Do you want to makegood?

I was at makegood on Sunday.

Makegood is a festival of creators and new businesses who have been studying at the school for startups.

School for startups is a stand alone course that has been running for six years that attempts to prepare these businesses for launching their dreams.

The main event

The event had great positive energy.

There were 200 businesses displaying on the day and talks that went on throughout to do with elements of starting a business.

There were some very interesting new business ideas from a mainly young bright eyed bunch.

Among them were some beautiful craft start-ups and artistic endeavours vying for punters attention.

Pitching to the man

A panel of god like entrepreneurs held court at one 'talk' in time honoured fashion entertaining the proposals of the eager throng.

It felt like an old fashioned audience with the king.

Some of the things the panel of kings said made sense, some of it seemed grandeur laden.

I couldn't help noticing they were all white men and those attempting to gain audience spanned genders and ethnicities, not a promising vision of the power structure of the future.

I felt it was the women that presented the most interesting ideas, but I guess that's my gender bias talking.

Memento

I am now sporting some red nail varnish applied for free by nails and brows, which I have been quite impressed by as it has lasted three days of hoovering, washing-up and cooking, having only just suffered a chip.