Starting to Meet Travel Companies

I had the pleasure of meeting a real life travel entrepenuer today. . .

Mr Stephan Ekbergh is behind openjet in the UK, Travelstart in Sweden and a whole host of other online travel companies operating around the world.

Thanks to linkedin, a meeting was arranged and I was fortunate enough have a tour of the Travelstart Nordic HQ and chat with Stephan about his businesses and my future plans post Sterling. It was great to talk to someone with a helicopter view of the online travel industry and nice to have some encouragment for my own plans. Travelstart is an innovative company with great technology and a very slick front-end website.

Anyone that knows me well will know that for as long as I remember I had wanted to create businesses. While other kids were idolizing Ian Rush I was more into Sir Richard Branson and Sir John Harvey Jones !! I don't think I'm a capitalistic pig but I just love commerce. When I was a kid my uncle said that by the time I was 30 I would either be in prison or be a millionaire !. Still a few months to go ;)