Did you know it’s ‘Take a Businesswoman to lunch day’ on Friday 1st June 2012? Is there a woman in business who has inspired you? Or helped you to build your business? Bring her to lunch! Vicki Stone (Vicki Stone Marketing / Ladies that network) and Jayne Graham (Space on Tap /Colleagues on Tap) were inspired [...]
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Take a Businesswoman to lunch day 1st June, Newcastle
May 14th, 2012 
Vicki Stone 
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Tags: 1st June, 2012, event, newcastle, Take a business woman to lunch, women in business 
No Comments »I’m rubbish at drawing and I can’t act or dance – Claire from Yum Yum cakes
May 11th, 2012 Vicki Stone Primarily, I make cakes. Wedding cakes, cupcakes, birthday cakes – you get the idea. It pretty much began a year or so ago, when I decided to make my very own wedding cake (don’t worry, I was getting married. I didn’t just make one in the hope that if I made a wedding cake it [...]
Free brain – my experience of mentoring by Vicki Stone
May 9th, 2012 Vicki Stone Being a marketing person, I’m always using the creative side of my brain on a regular basis for clients’ and our own business. I’d never done any ‘official’ mentoring and always thought of it as being a bit ‘namby pamby’, and I thought I couldn’t waste my precious time giving free advice. I saw [...]
Posted in news, vicki stone marketing Tags: newcastle, startup weekend, Vicki Stone mentoring No Comments »trip TAB wins Innovation award at startup Newcastle weekend by Archie Wilkinson
May 9th, 2012 Vicki Stone The start-up weekend involved turning an idea into reality. The trip TAB team was formed on Friday evening after Varun had pitched his idea in 60 seconds describing the travel tab. We then worked on the idea over the weekend late into the night on Saturday evening until 5am (to get up at 8!) in [...]
Posted in news Tags: entertainment tablet, inflight, newcastle, startup weekend, tripTAB No Comments »Startup Newcastle – vox pops and great people
April 22nd, 2012 Vicki Stone A massive congratulations to all the other fantastic teams taking part in Startup Newcastle this weekend at Newcastle University Business School. I’d never tried mentoring start-ups before but really enjoyed it and I’ve come away still buzzing and feeling so happy for all the teams involved. Brilliant ideas, great people with some real energy and inspiration. [...]
What a canny bloke and a great North East Expo Spring 2012
April 18th, 2012 Vicki Stone We had a great time exhibiting with the lovely SpaceonTap at today’s Spring North East Expo. We met lots of new people with some fantastic businesses as we promoted Space on Tap, Colleagues on Tap co-working days and a little bit of my own business (thanks Jayne). On the way out we couldn’t resist [...]
Posted in news Tags: BBC Apprentice, Jamie Lester, Jayne graham, NE Expo 2012, vicki stone No Comments »Donna swaps lab coat to promote her home region!
April 13th, 2012 Vicki Stone It was a fresh start coming back to the North East after 3 great years in Leeds working as a Medicinal Chemist in Cancer Research. Now I was eager to get a Chemist position in the North East. Whilst I was waiting for replies I wondered if I could find something else to do [...]
