Thank you very much!

To everyone who has helped me to pull this whole thing together...

• Rich Gorman and Stephen Neild at Xevo Software for being as good as their word when they told me that the Xevo CMS is 'the iPhone of CMSs'.

• Charlie Haywood of Hootfoot Design who has let me abuse his good will and generosity more times than is decent to admit.

• Mary-Ann Murdoch and Megan O'Hare at The Storey Creative Industries Centre for tolerating my constant distractions on reception and keeping me off the streets.

• Richard Hammond and Chris Doyle (now left) at Lancaster City Council for granting me the first financial support to put down the deposit on the software licence.

• Amalie Roberts and Kevin McManus at North West Vision & Media for supporting the digital development of the site with cold hard cash.

• Eve Gao, Shab Mahmood, Pankaj Parti and Krishna Venugopal, four MBA students who took a very hypothetical brief and managed to create a perfectly feasible business plan for the site.

• Luqi Shen, the MSc Management & Marketing student who's currently working on a very feasible and not remotely hypothetical marketing plan.

• Illy Margaritova, Katy Lord, Lin Lan, Vicky Rowland and Richard Moxon for their enduring patience as they wait to help me with actually conducting the initial data collection.

• Charlotte Stuart at Lancaster University Grow Creative for doing everything possible to shoe-horn this project into the lives of her enterprise students.

• Gavin Smith & Jon Powell at Lancaster University Research and Enterprise Unit: Gavin for his work on the tech spec for coming improvements to The Lemon, and Jon for being such a great enterprise champion.

• Sue Denver at Business Link for general guidance and connecting me with the Winning Pitch High Growth Programme, Xevo Software and InfoLab21, among others.

• Nick King at InfoLab21 for all his support with my recently successful Innovation Voucher bid.

• Mike Jones at Liverpool University Institute of Popular Music for getting most of these ideas both in and out of my head in the first place.

• Neil Simpson for being a fantastic sounding board for many of the ideas that are realised here in this site.

• Matt Hutchinson and Gemma Coupe at Creative Lancashire and Jon Webster at the Music Managers Forum for their continuing support and good-will.

• Stewart Parsons at Get It Loud In Libraries and Ben Ruth at Lancaster Music Festival for giving me a chance to cross-promote at their events.

• Gareth Dennison at Morph Films for helping me solve some very basic Photoshop issues in a very unpatronising way.

• Adele Burrow at Lancaster Music Forum for the impetus of her impatience to see The Lemon actually doing what I said it was going to do.

• Gary McClarnan at Sparkle Street, Ruth Daniel & Jeff Thompson at Fat Northerner, Nian Brindle at Tambourine Management, Anna Esslemont and Cormac Byrne at Yukka/Uiscedwr and Roo, Simon, Rich and Ed at Alamo/Hope & Social for pure unadulterated inspiration.

• My family and other animals for keeping me fed and watered and not once hassling me to get a 'proper job'.

My eternal gratitude,

Simon Harrison

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