It was great to be at this major business exhibition for startups again this year. I try and attend every year as startups for a major part of our business and its nice to meet potential customers as well as industry people under one roof and keep my finger on the pulse.

A big theme of this year's seminars seemed to be how to create an e-business. Indeed, there was one workshop titled "how to set-up your e-business in 24 hours" and another titled "how to set-up your e-business in 30 mins" - guess which one more people attended!

Two lecturs stood out for me this year, Gerald Ratner on his rise, fall and rise again and then Lord Karan Bilimoria, CEO of Cobra Beer (pictured right with me) on how he built the company into one with sales of £96m for 2006 having started off with £20k of student debt.