STEVE LOWE – Game Over Cafe by Nicola Owen https://padlet.com/nicola_owen/gameover en-us 2016-11-17 11:01:04 UTC 2026-01-30 06:46:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png nicola_owen https://padlet.com/nicola_owen/gameover/wish/138351797 A]]> 2016-11-17 11:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nicola_owen/gameover/wish/138351797 nicola_owen https://padlet.com/nicola_owen/gameover/wish/138351878 Areas that you could ask Steve about……….

  • His background and qualifications.
  • His skills and knowledge of IT and gaming.
  • What other business ventures has been involved in.
  • How did he go about setting up his Game Over Business.
  • What was the first business he set up.
  • What are the pitfalls of setting up and running you own business.
  • What it is the most important element to consider when starting a new business.
  • What is the one piece of advice you would give to someone who is setting up their own business.
  • What sources of finance he would recommend accessing for a business start up.
  • The skills and qualities he looks for in staff.
  • How he markets his business
  • Machine code, developing his own programming environment to help teach people to code
  • Working as a freelance programmer
  • Selling ideas to a larger company. 
  • Using assets and services not available to normal people to help solve problems 
  • The dangers of entering into a business plan with a 'mate' 
  • Licencing and original property 
  • Franchising and selling off shares
  • Working to a brief,  the constraints and benefits of this. 
  • Picking the right people for the right job. Allocation and delegating tasks based on ability.
  •  Pricing a produce highly and only selling a few units,  as opposed to selling many units with a very low price tag.
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You task is to create a  business idea to include the following detail – you will need to present your idea to the group and Steve Lowe.]]> 2016-11-17 11:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nicola_owen/gameover/wish/138353559 nicola_owen https://padlet.com/nicola_owen/gameover/wish/138433089 2016-11-17 15:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nicola_owen/gameover/wish/138433089