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The other day someone asked me how I decide which opportunities to work with companies I take up.  It’s easy to give a glib answer to that – and the answer I gave was that I’m really looking for [...]

Deal Rooms for Exits I’ve been hearing about the use of electronic deal rooms in Exit due diligence (see What Is Due Diligence ) for a long time now, but recently I’ve heard more about how they [...]

If you have a team of great people, what are the chances they will agree on everything? http://www.ctoaas.co/blog/2013/10/24/teams-shouldnt-need-to-reach-consensus/

Several years ago now I came across an extract from “In Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance” by Jonathan Fields Entrepreneurs live everyday with the fear that whatever [...]

Love Office or hate it, most of us end up spending a fair bit of time working in it!  I thought I’d link a couple of things I have to look up every time… How to animate a table to appear in [...]

I hear a lot about how difficult it is to recruit good people in the startup sector, and I wish I had a magic wand to solve the problem.  While I am working on a couple of things that might help, [...]

Buckingham Palace today announced that the Royal Family would extend its business interests by forming an investment fund focussed on Scottish business.  A spokesman said “We are keen to launch a [...]