Looking beyond the rough and tough entertainment of Dragons Den – here is what I took from the Christmas edition of the programme. If you want to secure investment for a new idea or business and need to make a presentation to a group of Business Angels you will need to get yourself ready. Going [...]
Archive for the ‘Archive 2007’ Category
What happened to Italy – where have all the entrepreneurs gone?
I have been to Italy twice in two months. The first time this year was for a conference on entrepreneurship. The audience were tough! We had a small delegation from Cambridge made up of entrepreneurs, investors and IP lawyers. The idea was that we would provide some new information, inspiration and connections to make things [...]
Fuelling an entrepreneurial economy needs talent – so is this Government mad?
UK Government is thinking of tightening the UK visa tourist visa regime. A country that has beenopen and has stared to benefit from such opennes is thinking about joining Fortress Europe! Oh Dear! The detail is in the text I have taken from the Beeb – but before you read this think about the following: [...]
Corporate entrepreneurship at Virgin comics
Every so often – in the compnay of very senior managers from large organisations – you get the feeling that the term “entrepreneurship” or “entrepreneur” is a demon in their management jargon. This is a term that causes hostility and conversations that drift no where in particular. The term entrepreneur is regarded with some suspicion [...]
Entrepreneurship as a social movement
There has been a seismic shift in many parts of the world where younger generations prefer to seek out enterprising opportunities rather than jobs for life. In many countries where ‘Generation Y’ is getting connected up on the new and rapidly growing social networks (e.g. ‘Facebook’; ‘MySpace’; ‘LinkedIn’, etc.), one can see aspirations changing in [...]
Indian Venture Capital is growing fast
I have been asked to speak at the University of Bath on the topic of entrepreneurship in India. as part of the research (helpfully conducted by UK-India Business council) we found a recent update on the venture capital scene in India. It is strongly based on knowledge based industries and from “no-where” it is rising [...]
26th November – Dragons Den – Questions, Intuition and drilling into vague answers.
Having watched tonight’s episode – I tried following the questions that were asked and some of the comments that were made. Maybe this will enable future entrepreneurs to ask themselves some of the questions and prepare themselves better – if not for TV – at least for investment propositions. Feel free to add to these [...]
Awakening Italian Enterprise
A small group of people familiar with entrepreneurship development in cambridge were invited to a day long semiar in Milan – by Il SOle 24 ore – the Financial Times of Italy. The participants from Italy included academics, managers of incubation centres, post docs, and doctoral students from science and technology.. They were certainly high [...]
Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge
Last week we had a dozen or so top entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley come to Cambridge. It was a real eye opener – in terms of seeing what and how business is being done in Silicon Valley. All the talk was about web 2.0 and manyspeakers referred to “faith and belief” in terms of making [...]
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