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All aboard the App Store

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

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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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Why Facebook matters to business

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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Oratory is back in business

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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The media needs investors, but where are our tax breaks?

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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Happiness is creative talent

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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‘Dear Entrepreneur’s Diary…’ - the secret life of a CEO

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

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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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Why recycle TV chiefs? Look to SEO gurus for CEO jobs

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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Work-life balance? In the media?

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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Recession bites – but the show must go on

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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There’s no accounting for creativity

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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A week in the life of Alex Connock

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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‘Should I resign – or take over Virgin Vie At Home?’

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

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Inspired by

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Recession is when you are who you know

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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Redefining the media battlefield

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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Entrepreneur’s Diary welcomes CEO Alex Connock

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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Alex Connock to join our CEO’s diary

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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