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Dear Companies House,
It’s lovely that you have a website and that you even allow Companies to file (some) documents online. And wait until Google and others find out about your revolutionary business model of paid search!...
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On leaders.
For me, the best definition of a leader is someone I would be happy to follow. I guess that makes Jacqueline Novogratz a leader in my book. I first discovered her and her firm Acumen Fund in the summer...
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Nauiokas Park in the (Financial) News
Vivek at Financial News reports today: Nauiokas Park – which was set up last summer by Amy Nauiokas and Sean Park, a former head of debt syndicate, credit trading and digital markets at Dresdner...
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Echo chambers.
To paraphrase Schumpeter, ‘successful business people are always conspiring to preserve the status quo.’ And one of the best ways to do that is to leverage your position in the market to influence,...
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I’m really jealous.
Huge congratulations to Stefan Glaezner and Eileen Burbidge for creating the White Bear Yard space for start-up entrepreneurs in central London. I’ve seen the space and it’s terrific with the only...
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Flatlanders don’t even know a 3rd dimension might exist
And so it’s hard to blame them when they ignore it. Still, call me crazy but I can’t help but being somewhat surprised and disappointed when one of the smartest, most reasoned leaders of the financial...
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The right stuff.
I often, ok sometimes, get asked what I look for in an entrepreneur / company founder / ceo and despite having a very clear vision of the ideal profile in my mind, I used to struggle to articulate it...
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Read this book.
Change is not death. Fear of change is death. I woke up reasonably early this morning with a long list of things to do today. Â But given that it’s Saturday, I thought it’d be ok to start slowly with...
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The alarm on my iPhone wakes me up each morning and after turning it off, before getting out of bed I often scan my inbox and my twitter stream bringing me up to speed on the hours that I missed. This...
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Manufacturing Serendipity: Networks, Communities & Ecosystems
“Which path do you intend to take, Nell?’ said the Constable, sounding very interested. ‘Conformity or rebellion?’ Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded – they are only for people who cannot cope...
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