Elevate - for business leaders
Friday, January 14, 2011 | Posted by: Alex Connock
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
media,
finance,
technology,
digital,
Ten Alps,
business models,
trends,
funding,
TV,
ITV,
Apple,
rights,
software,
apps,
App Store

The world is mutating into one enormous and non-hierarchical content supermarket, says the CEO of Ten Alps, Alex Connock. And that is having a transformational effect on TV business models and funding channels.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
digital,
Ten Alps,
online,
social media,
Facebook,
tool,
Coca-Cola,
Aston Martin,
Barclays Football,
Google News,
Ning,
Disney,
monopoly

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Friday, January 22, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Technology sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
media,
CEO,
Ten Alps,
Edinburgh,
skills,
Bob Geldof,
presentations,
Apple,
speech,
PowerPoint,
Steve Jobs,
speaking,
persuasion,
Royal Television Society,
Channel4,
MacTaggart Lecture,
oratory

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Thursday, December 17, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
tax,
media,
investment,
government,
Ten Alps,
AIM,
PBR,
funding,
tax relief,
EIS,
Pre-Budget Report,
advertising,
television,
policy,
Peter Mandelson,
film,
X Factor,
subsidies

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Thursday, November 26, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
awards,
Ten Alps,
talent,
Facebook,
Manchester,
television,
RTS,
creative

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
links,
media,
Ros Simmons,
diary,
VIE at home,
Ten Alps,
retail,
VIE,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

This summer, the Elevate blog followed two leading UK entrepreneurs to find out what CEO life is like, especially during a recession. For three months, Alex Connock, chief executive of Ten Alps PLC, and Ros Simmons, head of VIE at home, posted a weekly
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
Ten Alps,
Manchester United,
ITV,
Channel 4,
Real Madrid,
Audi,
Michael Mann,
SEO,
Miami Vice,
search engine optimizers,
content producers,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
media,
diary,
Ten Alps,
retirement,
football,
TV,
sport,
work-life balance,
entrepreneurs,,
Ryan Giggs,
Peter Reid,
Kevin Keegan,
famil,
exercise,
Peter Fincham,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
recession,
media,
diary,
Ten Alps,
Hollywood,
free,
internet,
content,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Monday, August 10, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
investment,
research,
diary,
Ten Alps,
Digital Britain,
content,
accounting rules,
TV production,
Creative,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Friday, July 31, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
statistics,
diary,
annual report,
Ten Alps,
Digital Britain,
Companies Act,
Bob Geldof,
Rachel Johnson,
David Steel,
business development,
Toby Young,
Michael Lyons,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: Ros Simmons,
entrepreneur,
women in business,
diary,
VIE at home,
Ten Alps,
Virgin,
management buy-out,
Entrepreneur’s Diary,
Entrepreneur’s Diary Alex Connock

Inspired by
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
diary,
Ten Alps,
Donald Trump,
Michael Jackson,
Bob Geldof,
networking,
Roger Graef,
Live Aid,
Murder Mansion,
Entrepreneur’s Diary

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Thursday, July 09, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
diary,
Ten Alps,
competition,
dbda,
niche,
Dawn Boyfield,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
diary,
Ten Alps,
Digital Britain,
Bob Geldof,
Accountancy TV,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
For 12 weeks, two CEOs – one male, one female – will be writing a behind-the-scenes of business diary for us. VIE at home’s
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector
| Tags: Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
Ros Simmons,
CEO,
diary,
VIE at home,
Ten Alps
How does the boss deal with knockbacks, big wins or the daily grind? In Grant Thornton’s Entrepreneur’s Diary series, we’ll be getting inside the heads of two chief execs. Last week, we heard from
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