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Author Archives: Andrew Pearce
Is It Better To Be Proactive or Reactive? [when not knowing all the facts]
I received an email earlier today from the founder of Seatwave , Joe Cohen. In it, he detailed that tonight’s Channel 4′s Dispatches programme will more than likely feature unfavourable footage of Seatwave employees. This footage was filmed undercover and Joe believes it may be misrepresentative of what the company is about. However, by defending it before the [...]
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Brand Partnerships – The New Bank Loans?
I recently read one of the most concise and interesting articles regarding strategies for partnering with big brands I’ve ever read. Published by entrepreneur.com, Tom Szaky’s piece offered insights in to how best to equip your business for exciting new routes to market; something that most (every?) companies are constantly eyeing up, but few actually [...]
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Tagged bank, bank loan, brand, brands, converse, entrepreneur, levi, money, Nike+, partnerships
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‘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 [...]