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Business plans, investor pitches, and even executive summaries all have a section on competitors.  Talking about competitors can seem like the wrong thing to do, after all, surely competitors are [...]

YCF is a great source of news on young companies and early stage investment in Scotland – the printed journal is also worth subscribing to.  It’s a really good way of getting to grips [...]

Looking at advice on different corporate structures I often see “Limited Liability” being listed as one of the benefits of Limited Liability Companies.  In spite of the words appearing right [...]

I discovered a Canadian blog from Mark MacLeod called StartupCFO this week, initially through this post on Open, Honest Pitching.  I previously linked Guy Kawasaki’s thoughts on the content [...]

Most small companies start with money from the founders, their families and their friends.  Occasionally founders may find someone outside that circle to give them money – usually known as [...]

Yesterday I gave a talk in the business school at the University of Edinburgh, about my experiences of innovation in high-tech companies.  For a while I’ve been hearing about a new [...]

Intellectual Property can be pretty confusing, and often getting a patent seems like a great idea to innovators at a first glance.  This Friday’s link is to a site that provides a very [...]

This blog post entitled The 10/20/30 Rule of Powerpoint post on by Guy Kawasaki is nearly six years old now, but it is still one of the best articles on pitching I have seen.  Most of the [...]

I was at an event last week where Ian Stevens (founder of MPathy Medical) and Gavin Gemmell (chairman of Archangels Informal Investment) were talking about the recent sale of MPathy to Coloplast [...]

I spend a lot of my time hanging around technology companies and Universities, and sometimes I find these environments can be a bit of a bubble.  There are some views and opinions commonly held [...]