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Subject: [OMPI users] how to SPMD on openmpi
From: ankur pachauri (ankurpachauri_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-30 05:52:15
Dear all,
I have been able to install open mpi on two independent machines having FC
10. The simple hello world programms are running fine on the independent
machines....But can any one pls help me by letting me know how to connect
the two machines and run a common program between the two....how do we a do
a lamboot -v lamhosts in case of openmpi?
How do we get the open mpi running on the two computers simultaneously and
excute a common program on the two machines.
Thanks in advance
Ankur Pachauri.
Research Scholar,
software engineering.
Department of Mathematics
Dayalbagh Educational Institute


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Straight-through UTP: Cabling and cable color coding tips for the pros, lesson 2
Straight-through UTP cables and CAT5 networks are discussed in this tip.
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This part of our series will focus on the wiring of CAT5 cable because it is the most common type of UTP cable in the world. It's flexible, easy to install and very reliable when wired properly. We'll also cover wiring classic CAT1 phone cables. It is very important that you know exactly how to wire UTP cables and understand UTP cable color coding. Cabling is the base of a solid network, and doing it correctly the first time will help you avoid hours of frustration and troubleshooting. On the other hand, if you are dealing with a poorly cabled network, this knowledge will help you to find the problem and fix it more efficiently.
Wiring UTP cables
We are now going to look at how UTP cables are wired. There are two popular wiring schemes that most pet
ople use today: the T-568A and T-568B. These differ only in which color-coded pairs are connected -- pairs 2 and 3 are reversed. Both work equally well, as long as you don't mix them. If you always use only one version, you're okay, but if you mix A and B in a cable run, you will get crossed pairs.
UTP cables are terminated with standard connectors, jacks and punchdowns. The jack/plug is often referred to as a "RJ-45," but that is really a telephone company designation for the "modular eight-pin connector" terminated with the USOC pinout used for telephones. The male connector on the end of a patch cord is called a "plug" and the receptacle on the wall outlet is a "jack."
As I've already mentioned, UTP has four twisted pairs of wires. The illustration shows the pairs and the color codes they have. As you can see, the four pairs are labeled. Pairs 2 and 3 are used for normal 10/100 Mbps networks, while pairs 1 and 4 are reserved. In Gigabit Ethernet, all four pairs are used.
The picture below shows the end of a CAT5 cable with an RJ-45 connector. These are used by all cables to connect to a hub or to your computer's network card. The picture below that shows a stripped CAT5 cable and identifies the four twisted pairs.
And don't think that UTP CAT5 cable only comes in one boring color -- those days are over! You'll find a wide range of choices today, as you can see below.
T-568A and T-568B four-pair wiring
Ethernet is generally carried in eight conductor cables with eight-pin modular plugs and jacks. The connector standard is called "RJ-45" and is just like a standard RJ-11 modular telephone connector, except it is a bit wider to carry more pins.
Note: Keep in mind that the wiring schemes we are going to talk about are all for straight-through cables only.
The eight-conductor data cable contains four pairs of wires. Each pair consists of a solid colored wire and a white wire with a stripe of the same color. The pairs are twisted together. To maintain reliability on Ethernet, you should not untwist them any more than necessary (about 1 cm). The pairs designated for 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet are orange and green. The other two pairs, brown and blue, can be used for a second Ethernet line or for phone connections.
There are two wiring standards for these cables, called "T568A" (also called "EIA") and "T568B" (also called "AT&T" and "258A"). They differ only in connection sequence -- that is, which color is on which pin, not in the definition of what electrical signal is on a particular color.
T-568A is supposed to be the standard for new installations, while T-568B is an acceptable alternative. However, most off-the-shelf data equipment and cables seem to be wired to T568B. T568B is also the AT&T standard. In fact, I have seen very few people using T568A to wire their network. It's important not to mix systems, as both you and your equipment will become hopelessly confused.
Pin number designations for T568B
Note that the odd pin numbers (1, 3, 5 and 7) are always the white with a stripe of color. The wires connect to RJ-45 eight-pin connectors as shown below:
Here we break out the color codes for T568B:
Pin 1: white/orange (pair 2) TxData +
Pin 2: orange (pair 2) TxData -
Pin 3: white/green (pair 3) RecvData+
Pin 4: blue (pair 1)
Pin 5: white/blue (pair 1)
Pin 6: green (pair 3) RecvData-
Pin 7: white/brown (pair 4)
Pin 8: brown (pair 4)
The wall jack may be wired in a different sequence, because the wires are often crossed inside the jack. The jack should either come with a wiring diagram or at least designate pin numbers. Note that the blue pair is on the center pins; this pair translates to the red/green pair for ordinary telephone lines which are also in the centre pair of an RJ-11 (green=white/blue, red=blue).
Pin number designations for T568A
The T568A specification reverses the orange and green connections so that pairs 1 and 2 are on the center 4 pins, which makes it more compatible with the telephone company voice connections. (Note that in the RJ-11 plug at the top, pairs 1 and 2 are on the center 4 pins.) The illustrations show the order of colors in T568A.
Pin color codes for T568A in writing are as follows:
Pin 1: white/green (pair 3) RecvData+
Pin 2: green (pair 3) RecvData-
Pin 3: white/orange (pair 2) TxData +
Pin 4: blue (pair 1)
Pin 5: white/blue (pair 1)
Pin 6: orange (pair 2) TxData -
Pin 7: white/brown (pair 4)
Pin 8: brown (pair 4)
The diagram below shows the 568A and 568B in comparison:
Where are they used?
The most common application for a straight-through cable is a connection between a PC and a hub or switch. In this case, the PC is connected directly to the hub or switch, which will automatically cross over the cable internally, using special circuits. In the case of a CAT1 cable, which is usually found in telephone lines, only two wires are used. These do not require any special cross over since the phones connect directly to the phone socket.
The picture above shows a standard CAT5 straight-through cable used to connect a PC to a hub. You might expect the TX+ of one side to connect to the TX+ of the other side, but this is not the case. When you connect a PC to a hub, the hub will automatically x-over the cable by using its internal circuits. The result is that pin 1 from the PC (which is TX+) connects to pin 1 of the hub (which connects to RX+).This happens for the rest of the pinouts as well.
If the hub didn't cross over the pinouts using its internal circuits (this happens when you use the uplink port on the hub), then pin 1 from the PC (which is TX+) would connect to pin 1 of the hub (which would be TX+ in this case). So, no matter what we do with the hub port (uplink or normal), the signals assigned to the eight pins on the PC side of things will always remain the same. The hub's pinouts, however, will change depending whether the port is set to normal or uplink.
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03/12/2009/7:34 am, Georgetown, South Carolina
It's a new day. The sun is shining - what a difference that makes. We'll be off down the ICW shortly, making our way to Charleston. We may make it a two day trip - anchoring somewhere in the marshes on the way. We got some great fresh seafood here yesterday so we'll have a lovely feast tonight!
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02/12/2009/11:52 am, Georgetown, South Carolina
Tuesday morning, we left before 0700 to get a good start on our long journey. We left with 2 possible destinations in mind. The best one would be Charleston. But with the threat of severe weather starting anytime after midnight, we were aware that our more probable destination would be the Winyah Bay inlet and Georgetown. That's how it turned out. We didn't want to risk getting caught out there when the wind and waves picked up. It seems like we are ALWAYS trying to avoid bad weather.
We had good currents down the Cape Fear River and out past Bald Head Island. Once outside, we were disappointed to find that there was not enough north in the forecasted NE wind to allow us to sail. So - we put the sail up to help stability but the wind stayed pretty much behind us all the way. We'd move it a little this way and a little that way but it wasn't very satisfactory. While it was lovely not to have to worry about shoaling and bridges, it was frustrating to have all that big water and be in too much of a hurry (because of weather) to tack back and forth and just sail.
There was not one single other boat out there in the wide ocean except for a shrimper just outside Cape Fear. We were about 20 miles off the coast for much of the day and at one point I got up and yelled - Is anybody there? Imagine my surprise to see a dolphin leap right beside us about 20 seconds later!! Other than that one reply, I heard nothing else but the engine. (The pic shows a tiny bit of another one)
We turned in the Winyah Bay entrance channel about 8 o'clock and proceeded to follow the lights. Three intense hours later, we dropped anchor in Georgetown. The channel is well marked, and although there were some cross currents in the river, we weren't at peak ebb so it was never a problem. It seems strange, but those last 3 hours were actually the best part of the trip - we were concentrating and active and successfully navigating. It is an awfully long way in at this end, and leaving from Carolina Beach made a long start to the trip too. Stopping at Bald Head Island and jumping out from there makes more sense, but we want to go there sometime when we can stay a few days. Doing the trip from Cape Fear to Charleston also makes more sense, but I already mentioned the weather...
So here we are in Georgetown. It poured rain a couple of times during the day and we kept swinging with current and wind. While we were uneasy, it didn't seem bad enough to move to a dock although we spent too much of the day fussing and worrying. A few hours after we had decided that we were dug in well enough, the wind came up more strongly and we realized that even if we hadn't dragged, we were still stretched too far out into the channel. By this time (4:30), all the face docks were filled with motor yachts, it was starting to get dark, and we circled around looking for a spot to re-anchor. A fellow on a mooring ball called out that the vacant ball next to him was usually home to a 41 foot Beneteau and we could use it. After some debate, that's what we did so as I write this, (9pm) we are swinging around on it.
We've seen a few flashes of lightening, and there is enough wind to keep us rocking on the ball - one gust (35 knots) just knocked us sideways and the rain is lashing down. Jim has the engine on and is trying to take some of the strain off the mooring. A bad night looks to be still in the reports. I guess we'll see. We generally figure that we'd rather be on our own anchor than an unknown mooring, but Georgetown is this guy's home port so we hope he had good local knowledge.
We went for one fast walk around town to get a little exercise - first time off the boat since Beaufort on Saturday evening - but couldn't really stay ashore because of worry about wind.
On the good news side, the Ben Sawyer Bridge is not closing tomorrow, so we can make the shorter inside trip to Charleston over the next couple of days and then get the heck outside and down to Fernandina Beach.
This just doesn't feel like fun right now. It seems like we have had one incident after another - limiting weather windows over and over again, water tank, fridge, dragging anchor. I know it can always be worse - far worse - but tonight is a morose night!
01/12/2009/7:58 pm, Carolina Beach, NC
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Jim had gone to bed and I was playing around on the computer when our anchor drag alarm went off. That is not an unusual thing, since sometimes it beeps when we've swung with the current or wind. I went out to look and we had indeed swung and the wind had some up quite strongly, but everything seemed OK so I just hit the "clear" button. Back down below, I finished what I was doing and then before I went to bed, I looked out the window before I reprogrammed the alarm. To MY alarm, I saw pilings where there shouldn't be any! I dashed up the companionway steps - yelling to Jim that we had dragged. As I turned on the engine and got the boat in gear to keep us off the dock that was less than a boat length away, he scrambled out of bed, hit the windlass switch and deck lights and ran forward to haul up the anchor - shouting as he went by that the boat next to us was also moving. So - here we were - two boats circling in the dark, windy night, trying to find new places to settle down again.
There is nothing any fun about dragging anchor and almost crashing our vacation home/ investment, but it sure gets the adrenaline moving and induces huge gratitude that we were saved yet again. Two good things are that we had no damage done, and we worked in perfect symmetry. I felt sorry about the other boat, who had come into that anchorage on our advice. They also found a new spot for the night and had no damage, but I'll bet that's the last time they listen to us!!
We figure that the wind came up so strongly after we swung that instead of the anchor resetting itself, it came loose. We set the alarm to the tiniest amount of movement just in case and took turns getting up all the rest of the night to check on it. Needless to say, neither of us got much rest.
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Enchanting Rhine Land and River Cruise
Netherlands, Switzerland, France, and Germany
April 6 - April 19, 2015
The Travel Experience Club's first land/cruise will take place April 6 - April 19th, 2015. We will start in Amsterdam two days before the cruise where we will provide an orientation tour and a visit to see the windmills. The seven night cruise will depart from Amsterdam and will end in Basil, Switzerland. On board, all meals will be included with wine at dinner. Tours off the river cruise are also included in the price. When the cruise ends, we will spend three nights in beautiful Lucerne, where there will be time to explore and enjoy the area. The Travel Experience Club will also include a cable car trip up Mt. Pilatus.
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London and Paris
May 6 - May 16, 2015
Experience the best of London and Paris in the spring. This trip will include four nights in London and five nights in Paris. Included will be round trip flights, hotels, a tour introduction to each city with a local guide, the Chunnel high speed train from London to Paris, all breakfasts, and one dinner in London at a local restaurant. All transfers in London and Paris are also included, along with taxes and tips for guides. In London, we will also include visits to the Tower of London and London Eye, along with a three day unlimited underground pass. In Paris, we will include an orientation tour with local guide, a five day Metro Pass and a three day unlimited museum visit pass.
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U.S. National Parks
Late August, 2015
The Travel Experience Club will focus on about ten of the most beautiful, awe-inspiring national parks and monuments in the western U.S.A. The tour includes eleven night hotel accommodations, motor-coach transportation, services of a expert guide, eleven breakfasts, six dinners, entrance to the national parks, a scenic float trip on the Snake River, Navajo guided tour of Monument Valley, dinner cruise on Lake Powell, western BBQ dinner & show, tips for bellmen and included meals, and an end of tour gratuity for guide and driver. The Travel Experience Club will also be offering an optional Las Vegas extension for those who might be interested.
The Wonder of Provence, France
River Cruise and Land Tour
October, 2015
Our trip begins in Lyon, France, where we will spend two days in France's second largest city before the cruise starts. Lyon is the gastronomic capital of the world and has been the home of some of the world's greatest restaurants and chiefs. The all inclusive AMA Waterways cruise will takes us from Lyon to Arles with stops along the way. The Travel Experience Club will include a four night stay at one hotel in a city in Provence after the cruise. We will visit the inland towns and cities that the cruise ship cannot visit. We must reserve space for the river cruise immediately, so please contact us for more details and to secure your space.
All Travel Experience Club trips include R/T air from New York, four star or good tourist class hotels, tours and admissions, and even tips for drivers and guides. Taxes and government fees are included at the time of printing. As always, we strive to offer the greatest value possible on all of our trips.
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When buying sheet silver there are several things to think about. This post does not focus on the different gauges and why you should buy them. It will focus on how and where to buy sheet silver. First remember what kind of sheet you want to buy. Do you want to buy sterling silver sheet, fine silver sheet or reticulated silver for example. For buying any type of silver the following tips can be useful.
Local Vendors
For most beginners you will be buying your silver sheet directly from the studio where your taking classes or a local art shop. This isn't so bad to start with. You can actually hold the sheet before you understand the gauges and types well. At a studio the person selling the stuff to you will most likely be a teacher and will be able to answer your questions. At an art shop this might be true also. Another advantage is art shops will have sales and you can save money on buying discounted sheer.
The downside is art shops and studios rarely adjust their prices for the change in the value of silver. Silver is a commodity and its value changes daily. Most shops and studios will adjust the price when new silver comes in and some will change it if there is a big value change. This is a big gamble because they could have bought it when it was low or high and you have no idea.
Rio Grande Catalog
Another option is buying your sheet silver from Rio Grande Catalog, Rio for short. Rio adjusts the value of there silver daily depending on the price of silver on the stock market. Basically what Rio charges you is the value of the silver per gram then a fabrication charge. The fabrication charge is lowered by the amount of silver you order. A downside of buying from Rio is that they have minimum purchase amounts and charge for additional cuts. Another downside is that it takes time to reach you.
If you plan to buy from Rio there are a few things you can do to save money. First watch the value of silver for a couple of weeks. This can easily be checked on the Rio homepage. If silver looks like it is going down wait till it gets lower, if silver looks like it is going up buy it right away. The second tip is doing a large order of silver all at once, including buying your silver wire and bezel. Rio gives the fabrication discount on the total amount of silver ordered not just a particular gauge or type.
Therefore if your buy silver from Rio watch the price of silver for fluctuation. Then doing one big order a year will save on fabrication charge. This way you can save the most money and get what you want. Then use your studio or local art store to buy things you need on a short notice.
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I am 6 feet tall. What size frame fits me?
I am currently looking to buy a frame so I want to buy one that fits properly.
I am 6 feet tall. What size frame fits me?
I am currently looking to buy a frame so I want to buy one that fits properly.
May You Live in Winds of Gentle Peace
depends on what your inseam reach and trunk measurements are, as well as what kind of bike you are looking at?
Mountain. road, comfrort?
Hit a Bike shop and ask what they have that will fit you...
Good luck!!
I am 6 feet with a clothing inseam of 29". I know folks who are the same height with a clothing inseam of 34" or more. We would not take the same size frame. Also, it is more critical with a road bike than with a mtn bike.Originally posted by veganheart
I am 6 feet tall. What size frame fits me?
I am currently looking to buy a frame so I want to buy one that fits properly.
Get thee to a good LBS (Local Bike Shop) and let them fit you for a bike of the style you would like to ride. Also, there are some good bike fit articles at:
Last edited by DnvrFox; 04-08-03 at 07:58 PM.
29"!!?? wow you're a regular robert e lee, eh?
The only true knowledge is knowing that you know nothing - Socrates
Back on the bike!!
You can keep the snide comments to yourself, thanks!!Originally posted by deliriou5
29"!!?? wow you're a regular robert e lee, eh?
Thanks for your responses so far.
My wife helped measure my inseam and we figured it to be around 31 cm. But that number seems low as a chart I looked at on one website said that a person who is 6 feet would have an inseam of 34cm and the frame size should be 58 to 59 cm. It seems so confusing. I am finding people have different opinions. A person who works in a bike shop and is in my university class says that I should have a 19" or 50cm frame, but that seems too small.
This frame I am looking for will be a road frame.
May You Live in Winds of Gentle Peace
By the way, the people at my local bike shop aren't all that friendly. They give me the feeling that, because i am not going to buy a bike there, they are hesistant to give me service. Thus, I am reluctant to ask them to size me for a bike.
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a size 50 is definitely too small for you. i am a female 5'7, and i ride a 52.
sounds to me like you would be a 58 or 59. if you are in between sizes, take the smaller of the two because you can make more adjustments to it.
just my .02
yeah you shouldn't ask them to size you for a bike if you don't intend on buying. no wonder they're being unfriendly! they'll be your best friend if you buy a bike from them!
sounds like you're trying to do what i did and shopping for a used bike online... you need to be extra careful about sizing... i will discuss this below.
go to http://www.wrenchscience.com for a good geometry calculator. and please remember that not all 50cm frames will fit you the same. I had to go through 2 wrong-sized bikes before settling on my current one.... a specialized 54, 52, and now i'm on my current love, a 50 cm specialized allez comp.
look closesly at geometry specs... most specifically, top tube length, standover clearance, and seat tube length, in that order.
The only true knowledge is knowing that you know nothing - Socrates
Back on the bike!!
I can speak about the commuter flavor of bike (but know nothing about the racing flavor). You should have a little bit of clearance when your feet are on the ground and you straddle the frame. The shoes you normally wear when you bike might play a small role in the frame size you chose. I wear street shoes when I bike, so when I pick out my frame size, I always wear street shoes. After buying a handful of bikes in the last eight years, I now know what my frame size is ... or least where to start looking. One more thing, the size of the tire might play a role as well, but a salesman should get you in the 'neighborhood'.
My inseam is 33" and I've bought bikes with a frame size of 59cm (a bit too big) and 57cm (almost perfect). I would like to have a 56cm frame, but the brand I buy (Batavus), doesn't make that frame size in the models I want to buy.
The next smaller size in the model I bought was 53cm and while vertically that felt OK (with the saddle properly adjusted), the handelbars were much to close ... things were out of proportion; I would have looked like an adult riding my young son's bike.
After you zero in on the frame size, adjust the saddle so your legs are almost , but not quite straight, when you pedal. You should have a break in your leg. I don't know what the 'degree' measurement is, but a good bike saleman should get you in the ballpark settings. I always play around with the handlebars and saddle settings until things seem right. If the saddle setting is too high you can inflame your Achilles tendon. I once biked a long distance when my sadlle was too high and it was very cold outside. I didn't have my allen wrench with me and just persevered; I knew the saddle was too high, but I never thought I'd hurt myself. Well, I wound up with extra fluid in my Achilles tendon ... it made a crunchy sound when I moved and I was out of action for a while. I learned a lesson.
I hope this has been of some help and if I've given you bad advice, I hope someone points that out. I am not an expert ... I've just bought a few bikes over the years and asked a lot of questions in the process.
thanks for all your input davehorne. i know you spent a long typing all that... unless you are a really fast typist! : )
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I am 6'1" and have a 31" inseam. My LBS guessed my frame size is 58 cm, but he didn't actually measure it. How do you measure frame size?
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Measuring frame size --- I've watched the owner of my local store measure frame sizes and it is from the middle of the pedal crank shaft to the top of the frame where you plug in the saddle.
I hope I'm using the correct terms.
A 50cm frame for a person 6' tall???? What is that guy smoking??? 50cm frames are made for people just taller than a child.
Je vais à vélo, donc je suis!
I am offended by that, D*Alex...Originally posted by D*Alex
A 50cm frame for a person 6' tall???? What is that guy smoking??? 50cm frames are made for people just taller than a child.
I'm 5'7" (much taller than a child, I think) and I ride a 50 cm frame...
But then again, offending is your forte, isn't it...
The only true knowledge is knowing that you know nothing - Socrates
Back on the bike!!
I think we might need to remeasure everything. I'm 5'9" and my inseam is 33". I'm of average height and build.
When I buy Levis, (we'll leave my waist out this), I usually buy a 33" length. On occasion a 32" length might work.
If your inseam is really 29" your legs _are_ shorter than what most of us expect from someone who is 6' tall. My current 'commuter' bike has a 57cm frame (I'm 5'9" with a 33" inseam). From what I can fathom, you probably have a difficult time buying clothes off the rack. (I also did in the US, but European sizes are more forgiving.)
If I were you, I would take a look at a 56cm or 57cm frame and work downward from there. I wrote earlier in this thread a 'ballpark' method of trying frames ... straddle a frame with your feet on the floor and your jewels with a bit of clearance above the frame.
Since your measurements are a bit out of the 'norm', you'll really going to have to experiment and have someone knowledgeable help you. You're not going to get a concrete answer here with what you've given us; you gotta go to a store and actually ride some bikes.
I'm fortunate that my bike guy actually rides bikes and knows his stuff. He knows my size even if I forget. His insights are good. I would _not_ buy a bike through the mail just to save a few bucks. If _I_ were not happy with my bike, I know my dealer would take it back and order the correct frame size for me ... that's a fact.
This is a difference in culture ... in Europe (well, at least in the Netherlands), you will be taken seriously and they will bend over backwards to make sure you have the right bike. Every village has at least one bike store.
FWIW, my local guy would have ordered a bike for me to try _even_ if I decided that the frame size was not correct for me; he would have sold it to someone else eventually.
Keep us posted with your choice. DH
You ride a 50cm (~19") road bike frame??? Please, post a pic-this I gotta see...I'm 5'7" (much taller than a child, I think) and I ride a 50 cm frame...
Je vais à vélo, donc je suis!
just to let you know davehorne, the person who is 6 feet with 29 inseam is not me (ie the one orignally started this thread. he / she is just a nice person, like yourself, trying to give me some good advice.
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i will be glad to do so! i still don't have a pic of me ever riding a bike, but i do have a digicam... i'll have a friend take the picOriginally posted by D*Alex
You ride a 50cm (~19") road bike frame??? Please, post a pic-this I gotta see...
BTW - specialized frames run big... my 50cm bike actually has a 30.5" standover clearance!!
The only true knowledge is knowing that you know nothing - Socrates
Back on the bike!!
And why must we remeasure everything?I think we might need to remeasure everything. I'm 5'9" and my inseam is 33". I'm of average height and build.
You don't believe or trust the rest of us? You have some level of omnipotent knowledge about our measurements that we or others don't have?
Folks who seem to think they are smarter than the rest of us really get old.
I apologize for having written that. I also misunderstood who was writing what. My intent was to be helpful and I see that I wasn't. Sorry.Originally posted by DnvrFox
And why must we remeasure everything?
You don't believe or trust the rest of us? You have some level of omnipotent knowledge about our measurements that we or others don't have?
Folks who seem to think they are smarter than the rest of us really get old.
I'm assuming they measur ctr. of BB to the top of the seat tube? Most bikes traditionally were measured ctr. to ctr.
Je vais à vélo, donc je suis!
After I posted how my local bike guy measures frames, I went and measured my bike. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but my bike measures exactly 57 cm (as it should) from the middle of the pedal crank to the top of the seat post (or whatever these things are called).Originally posted by D*Alex
I'm assuming they measur ctr. of BB to the top of the seat tube? Most bikes traditionally were measured ctr. to ctr.
well, each frame is a little different b/c of the measuring to the seat post which can vary by design... and frame size does not directly take into account frame length
i'm 6'1" with a relatively long upper body. i ride a 58cm road bike which fits me pretty well, but it's a tad short in length (i decided that was ok and is a little more "sporty")
basically, use the frame size designation as a basis, in your case, sounds like about a 57... and then look at bikes from 56 to 57cm and try then out. stand over the bike straddling the top tube and lift the bike up. you should be able to lift it about 2" off the ground.
next you need to look at the LENGTH of the bike as this varies between different bike makers and frames... and although generally bikes get longer as the frame sizes get longer, you can have 2 frames of the same size (say 57cm) that vary by a good inch or more in length. i've seen some descriptions that try to say based on your trunk and arm length how much distance from seat post to headseat, but it's really better done by feel... so it's best to test ride the bike before you buy it.
for me, i really wanted a LeMond as they are known for being long and they fit me really nice, but i found a smoking deal on a Raleigh R700 that was only a little short and i have been fine with it.
if you're buying on the internet, i guess try and find a reference bike that fits you, measure it and then find as many of the measurements on the frame/bike you want to buy (distance from seatpost to headset, downtube angle, fork rake angle, stem length, etc)
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Do you currently ride a bike? Usually, you base your next bike size on what you are currently riding, +- any differences you want to make.
If you currently dont ride, then it is a lot more difficult. A ballpark figure is to leave x" of clearance between your 'nads and the top tube, where x varies with the use (road, MTB), and style (horizontal top tube, sloping/compact top tube).
A simple measurement of frame "size" is from the bottom bracket to some point on the top tube. The BB itself can vary in hight off the ground. The same "size" frame may vary by up to 2" in its standover clearance.
Given adaquate standover clearance, then the really important dimension is the length of the frame, which affects your reach. This depends on your body proportions and on your riding style, ie how low and aerodynamic or upright and comfortable YOU like to ride.


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Who in the world is Pascal Gielen?
Filed under: Enterprise, Uncategorized
Have you ever heard of Pascal Gielen?
I hadn't before I was given one of his short books, Creativity and other Fundamentalisms.
It's as dense as the title suggests, but I stuck with it and found a few decent gems of wisdom. Essentially he argues that society has developed an unhealthy fetish for individual entrepreneurship, which in his view encapsulates the way that work has become more 'nomadic' and 'rootless'. Increasing numbers of us, Gielen agues, have been set adrift on our own rubber dinghies, while the cruise ships of the welfare state lie idle, and the yachts of the super wealthy glide by (his metaphor, not mine). Worse, we're all complicit in this neoliberal agenda, having been convinced to sacrifice our rights in the futile pursuit of self-realisation – something Gielen calls 'self-precarisation'.
So, not exactly light-hearted. But still worth a read if you're interested in thought-provoking commentary on the future of work, education and business.
Here are a few of those gems I mentioned:
On professionalisation and the development of generic skills:
We should not be fooled by these loud calls for professionalisation…. The aim of all this is to deliver 'broadly employable' or 'polyavent' students, multi-purpose individuals who follow just one important imperative: that of adaptation or – indeed – anticipation… The point is by 'tuning into' the market, schools lose all performativity (and authority) to make their own mark and therefore no longer provide a spine to those who wish to stand up straight and undertake some daring act.
New data on entrepreneurship: what are the key trends?
Filed under: Enterprise
Last month saw the release of the latest data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a major annual international survey of entrepreneurial behaviours and attitudes. What makes this dataset so powerful is the size of the sample (2,000+ people respond in the UK alone) and the fact that the data goes back over 10 years. It also has an extensive set of questions that touch on feelings and attitudes not covered elsewhere. So it's worth a gander if you're interested in enterprise, small business and other things of that ilk.
Here are three of the biggest insights from the 2013 results to be aware of:
#1 The overall level of entrepreneurial activity has dipped (for now)
The graph below shows the numbers of adults engaged in what is called 'early-stage entrepreneurial activity' (in other words, the number of start-ups). As you can see, the proportion of people in the process of starting a business fell quite sharply between 2012 and 2013, from around 10 per cent to just over 7 per cent.
Similar falls also occurred in other measures of entrepreneurial activity. For instance, the number of people who say they intend to start a business in the next three years fell by around a third. Yet one swallow doesn't make a summer, and the 2013 figure remains above that seen in the early 2000s. Indeed, statistics from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) suggest that self-employment has continued to increase in the last year (and that the growth has even sped up).
It's also worth noting that measures of 'opportunity' entrepreneurship (entrepreneurs who want to be in business) fell just as much as 'necessity' entrepreneurship (entrepreneurs who do not want to be in business). If the fall in entrepreneurial activity was mainly down to reluctant entrepreneurs returning to a typical job, we would have expected necessity entrepreneurship to have taken most of the hit.
#2 But new types of entrepreneurs are emerging
The average self-employed person is male and between the ages of 35-49. But that stereotype is being chipped away as several other demographic groups become more prominent. We know there has been a dip in entrepreneurial activity all round (see above), but three groups in particular appear to be better at weathering the storm.
The first is women. The graph below shows that while both male and female start-up rates have fallen since 2012, the latter has proven much more resilient. This is also borne out in data from the Labour Force Survey, which shows that the number of women in self-employment has increased by over 40 per cent since 2000, compared to 20 percent for men.
The second is older people. The graph below shows the proportion of 50-64 year olds who are engaged in any kind of entrepreneurial activity (the black arrow shows TEA i.e. those in the early stage of starting a business). As you can see, there has been a substantial increase in the last few years alone. I'm afraid I don't have data for the over 65s, but the LFS statistics show a huge increase in self-employment among those in their retirement age.
The third group is young people. According to GEM, the number of young people in the early stages of starting a business has nearly doubled, moving from around 5 per cent in 2010 to 9.5 per cent last year.
#3 The number of high-growth businesses is atrophying
Ask any expert who knows something about entrepreneurship and they will say that the UK doesn't have a shortage of start-ups. Rather, it has a shortage of scale-ups. The below table shows the number of firms in comparable countries that expect to create a large amount of jobs over the next 3 years. What is striking is that the UK has gone from the country with the highest proportion of high job expectation-firms to the country with the lowest. Whereas a quarter of our firms were once major job creators, now it is close to 15 per cent.
I hope that's some food for thought. You should be able to find the full results of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey on their website in the coming weeks. Thanks to Mark Hart of Aston University and his team for allowing us prior access to the data.
P.s. Keep an eye on this blog for the results of our own RSA/Etsy survey on microbusinesses, conducted in partnership with Populus.
The RSA and Etsy are exploring similar themes in a new project, The Power of Small. Click here to find out more.
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Ruthless, Vocal and Human: Three key tenets for any future business support
Filed under: Enterprise
If the test of a meaningful policy is that it can be argued against, what to make of yesterday's announcement by the Prime Minister to cut more red tape for small businesses?
This was one of several new measures designed to boost growth ambitions among the self-employed. Less than a fifth of SME owners have a substantive ambition to grow, and around a third have experienced more or less static growth over the last 3 years. The problem is even more pronounced among one-man bands. Recent research from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) showed that only 5 per cent of sole traders increased staff levels over the 6 year period from 2007 to 2013.
Clearly no one disputes the challenge. It's just the way we've dealt with it over the years that raises questions. The idea that cutting more red tape will stimulate recruitment is fanciful: not one business owner we've spoken to over the past few years has raised the issue of regulation as a fundamental barrier to growth.
Nor has their been much appetite for wage subsidises – another state-backed initiative. Take the holiday in National Insurance Contributions that was launched late in 2012. In theory it should have been an attractive proposition for small businesses: recruit new staff and you won't need to pay anything towards their NI. Yet the take up was very low. The same thing happened to the Youth Contract, which was intended to make it more viable to employ young people by heavily subsidising their wages.
So yesterday's announcement is not a one-off. Rather it is symptomatic of a wider problem with the enterprise support ecosystem in the UK. Time and again we see state and non-state initiatives that look great on paper – and which make for a decent sound bite – but fail to live up to the hype.
This is not just bad for the businesses who are the intended recipients; it's also bad for taxpayers (whose money could have been spent elsewhere) and bad for job seekers (who may have found work through a more intelligently designed scheme). But what to do about it?
One starting point is to make sure future business support efforts adhere to three fundamental tenets:
Be ruthless
The amount of support available to small businesses has proliferated in recent years. But this has caused issues in itself, with the duplication of services being a particular challenge. On top of this there is little common knowledge of what actually works in stimulating business start-up and growth.
We need to adopt the principles of the Lean Startup model, which involves rapidly testing and evaluating prototype services on a small-scale before rolling out more widely. A good example is the new Growth Vouchers scheme that was launched yesterday on the basis of a randomised control trial.
Yet this has to be as much about changing culture as process. In short, the support ecosystem needs to be more ruthless, pointing out what doesn't work and acting to terminate failing initiatives – even if it means upsetting the status quo. It's what happens every day in other spheres such as education and employment services, so why shouldn't it happen in the world of business support?
Be vocal
The only thing worse than a poor policy is an excellent one that nobody knows about. The latest RBS Enterprise Tracker survey found that 36 per cent of respondents hadn't heard of a single one of the 19 initiatives listed. The same problem stands for the government's efforts to boost lending to SMEs, which were criticised earlier this month by a Parliamentary committee because so few businesses were made aware of them.
So we need to get much better at drawing the attention of business owners towards what's already available, even if that means spending a decent proportion of the budget on marketing (as Lord Young argued in his most recent review on microbusiness growth). The Prince's Trust and StartUp Loans lead the way here, with adverts and events that are reaching out beyond the usual suspects to unconventional audiences.
Be human
Finance and deregulation are the conventional mechanisms used to stimulate business growth. However we know from the experience of the Youth Contract and National Insurance holidays that these clunky efforts are not enough on their own to influence behaviour.
Part of the reason is that many of the barriers facing business owners are psychological in nature. A research study recently commissioned by BIS found that one of key impediments to growth among the self-employed was a lack of 'vision', with sole traders regularly overestimating the costs of growing their business and taking on staff. Alongside this, many are reluctant to step into the unknown or fear letting go of the reins.
No amount of red tape bonfires or extra financial assistance is going to overcome such hurdles. Rather we need to see more initiatives that recognise business owners as humans, and which go with the grain of their frailties and quirks. This is something the RSA hopes to look at in the coming months.
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Why openness is the next frontier for business strategy
Filed under: Enterprise
This is a guest blog from Damian Kimmelman. Damian is founder of DueDil, a London-based technology business that is the largest source of private company information in the UK and Ireland. DueDil was included in Wired magazine's ten hottest startups in London in October 2013.
The global financial crisis was, says the American forecaster and author of The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver, "a catastrophic failure of prediction". Governments, ratings agencies, investors all possessed the information that could have triggered safety checks and policy changes. They failed, however, to apply judgment to the data. All assumed that the information was trustworthy or were, to borrow Margaret Heffernan's iconic phrase, "wilfully blind" to the evidence that it wasn't.
As we enter a post-crisis era, a new generation of entrepreneurs is re-examining assumptions around transparency and trust. They're putting openness at the centre of strategy; they're bringing the power of relationship back into business; they're providing the full information that enables proper risk-pricing. They are – potentially – ushering in an age of true predictability.
For Joel Gascoigne, founder of the social media-sharing start-up Buffer, transparency is his "default" position. Anything that can be shared in the business, is shared. "We have complete compensation transparency and every team member knows each others' salary and equity stake through stock options," says Joel. "We go all the way – we share whether we're fundraising, we share when we have acquisition interest." The firm even opens up its bank balances and latest revenue numbers.
Over at the mobile payments firm Stripe, founder Greg Brockman is pioneering an "open email" culture. Initially, "the motivation for having all email be internally public and searchable was simply to make us more efficient. If everyone automatically knew what was happening, we needed fewer meetings, and our coordination was more fluid and more painless if we could all keep up with the stream." And as Stripe has grown, the experiment has moved on. Today, says Brockman, it's "about both efficiency and philosophy."
He's right: transparency is much more than a start-up gimmick. Really strong business cultures are transparent. Where there's transparency, there's trust. And, most important, there's predictability. Counter-parties can take safer, more calculated decisions. Market inefficiencies reduce. On a wider scale, open information creates markets and builds prosperity.
Withholding information, on the other hand, prevents markets from developing. Just look at the lack of transparency in the financial services sector to see what damage opacity can wreak. Humans are built for sharing. In the natural kingdom, it's our competitive advantage. By sharing and communicating, we build communities and prosperity.
Before the Industrial Revolution, towns and villages were self-sustaining ecosystems. With the arrival of roads and canals, talent started to flow between them. With this came information, insight and industry. In 1989, Tim Berners Lee, frustrated by scientists' inability to transfer knowledge easily between one another, proposed an open protocol for communicating between computers. This became the information superhighway.
Companies such as Google, Facebook and LinkedIn were born to share the ever-greater volumes of information that flowed through it. It was living proof of Jean Jacques Rousseau's theory: when we share, we are – collectively and individually – the better for it. These giants of the internet age debunked a common myth: that somehow by withholding information we gain an edge over others. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Right now, only public companies truly benefit from the open exchange of information. As a result, the UK has an efficient, liquid Stock Exchange that's the envy of the world. By giving the same transparency and, thus, visibility to privately owned small and medium-sized companies, we could unlock significant economic potential.
According to the disruptive SME finance business Asset Match, the 10,000 private UK companies with £20m-plus revenues have an embedded (ie, illiquid and undiscovered) shareholder value of £300bn. If they had something of the openness and findability of our quoted companies, we're in serious national uplift territory. "Unlocking 10% of that figure," Asset Match's co-founder Ian Baillie has said, "is the equivalent of a small quantitative easing".
In my view, Britain should aspire to be the world's most transparent economy. And we should start by opening the data about our privately owned businesses. After all, "private" companies were never meant to be anonymous companies.
The Seven-ish Ingredients of the Microbusiness Boom
Filed under: Enterprise
The UK's microbusiness community has grown enormously in recent years. At last count there were over 4.8 million of these small firms, up 500,000 since 2010 and nearly a 6 fold increase on the number we had in the early 70s.
But what's driven this growth? And perhaps more importantly, will it last?
The most popular theory holds that the entrepreneurial boom has come about largely as a result of the recession. Simply put, in the absence of conventional jobs people have been forced to create their own. This is particularly true for the many highly skilled workers faced with low skilled job opportunities, whose only opportunity to utilise their full talents is by starting a business.
Yet the crash can't be the only explanation. First, it discounts the long-term factors (microbusinesses have been growing in number since way before the economic downturn). And second – as we've heard time and again within our own research – it ignores the many people who are starting a business for largely positive reasons (this is the necessity vs. opportunity / push vs. pull debate).
Based on our conversations with microbusiness owners and experts in the field, we've identified a number of other drivers that are equally if not more important in explaining this complex phenomenon – some pernicious and some more benign…
The rise of the niche – We now live in a world where quality, quantity and distribution is guaranteed for the vast majority of goods. In short, scarcity has been replaced by abundance. The result is that consumers are beginning to demand more authentic products and services that make them 'feel' something. This in turn has given rise to more niche producers, many of whom will be microbusinesses more able to satisfy the need for authenticity. See here for more information about this trend.
Skeleton businesses – In a bid to cut costs and spread risks, many large organisations have chosen to dispense with their middle management and instead use contractors and freelancers. On top of the this, the jobs that remain have become increasingly precarious. Pensions, bonuses, sick leave, maternity pay – all these pillars of the workplace have taken a hit, particularly in the public sector. The implication is that starting your own business (with all the caveats this entails) has become far more appealing. As one person said to me, "if you're going to work till you drop, you may as well enjoy what you're doing."
Changing demographics – Our society is ageing. So much so that by 2050 the number of people over the age of 80 is expected to triple to 8 million. In the absence of a strong state, it is highly likely that families will pick up the majority of caring responsibilities for their relatives, no doubt causing strains on their working lives. For many, the only means of squaring their duties with their desire to work will be by setting up in self-employment. The same goes for caring responsibilities at the other end of the age spectrum, with many parents only able to look after their young children if they opt for the more flexible option of self-employment – something that may become more commonplace as a result of our current baby boom.
Long term decline in living standards – It is no secret that living standards are atrophying. According to the Resolution Foundation, the income of typical households is set to be 15 per cent lower in 2020 than in 2008; the result of a perfect storm of falling real wages and rising household expenses. Rather than cut back on spending, many people appear to be topping up their incomes by starting part-time businesses, often on top-up of a full-time job. According to the market analysts Keynote, around 1.8 million people now have 'moonlighting' businesses. And it's worth recognising that the purpose of these ventures is not only to meet basic needs, but actually to raise living standards to the level experienced in the pre-crash days. See here for more information about this trend.
New notions of the good life – One of the silver linings of the economic crash is that it has prompted many people to reassess what it is they really want from life. With trust in Westminster, Fleet Street and Big Business at an all-time low, many sense that it is up to them to find their own meaning and purpose. A large number of the fledgling microbusiness owners we met spoke of their desire for more 'control' in what they do. Simply put, they don't want to be subservient to those they no longer trust. Indeed, there's a real sense that people want to be the authors of their own lives, and that the best way of achieving this is often through the vehicle of a business. See here for more information about this trend.
Technology lowering the barriers to entry – It goes without saying that technology lies behind a great deal of the major social and economic transformations – and the boom in entrepreneurship is no exception. Websites like ebay, Etsy, Skype, wordpress and all the other social media tools are radically lowering the barriers to entry. All that most budding entrepreneurs need now is a few hundred pounds, a laptop and a decent internet connection (at least to begin with). This may not be 'creating' entrepreneurship as such, but it is certainly releasing a whole lot of pent up entrepreneurialism that once lied latent in our economy. Nor has the impact of technology fully played out, of course. The growth of 3D printing and 'sharing economy' platforms like Airbnb are just two of the innovations that are set to make entrepreneurs out of many more of us.
The RSA and Etsy are exploring similar themes in a new project, The Power of Small. Click here to find out more.
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Finding Saviour in a Startup
Filed under: Enterprise
Where are we now, and where are we going? Twenty or fifteen years ago we could rely on mainstream institutions to answer these questions for us. Westminster, Fleet Street, Big Business – they told us what the good life really meant, and how to live it. Yet fast forward to 2013 and these are no longer the bedrocks of society; their legitimacy sapping in the wake of perpetual scandals, their decline accelerated by the worst economic crash in a century.
In response we have witnessed the emergence of global movements such as Occupy, whose worldwide protests have brought into sharp relief the anger of those who feel dispossessed and let down by the system – one they'd been led to believe would work for them. These collectives have become a voice for the young, but also the disabled, the unemployed and many others at the margins of society. Russell Brand's recent appearances are just the latest in this long line of protest commentary, saying in public what many are thinking in private.
A common mistake would be to assume that this is where the backlash stops. In reality, it's just the sharp end of a very thick wedge. A less obvious but arguably more powerful means of expression is now sweeping the UK – namely in the form of entrepreneurship. If protest is about tearing the system down by any means, entrepreneurship is about making the existing one work to your own advantage. 100 years ago we may have done this by joining a church, 50 years ago it could have been a trade union, 20 years ago a charity – now it's by starting a business. It's the ultimate form of DIY change-making.
I'm not just talking about social enterprises here. Using business as a vehicle for improving the lives of others is of course an important trend. But what I'm really getting at are the growing numbers of people using business to take control of their own lives; to find meaning and purpose that can no longer be provided by once stalwart institutions. Indeed, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 80 per cent of all new entrepreneurs find their work meaningful, compared to 55 per cent of private sector employees. Little wonder that close to 400,000 more people have become self-employed since 2010, and that start-up rates among young people have doubled in the past few years alone.
The obvious retort? It's the great recession, stupid. When people can't find a job, they're liable to create their own with a new business – so forget the meaning mumbo-jumbo. Yet this is a superficial understanding of a deeply complex phenomenon. Yes, unemployment is a key factor, but it is by no means the sole cause. As my colleague Adam Lent argues, entrepreneurial intentions are like a spring waiting to be released, wound ever tightly by a workforce looking for a more purposeful way of living. The economic downturn was simply the trigger releasing these passions. And once pulled, I believe it will be difficult to undo.
Nor is it just the recession that is releasing pent up entrepreneurship. Another phenomenon that has occurred almost simultaneously to the economic crash is the proliferation of new technologies. WordPress, Ebay and Etsy – to name but a few – are radically reducing the costs of running a business. And by doing so they are making visible what was arguably always there. Likewise, new platforms for the 'sharing economy', such as Airbnb and Sidecar, are opening up entrepreneurship to the masses, allowing people to sell everything from a week in their spare room to a short ride in their car. No longer do you need a shop front to get going in business; just a laptop, a kitchen table and a few hundred pounds.
What we're seeing right now is entrepreneurship spreading to the margins. Forget Richard Branson and Alan Sugar. Today's entrepreneurs have a much more human story to tell. It's the long-term unemployed person starting up their own gardening firm on the New Enterprise Allowance. It's the carer creating a business from home to give them the flexibility to look after their loved one. It's the person suffering from mental illness selling items on online marketplaces to build up their confidence. It's the middle-aged freelancer spinning out a business from a corporation, the deadening bureaucracy and hierarchy of which they can no longer put up with.
Yes, all of these activities bring in money. But they also bring in a shed load of meaning, an ability to express yourself and an opportunity to make your mark. No wonder that William Deresiewicz wrote that today's "cultural hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur." No doubt the message of the 21st century is set to be a blunt one: make your own way in life, because no one is going to do it for you. But, perhaps unexpectedly, people of all shapes and sizes are proving that they can rise to the challenge.
This week the RSA and Etsy launch a new project, The Power of Small, which will explore the rise of microbusinesses in the UK. Click here to find out more.
This article was originally featured on The Huffington Post.
Why We Need a Manifesto for Youth Enterprise
Filed under: Enterprise
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post here.
Young people are flocking in droves to become entrepreneurs. In 2010, 5 per cent of those under the age of 30 were starting up in business. By 2011 this had increased to 7 per cent. And last year, we'd reached 9.5 per cent – effectively a doubling of enterprise activity in the space of just a few years (see the graph below). Quite a remarkable feat by anyone's standards.
Yet in spite of these positive signals, we know there is much more to be done to help young people realise their entrepreneurial potential. A particular problem is unfilled aspirations. Only 1 in 3 young people who say they want to start a business are actually doing so. And even if they do start, there's a strong chance they won't last very long in their venture. 1 in 3 drop out within their first year of trading, compared to 1 in 10 of those over the age of 30.
So something isn't quite right – which is why this week the RSA and RBS published A Manifesto for Youth Enterprise. We argue that more could be done to improve enterprise support across a number of areas – from increasing young people's exposure to enterprise within mainstream media, to building their entrepreneurial acumen within schools, to giving them the resources to start and grow their very first business.
A good place to start is rehumanising entrepreneurship. We know that many young people start up in business to create something meaningful, to gain more autonomy, to solve a problem – and yes, to make money as well. But too often these 'uses' of entrepreneurship are sidelined, with enterprise being promoted as an end in itself rather than a means towards a better life. We could encourage more young people to start up in business by showing how it can be used as a vehicle to achieve a variety of life's objectives.
Related to this, we should be shining a light on the 'everyday entrepreneurs' that young people can more easily relate to. A study conducted by the Carnegie Foundation last year found that when asked to visualise enterprise, nearly 60 per cent named a celebrity entrepreneur (e.g. Alan Sugar or Richard Branson) and only 5 per cent a local start up. The problem with these clichés is that they put entrepreneurship on a pedestal, making it seem out of reach for young people. One way of addressing this is by promoting the new types of entrepreneur that are increasingly commonplace – people who are collaborative, stumble into it 'accidentally', and are driven by purpose, not just profit.
Many of these are lessons for the media. But more could be done by educators, too. For example, we could expose many more young people to the notion of entrepreneurship by embedding it throughout school curricula, rather than treating it as a bolt-on course that only reaches out to the most enthusiastic and motivated students. Likewise, we should be taking enterprise education outside of the classroom by organising more 'learning by doing' activities that happen at the coalface of a business. One international study found that students who participate in mini-company initiatives likes Mycro-Tyco are 50 per cent more likely to start their own company.
But what about those who have already started up? How can we help them to achieve their full potential? A major step here is to get beyond the notion that support is just about the 'supply side' -mentoring, advice, finance, workspace and so on. We also need to stimulate the 'demand' for the products and services of young entrepreneurs. The fundamental rule that businesses actually need people to buy their products and services if they are to thrive is often forgotten in the debates about support. So we need to level the playing field, for instance by helping young start-ups to find shelf space in large retailers, or by making it easier for them to bid for central and local government contracts.
Finally, there is something to say here about the support ecosystem as a whole. Help for young entrepreneurs has proliferated in recent years – whether that be a new government finance scheme, a national mentorship initiative or local workspaces popping up across the country. But this is creating issues in itself, with the duplication of services and confusion among young people about what is on offer being particular challenges. On top of this, there is a sense that outputs have taken precedence over outcomes, with few services thoroughly evaluating their activities.
What we need therefore is a new era of youth enterprise support. This means not only making necessary improvements in the work of the media, educators, government and others – but also changing the fundamental way in which we see youth enterprise support. In short, it has to become less about numbers and more about results. Bigger has to make way for better; quality needs to take precedence over quantity; and outcomes must come before outputs.
It is only by making this shift that we can help more young people realise their entrepreneurial potential – ultimately for everyone's benefit.
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The Apprentice: good or bad for women entrepreneurs?
Filed under: Enterprise
Over-confident contestants in pin-stripe suits. Finger pointing tycoons. Birds-eye views of London skyscrapers. Authoritative music. Yes, it's The Apprentice, which sadly came to a close last week with its TV finale.
While the show usually passes me by without notice, this time round I couldn't help but pay attention. There's no doubt it received more limelight than usual, hovering around the BBC iPlayer homepage and finding its way into TV reviews.
The apparent reason? Because the show has two female contests battling it out for the £250,000 golden ticket to entrepreneur-dom.
This shouldn't be a novelty but it is. Analysis undertaken on behalf of RBS show that men are twice as likely as women to start up in business (see the graph below). Only 26 per cent of self-employed people are women, and this is despite them making up a growing proportion of the UK labour force.
Part of the reason for this under-representation stems from a lack of 'entrepreneurial capital'. The aforementioned research (which is worth a read) indicates that many women lack the skills/knowledge, financial resource and access to networks that are necessary to start a business. But perhaps an even greater cause of low start-up rates among women is the dearth of female role models in the business world.
Which brings us back to The Apprentice. Is the TV show helping or hurting efforts to boost entrepreneurship among women? In theory, having an all-female final should do wonders. The show is watched by millions of young girls thinking about what they want to do and be in later life. But my fear is that, as is so often the case, the reality is a different story.
The worry with the Apprentice is that it tends to promote a certain 'use' of entrepreneurship at the expense of others that are much more common and valuable to women. Most of those taking part in The Apprentice are in business for the fame and the fortune. In practice, however, lots of women (and men!) become entrepreneurs because it gives them, among other things, the freedom to look after children, or the space to act upon a great new idea. In fact, only half of women who are self-employed even call themselves 'business owners'.
So our concern with The Apprentice should not just relate to who is taking part (male or female) but rather why it is the participants are there in the first place.* If we want more women to start up in business, we need to begin showcasing female entrepreneurs who are able to demonstrate how entrepreneurship can be a vehicle for achieving all of life's objectives – achieving freedom, acting upon ideas and, yes, making money too.
* Witness Social Enterprise UK's call upon BBC producers to include more social entrepreneurs in their shows.
Why generating business for start-ups is the future for enterprise support
Filed under: Enterprise
What does a business need to make a profit? At the very least it requires people to buy the goods and services its selling. Whether it's a market stall holder, a clothing manufacturer or a tech start-up, there's little hope for an entrepreneur to get their venture past its very early stages without a decent number of customers.
This is the fundamental rule of business, yet too often it's lost in the flurry of discussions around how we can better support more entrepreneurs. Enterprise education, mentoring, training, workspace and finance; all of this is on the 'supply' side of the support spectrum. But what's happening on the demand side?
Earlier this week, StartUp Britain launched a new scheme with Sainsbury's that may be a forerunner to a new wave of promising demand-side support measures. PitchUp is giving start-ups in the food industry an opportunity to pitch their product to the supermarket's food buyers in the hope of winning some shelf space in stores. A pilot of a similar scheme run in partnership with John Lewis saw 400 applicants apply for product placements with the department store. There are now plans to run the same competition again this year.
Admittedly, these type of schemes currently only benefit a handful of start-ups. Only 12 businesses were awarded shelf space with John Lewis. But at this stage it's more about significance than size. Getting a few large retailers to bring fresh new businesses into their supply chains may set the ball rolling for others to do likewise. In an ideal world, we would see individual retail store managers take the onus to run their own competitions with local start-ups.
But this needs to be only one small part of a larger movement towards demand side support that actually creates business for start-ups. Local Enterprise Partnerships, for example, should do more to market the products and services of young firms in their area (as they do for large firms). Likewise, as Lord Young recently argued, central government departments could wield their £230bn procurement power more intelligently to support fledgling entrepreneurs. At a minimum, most organisations – whether public, private or third sector – should agree to faster and fairer payment terms with young businesses.
The obvious rebuke to all of this is that it would give unfair preference to one firm over another. Who's to say that young firms deserve to be given special treatment? Wouldn't giving more business to one entrepreneur deprive another of their customers, potentially sinking them entirely?
The problem with these concerns is that they view business too simplistically. For one, they wrongly assume that business is a zero sum game. More customers for one firm does not necessarily mean less for another. Moreover, if done in the right way, these kind of demand-side measures would only be there to stimulate healthy competition and to level a playing field currently dominated by numerous monopolies, as pointed out by my colleague Adam Lent.
With so few mainstream firms reporting ambitions to grow their business over the coming years, helping to bring new and dynamic firms to the fore may set in the train the kind of 'creative destruction' so desperately needed in our economy.
Social investment: inside out
Filed under: Fellowship
This is a guest blog by Servane Mouazan FRSA, founder and Director at OGUNTE, an organisation that helps women social entrepreneurs to make a positive impact on people and planet by enabling them to learn, lead and connect. They do this through: stakeholder connections and introductions; executive coaching; angels training; leadership seminars and award programmes.
RSA Catalyst supported Servane to set up Make a Wave a pre-incubator programme helping women leading social enterprises access angel investor networks and gain financial literacy through a learning and networking programme. Make a Wave was the subject of the first of a series of London Region events aiming to share the learnings of Catalyst-supported ventures with Fellows, helping to scale the work. A twitter account of the event is available at the storify of the event.
Women are not a niche market. They control nearly two-thirds of consumer spending in the world, more than the GDPs of Brazil, Russia, India and China combined (1). Statistics also show that women are more likely to buy environmentally-friendly services and products than men. Yet, despite media attention on women entrepreneurs on one side, and a growing demand for accountability and sustainable business practices on the other, women social entrepreneurs' contribution in the economy is overlooked by policymakers and there's a critical lack of academic research and therefore appropriate support. We only start now to push gendered metrics in impact investment and there is still a lot of work to be done to standardise what already exists.
Ogunte's own research among successful women social leaders globally, shows that the top three barriers to growing social ventures are:
1- "capital punishment"; sustained funding, loans at commercial rates (almost one in four)
2- lack of packaged external support; combination of partnerships, mentoring, supply-chain opportunities and technical assistance (one in five)
3- discrimination and prejudice comes third
We have identified that behind the first barrier identified as poor access to finance lies a lack of financial literacy. In the case of social entrepreneurs, there is confusion about a fast-changing landscape of impact investment and social investment, grant funding and financial products and structures available.
I found today's event a great space to be able to think. As a one woman show sometimes having that head-space to be able to be inspired and bounce of ideas helps me see where I want to go in ways that maybe by myself I wouldn't see" – Orode Faka, Infinite Arts&Media
To support this, I invited UCL professor Dr Tomas Chamorro Premuzic to introduce the Meta Profiling tool to highlight the fact that entrepreneurialism is not an occupation but rather a behaviour and that it is made of different components. We know that building a team is essential when setting up in business as a one-man band quickly shows limitations. Meta is great to measure entrepreneurial talent and abilities, to identify the creative and entrepreneurial potential of people, and also to uncover blindspots in people. As with any other profiling tool it should be used cautiously and with a help of a mentor or a coach, you can start a conversation to establish what you need to do to focus on your strengths and not dwell on what you do less well.
Make a Wave participants learned to recognise and acknowledge what their strengths were and where they needed to find complimentary skills. Participants said they've transformed their business model during the programme, and have now a different perspective on their skills and their priorities. Some understood their heart was in campaigning and that the model they had created was never meant to become a commercial one. In other cases, some participants have managed to dissociate the campaigning side of their organisation vs. the business side. That involves different sets of skills, and different focus. For instance, you can campaign for a greater awareness in the long-term damage of non-organic cosmetics whilst selling a range of pure skincare. Behind the scenes, at the start-up phase, you will still need to make a decision about the time you spend educating audiences versus the time spent on the logistics involved in building a profitable skincare business; especially if you are just a team of two with limited resources.
Gaining confidence, improving financial literacy
The groups were quite diverse with a variety of obstacles to overcome, different types of services and products to put to market. Being in the company of pre-revenue businesses, you realise how much you have learnt so far and the amount of knowledge you can share. It also forces you to explain simply what your venture is about and look at it with new eyes. One participant leading a mobile banking technology company reviewed her focus and simplified the offering.
Women are good at forecasting and budgeting. The fact is they are more realistic in their forecasts than their male counterparts. The numbers they put in their plans are what they think they are genuinely going to achieve" – Sally Goodsell, ex-CEO of The FSE Group, and creator of Incito Ventures
One of ours guest speakers, Sally Goodsell, previous CEO of The FSE Group, and creator of Incito Ventures, said "Women are good at forecasting and budgeting. The fact is that women are more realistic in their forecasts than their male counterparts. The numbers they put in their plans are what they think they are genuinely going to achieve." It's true that it doesn't always look impressive when you are on the investor's side. However all investors know that gloating forecasts are rarely achieved!
Getting the most out of board members, mentors and coaches
With investor Ida Beerhalter, participants explored ways to build and manage robust teams, how to go about managing disruptive board members, understand people's drivers to join a social venture, and how to facilitate conversations in order to keep people interested.
Participants said this pre-incubator was a unique opportunity to learn to ask relevant questions and get quick answers. One participant asked how to get investors to look at what their venture with a view to investing it. So we looked at how you could pull together and recruit members to shape an investment circle. We looked at the philanthropy model: the etiquette; how to approach people – or not; the use of intermediaries; when to start relationships with funders and potential investors; and what to disclose and what to keep for later conversations. (Our guest speaker Suzanne Biegel provided useful guidance on accessing Philanthropic Circles.)
Participants also learned about the difference between having a mentor and a mentoring project. At pre-revenue phase, it's important to draw a map of how the venture is likely to operate, and gradually test the business model. There's no point getting a mentor when you are not even sure of what the vision is going to look like. However a coach will be more useful to ask all the essential questions and guide the entrepreneur when they map their learning journey. Once all the working clusters have been established, a mentor can be picked up in specific categories. They will provide specific technical assistance, topical knowledge and relevant connections.
Next Steps
The Make a Wave pre-incubator taught us that we also needed to educate aspiring angel investors. So we created the Activist Angels development programme aimed at people with robust business skills, who want to understand the drivers behind social business. This programme encourages mentors to turn into "Investors" and helps them also understand their own attitude to risk and their decision-making skills. Finally, we are now putting a fund together to invest in the women social entrepreneurs involved in the programme.
To participate in the next Make a Wave round, get in touch with Servane Mouazan FRSA email email@example.com
To get help from RSA Catalyst for your social venture visit www.thersa.org/catalyst


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