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Friday, January 2nd, 2009Just a quick "Happy New Year" post!
I have just uploaded several interviews I have done with BusinessWeek and also one with the "struggling entrepreneur" that I hope you will find useful and worth a listen.
Take a look here:
During 2009 I…
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Get some free Tony Robbins training…
Friday, December 5th, 2008I really like Tony Robbins and have met him at one of his seminars, he’s a larger than life character for sure but his charisma and speaking abilities are what I like most.
Also, he has an amazing sense of “contribution”…
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My wife reminded me: "The darkest hour is–in fact–right before the dawn…"
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Everywhere I look and everything I read is depressing, as a UK native living in CA, USA I am appalled by what the current government has done to "great" Britain and what it’s about to do will make the UK…
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Attracting Venture Capital in a Down Market
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008While exits in the form of IPOs have been non-existent in recent months, and the number of startup acquisitions has slowed considerably, the effects of the current economic climate are only now beginning to impact the market for seed &…
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The VC Taskforce Elevator Pitch Roundtable
Monday, November 24th, 2008The VC Taskforce Elevator Pitch Roundtable is a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to network with investors and other CXOs, present their companies and ideas, and hear first-hand what it takes to raise early-stage capital in 2009. These events consistently draw…
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The current economy…the Silver Lining
Thursday, November 6th, 2008With every cloud comes a silver lining…right!
I am glad I am not alone in this thinking and this week a friend and my US lawyer John Montgomery sent me and others in his circle an uplifting memo that I thought…
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As you expect in this climate angel money tighter
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Inc Magazine reports angel money tighter with Angels not only having to worry about less M&A opportunity for investments and a dead IPO market.
On top of that they are being squeezed by the current financial climate and as an angel…
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Raising money from VC Q4 2008…watch out!
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
In reading up on this topic and meeting friends on both sides of the entrepreneur/VC table in recent weeks it seems that panic has set in all over…and with good reason.
Obviously things are going to be tough in the next…
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We desperately need Woman …and European law makes it almost impossible to hire them.
Monday, September 8th, 2008A remark from one of my lawyers I found quite shocking stimulated this post.
He works for one of Europe’s largest lawyers and he told me that the law totally works against the employment of Woman…”that’s why no-one wants to employ…
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Why Europe is still so far behind the US Entrepreneur culture
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008It’s endemic - that’s why. In all the “systems” that educate, control and channel our children it all says “play safe” and get a job with a big company.
In the UK for example, the UK’s FT reported research carried out…
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