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  • Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

    My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back than founders who eventually need to hire a CEO.I have talked about this publicly a great deal – how I prefer “missionaries” over “mercenaries.” But lately I’m...

  • What If Einstein Had Been In Business?

    Most business has not yet caught up with Einstein. His theories are hard enough to apply in science, so can they really be applied to business?  Strictly speaking, no. But let’s ask a different question: “Have Einstein’s theories of relativity usefully influenced our view of life and truth, the modern...

  • Why It's Time To Stop Generating New Leads

    I hope the headline caught your attention - it was intended to. After all, aren’t fresh leads the lifeblood of any company that depends on winning new business to grow? Of course they are. I left half the headline out. Here’s how the sentence ends: “Why it’s time to stop generating...

  • Santander Organise Trade Mission to New York For Entrepreneurs

    The US is an obvious first choice for aspirant exporters and the recent Breakthrough trade mission to New York gave nine companies an important insight into its business culture.Succeeding in a key export market like the US is the stated ambition of many high-potential businesses. Articulating that ambition and realising...

  • Risk Taking Vs. Fear

    Risk taking is something that is a natural part of work and life. For some it may seem risky to eat a yoghurt that is past the “sell by” date, where as for others they dont even think about the potential implications of doing so. The people in the boat...

  • Transforming the Online and Physical World: Daniel Ishag

    Those of you who remember the proliferation of the internet may recall early, inefficient search engines that provided pages of information unrelated to your query. With today’s reliance on Google, it is hard to imagine that we ever lived in a world where search tools didn’t make sense or provide...

  • The Importance of Proprietory Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

    When I was new to Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. It was a fun period for me because everything was new and I was curious. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage? What price? With which other investors? Should I focus on...

  • How To Escape The Gravity of Competition

    The standard view is that businesses should strive to maintain a lead over their rivals. But this is wrong. A lead is something that connects two parties. You shouldn’t be seeking a lead. An ever-growing distance from competitors is easier to achieve than an ever-growing lead over them, and is...

  • Forget the 80/20 Rule - in Business it’s the 1% That Will Deliver Growth

    For most of us the 80/20 rule provides an uncannily accurate measure of events – and the world of business is no exception. So I was expecting this effect, known as the Pareto principle, to rear its head as I was reading Goldman Sach’s recent report on stimulating small business...

  • To Lead The Recovery, Business Must Learn To Help Itself

    It is hardly a secret that SMEs hold the key to a sustainable recovery for the UK economy, and indeed across Europe. As a report released last week by the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK programme showed, 1% of UK firms created 23% of all jobs between 2007 and...

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