A British Entrepreneur in America

Bomb scares are not what they used to be!

Coming from a military background and growing up in the 70' near England's military capital Aldershot, you become used to the threat of bombings, given the situation with Northern Ireland, but I must admit, the two scares we had not so long ago at our offices in Frisco, Texas, left me a little perplexed!  There was a positive outcome though, we found our latest favorite martini bar at the Zea Woodfire Grill, just down the road, where we adjourned to after waiting for nearly two hours in the car park at our offices. It was here where the concept of Franklin-Spirko was born!

Crazy Jack has just returned from vacation and on his first day back at the office, I could sense a martini was required - myself, Jack and Alison Smith, my assistant and also a co-founder of Franklin-Spirko made our way to our 'creative haunt'.  It's amazing what a couple of martinis served with almond/blue cheese stuffed olives can do for creativity - I could literally see concepts flowing out of Crazy's head and websites being designed by the second!  I must confess, Jack has come up with an absolutely genius idea, which we have added to the previous 100 list of absolutely genius ideas - seriously, this one is up there with the best - stay tuned!

It's good to hear that my blog is getting around - I received an email from an old work colleague of mine Alistair Rynish.  Alistair was with me in my technology staffing business, dataworkforce and helped me launch dataworkforce here in Dallas, back in the late 90's.  Alistair now runs his own successful telecommunications staffing business, First Point Group and is based in London.

Time now for a little drum practice - as my drum teacher Wez, back in England used to say, "I can't teach you how to play, only how to practice"!  I replied "that's because you heard me play"!

~ Neil

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