Don't pass this on.

'Burned-out entrepreneur/troubleshooter maintains limp web presence.'

In place of the old 'full' site here's a radically-slimmed new one.

Who? What?

I'm gulliver (inexcusably pretentious name-change thing, that's my legal sur/whole name and the lower case 'g' is correct).

A business developer, through consults and ventures I design & build & repair businesses for myself and others.

My core skill is analysis & strategy, developed during the 30+ years I've been doing this stuff… usually at the sharp-end where the deals are done and the money changes hands.

Often unconventional, sometimes outrageously, my commercial culture leans toward Peters, Jobs, Ogilvy, Kawasaki, Godin, Cluetrain, Branson, Kalman, Smit and Roddick.

Although well-mannered, I'm usually outspoken and often extremely direct—so don't be expecting Cary Grant with a briefcase.

And I emphatically reject unspirited and ethically-compromised enterprise which simply exploits without putting anything back.

Based in England, I work internationally.

Stop. Start again.

It's no secret that I'm returning to full-time commerce after several years of part-time activity, during which things have been less than stellar.

With poor health and some even-poorer business decisions, it's been a commercially-flat and frustrating period of false starts and premature ends featuring various this-way-thatta-way direction changes to no great result.

Long-story-short is that I burned out, lost interest in business and should have stayed even further away from things than I did.

'That's life, move on…' with things now (May 2011) settled I'm back on course again, developing ventures and providing business advice & support services.

So, if you're interested and have something appropriate, tell me.

Shake some action?

Although still accepting some consulting gigs, my main focus is appropriate (interesting, challenging and rewarding) venture opportunities.

The plan is simple: use my talent, experience and arrogance to grab the mid-seven-figs I need to get out again within five years.

With several new-for-2011 projects, I'm keen to develop fresh and meaningful associations with good collaborators.

If you're interested and have appropriate expertise, let's speak. A talking point of any such conversations will be that these aren't 'dipshit little enterprises that barely cover their costs before disappearing up their rear-end just a few months later'; these are brand-class initiatives with commensurate impact and financial return.

So, if you're interested and have something appropriate, tell me.

Want some help?

Although focusing on ventures, I'm still available for consults—but it has to be good stuff because life's too short to fool around with nonsense.

If you can find me (done that, you're here), interest me (not with the usual greed & stupidity-oriented crap—I continue to reject many of the requests I receive), and afford me (it'll hurt*, but you'll get over it)… maybe we can do something together.

[*I still of course provide reduced/no-cost help to green/eco, non-profit and other stuff on which I choose to work and where I'd otherwise be unaffordable.]

My service is simple: I provide clear and honest advice which usually works, at a fair price. (And I don't accept work where I can't deliver good results.)

I charge for expertise, not flattery. This is straightforward, no-nonsense, punches-not-pulled work for grown-ups—an uncompromisingly market-focused, results-oriented examination-and-analysis appraisal in which I'll take a look at your stuff and suggest ways to dramatically improve it.

So, if you're interested and have something appropriate, tell me.

Contact me.

Here's how to reach me.

Phone:
USA: 1-817-203-GLVR (4587)
UK: 01803 500 900.
They're 24-7-365 straight-to-voicemail.
I usually return calls within 48 hours—often same-day.