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Investors base their investment decisions on some combination of the Team, the Idea, and the Market.  As long as I can communicate effectively about these three areas, I am ready to start talking [...]

Sandy Finlayson at MBM Commercial writes an interesting blog, but this post about Preferences and Angels is a MUST READ for startup founders. It explains a really important structural difference [...]

One of the ways I judge a book as really good is when it still has me thinking about its content a few weeks later.  I recently read Angels, Dragons and Vultures by Simon Acland and quickly wrote [...]

Don’t Waste Time is great advice for start-ups on avoiding getting caught up in the minutia of running a business while missing the bigger issues.  It also links a wealth of other information to [...]

If you’ve ever wanted practical tips on demonstrating software, particularly Software as a Service, then you should check out this post Stunningly Awful SaaS Demos – Lost in the Clouds.  It is [...]

Public money and business are often uneasy bedfellows.  Stimulating a healthy economy is a core function for government as no-one can prosper without a sound business base, at least in a [...]

A colleague passed this link on to me a couple of weeks ago, after a discussion about how to use commission effectively with a sales team.  I found it rather amusing, if a little contrived, and a [...]

Back in December I blogged about some of the different types of crowdfunding under the title Crowdfunding Chaos, where I tried to categorise some of the types of crowdfunding that were emerging [...]