How has it been this long again?! The last you heard of me was my frustrations in the R&D world and how many iterations we had been doing. Fast forward a few months and I am basking in a glow of pride. I have achieved something. Okay, it’s not quite what I set out to achieve yet (and we are still working away on that), but we have designed and produced a pair of shoes that I can wear.
Man in the Arena:
One of my favourite speeches is Theodore Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena speech. Brene Brown made it even more famous in her amazing Ted Talk which you can find here and that is where I first heard it.
Lusso Technology Update
It’s been a while since I did an update on what’s going on behind the scenes at LR HQ and that’s because we’ve mainly been waiting on the result of an Innovate UK application. At the end of May, we submitted an application that was the most intense application I’ve ever written. I had input from various individuals from around four companies, and we were splitting the project into three partners; the NCC, PES Performance and Lucy Rose.
I put my heart and soul into the application, was up until 11pm editing and adding bits until the deadline. I was confident I’d done the best job I could have done.
If you’re not failing, you’re not trying:
The story goes, Bill Gates showed his business plans to 1,200 people, 900 said no, 300 showed some interest and 11 made him a billionaire. That’s not even 1%. Can you imagine if he gave up after the first 100 no’s or even the first 500 no’s? That’s quite a battering – 900 people saying they don’t believe in the business you’re building and it is testament to most entrepreneurs that deal with this on a nearly daily basis.