Enterprise Week..

This week has seen thousands of events, with tens of thousands of participants all around the world (in about eighty countries) promoting entrepreneurship.

Encouraging young people to think about setting up companies, charities and to develop the products of the future, is something that I think is very important and I put a bit of time into. I was asked to be an 'Ambassador' for the Government-supported Enterprise Week, and have been giving a couple of talks every day at events all over the UK.

I started out in the Orkney Isles, in the far North of Scotland and gave a talk to all of the young people taking part in Young Entreprise up there, about 160 of them. After going to the US for a few days, I gave a talk to about 800 young people at the Leicester Square Odeon with Levi Roots, of Reggae Reggae Sauce fame. I then spoke to a couple of hundred people at the impressive Institute of Directors, then at Lampton School in West London, to the Eton College Entrepreneurship Society and then, to end it off, at New College, in Swindon.

I've taken 12 flights, skipped two nights sleep and given 7 talks in the past fortnight. I'm off to the pub..