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Author Archives: Andrew Pearce
‘Student Loans’ for budding entrepreneurs!
You may or may not have heard the cries from UK entrepreneurs over the past week, all of whom are calling for the government to introduce a new funding scheme for young entrepreneurs based on the student loan system. Unsurprisingly, these calls have been led by jack of all trades and general business provocateur [...]
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Tagged business zone, coalition, education, entrepreneurs, Loans, obama, President, Richard Branson, telegraph, virgin
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China; a growing VC hotspot.
In the third quarter of 2011, investors put $1.3 billion into 89 deals for venture-backed companies in China, an 84% increase in investment and 19% increase in deal flow over the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. At the same time, VC spending slid 12 percent in Europe to almost the exact [...]
TechStars – heard of it?
A new documentary television show, TechStars, aired recently in the U.S with a view to give the public an insight to those high-octane lives of start-up founders. Following every step of their journey from brainstorming to coding to pitching, the show will follow ten selected companies that include a fashion e-commerce site (ToVieFor), a social-classified [...]
Spam anyone? LinkedIn drops another ball.
The spotty, least-cool brother of the social network family – LinkedIn, seems to have further damaged my already dubious opinion of it recently. Two things appear to have happened: 1) I have been receiving numerous requests from people I don’t know, even by six degrees of separation, and 2) Many people I know have been [...]
Coalitions New Tax Inspectors Won’t Help, Right?
The Lib-Con, or should that be Con-Lib coalition and the Treasury are set to crackdown on tax avoidance by the UK’s wealthiest people by recruiting 2,250 more tax inspectors. In 2011/2012, most will start paying 20% tax at £7,475 and 40% tax at £42,475 and 50% on earnings above £150,000, regardless of whether you earn [...]
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Tagged Coalitition, Mr Buffet, obama, Philip Green, Tax, Treasury
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Top Tips for Securing Investment
Having been asked this question on more than a couple of occasions, I thought I’d share with you my top tips for securing private investment. It’s something even seasoned entrepreneurs can struggle with and most first time ‘pitchers’ find terrifying. In reality though, with a couple of handy hints and much time given to seriously [...]
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Tagged business, business tips, Investment, small business, SME, startup
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