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Monthly Archive for: "March, 2011"
By Ian Stevenson
In Business Plans, Market Discovery, Market Research, Marketing, Startup Management
Posted 31st March 2011

Competitors Shouldn’t be Elephants in the Corner of the Room

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Friday Link, Investment
Posted 25th March 2011

Friday Link #8 – Young Company Finance

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Startup Management
Posted 22nd March 2011

Only Superheroes have Liability Shields

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Financials, Friday Link, Investment
Posted 18th March 2011

Friday Link #7 – StartupCFO

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Investment, Startup Management
Posted 14th March 2011

Rolling the Dice – Friends, Family and Fools

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Tools
Posted 12th March 2011

Tools: My First Prezi

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Friday Link, Intellectual Property
Posted 11th March 2011

Friday Link #6 – A Better Mousetrap

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Friday Link
Posted 4th March 2011

Friday Link #5 – Guy Kawasaki on Pitching

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Investment
Posted 3rd March 2011

Heavyweight Angels: £9m in one company

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 [...]

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By Ian Stevenson
In Startup Management
Posted 1st March 2011

Five Examples of Tech-Bubble-Think

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 [...]

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