The BGreen entry is IN

What a day - I now have told everyone I know and have ever known in my whole life. The video is up on the site (although slightly mangled in the aspect ratio, which I'm trying to get CNBC to fix).

Please go and look at it as soon as possible on http://www.goodentrepreneur.com/The-Competition/Entries-Pool/Climate-change-retail-stores and register, rate and comment! It takes less than 5 minutes including viewing the video.

By the way, there's a reason for not posting it here (or in YouTube for that matter) - if people don't view it on The Good Entrepreneur site, then it doesn't increase the "number of views" (and they may not remember to rate it either).

Thank you all for your patience.

And for those interested...

...this is my aforementioned little girl, Zoë.

Bless.

Why we're doing this

Here, by the way, is a river from the valley to the south of Marrakech, in the foothills of the amazing Atlas mountains. If global warming is not curtailed, this river probably won't be here in my lifetime, is my guess, or at least certainly not in the lifetime of my little girl. And that would be a damn shame.

1 month of prep, almost there now

Ok, it's almost there. Have had a short break during the last month to Marrakech with the family and now it's down to work for this competition. The video will be ready this week - possibly even tonight - and then it'll be time to ensure as many people as possible see it and rate it (hopefully highly!) It's been through a couple of iterations and have got comments from as many people as possible. If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well...

So far there are just 10 other entries. This is good!

Day 10

Back in Barcelona, today Luis and I will meet so he can give me feedback on the script of the pitch video. Luis, by the way, is my friend, colleague from IESE Business School and general partner-in-crime. Looking forward to getting this completed and posted so we can move on to the next stage of the competition.

Barcelona Green - Day One

Hey! I'm Rob Marchant, an entrepreneur from the UK, living in Barcelona. This website is to track progress on our proposed business, The Barcelona Green Company (or Barcelona Green, or simply bGreen) through the final stages of business plan and looking for investment. The trigger for closing what's been a fairly slow, one-year process just now is our entry into The Good Entrepreneur, a competition initiated by CNBC and Allianz.

Last week I saw the presentation from CNBC down at IESE Business School, Barcelona. This week I'm trying to find time during a trip to London to get the whole thing off the ground, the registration has just gone in. Excited about the competition, but realise it's a marathon, not a sprint. We need to get everything right.

As they say in horse racing, "and they're off..."

Coming soon

coming soon...