Mike Harris's Blog

After a few months of experimenting with various ways to provide practical help to entrepreneurs , based on the principles outlined in Find Your Lightbulb I have now formalised an arrangement with Anurag Gupta, founder of the Vancouver based Difference Engine to create The Difference Engine UK a coaching , mentoring, design and implementation support service for business people with big ideas.

Of the four companies we have worked with so far in the last few months , one has increased revenues by 8 times, one by 5 times and one by 3 times. The fourth has taken a simple idea and turned it into a powerful business concept and lined up the finance necessary for a launch later this year.

Anurag's track record in Vancouver and the US in nothing short of stellar: including helping apparel company Lululemon to a CAD $3bn IPO and increasing a construction company's annual revenue from CAD$3m to CAD$15m .

Anurag and I working together in the UK are focusing on start-ups with powerful ideas, high growth SMEs with big ambitions, (turnover currently up to a million pounds per annumn) and established businesses who want to become high growth (turnover one to ten million pounds pa and up ) . We make our fees affordable by having all but expenses covered by success fees , based on upside financial performance.
You can find further information at: www.thedifferenceengine.org.uk

If you are interested in working with the Difference Engine UK please get in touch by email at

info@findyourlightbulb.com