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When we started auctionmystuff.org it was going to be a service for cash rich, time poor (lazy, like myself) people to sell stuff through eBay.  It wasn’t until we actually piloted it, that we found that the idea we planned just didn’t make enough money to even cover its costs. What we discovered, from meeting a charity to try and get access to their shops, was that some charities were offered really large donations of ‘stuff’, which they’d love to convert into cash.  As ou...

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The whole studio has gone mentoring crazy.  Paul is using TV shows to look at different ways of doing it.  Deborah is writing an article for design week “You don’t know what you don’t know” based on her experience of being mentored by bbh founder John Bartle.  And lots of us have spent a good proportion of the last month phone mentoring new ventures with innovative ideas around aging as part of NESTA’s Age Unlimited programme. Myself I’ve had a couple of men...

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