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Paul Graham has recently published an excellent article on the difficulties of identifying startups that will succeed, and specifically “that the best ideas look initially like bad [...]

The lucky few will eventually get to the point where investors seem ready to put money into the business.  At this stage investors will normally prepare a term sheet (or “heads of terms”) which [...]

There is a new lean startup community forming in Scotland, following the principles captured in by Eric Ries in his book The Lean Startup.  Typically lean companies develop web applications, [...]

While my last post in this series was about connecting to investors in the first instance, this one is about how to maintain a relationship until you are ready for investment. Right back in the [...]

I spent today at the YCF Scotland Annual Conference at Stirling Management Centre.  This is the first time I have attended as I have kept having diary clashes.  It was the 10th annual conference [...]

I was at a Saltire Foundation event the other night where Elaine Eisenman, Dean of Executive Education at Babson College was speaking. She recounted a talk given by the President Leonard [...]

Event report: Edinburgh International Marketing Festival Creativity and innovation are fundamentally interlinked.  Creativity contributes to innovation, and innovation contributes to creativity. [...]