says, is that you do something you know well: "Knowledge of the domain is key." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In a new FT business education podcast, you can hear Jonathan Moules in conversation with entrepreneurs on the front line, who tell stories of building a successful brand through tweets, giving birth to a child in the middle of a funding round, and rebuilding a business reputation in the wake of bankruptcy. Real stories from those who've done it, from idea to exit. This ten-part series starts on Monday October 26. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Financial Times Online MBA ranking was won again this year by Spain's IE Business School, but the top 15 was still dominated by US business schools. Jonathan Moules discusses the findings with Della Bradshaw and Wai Kwen Chan. For more news and analysis on online learning, go to our special report at www.ft.com/online-learning See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Financial Times has published its global MBA rankings for 2015. Della Bradshaw, business education editor, and Laurent Ortmans, the statistician in charge of the rankings, discuss the key trends the data reveal with Jonathan Moules, business education correspondent. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.