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		<title>&#8216;Student Loans&#8217; for budding entrepreneurs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China; a growing VC hotspot.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TechStars &#8211; heard of it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spam anyone? LinkedIn drops another ball.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The spotty, least-cool brother of the social network family &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coalitions New Tax Inspectors Won&#8217;t Help, Right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lib-Con, or should that be Con-Lib coalition and the Treasury are set to crackdown on tax avoidance by the UK&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tips for Securing Investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fund 101 Helps Small Businesses To Grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ingenious new scheme from Enterprise Nation and Intuit is giving small businesses the chance to secure anywhere between £50 and £500 per month to help them grow their enterprise. The no-strings-attached format behind Fund 101means that if you are eligible, you don’t have to pay the money back – instead, all they ask for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TechCrunch Showcase&#8217;s kick off with inspirational Startups</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewjpearce.com/advice-for-smes/techcrunch-showcases-kick-inspirational-startups/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=techcrunch-showcases-kick-inspirational-startups</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the start of TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF showcase; one of the most coveted tickets in the startup and tech community calendar. Offering insight into the phenoms, potential players and wannabes amongst Silicon Valley&#8217;s startup set, Disrupt SF is the older brother and original precursor to the fantastic TechCrunch London event which will be held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Software Alter: Subjot</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewjpearce.com/advice-for-smes/software-alter-subjot/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=software-alter-subjot</link>
		<comments>http://www.andrewjpearce.com/advice-for-smes/software-alter-subjot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On browsing Tech Crunch this afternoon I came across Subjot, a clever new piece of software that allows Twitter users to separate their feed in truly useful ways. Twitter is a fantastic tool which I use regularly for keeping abreast of all sorts of news, but sadly it’s all too common that gold gets lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Startups VS Textbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are fewer young people working than at any time in the past two decades, according to figures which show that one in five 16 to 24-year-olds are unemployed. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the &#8220;inactive&#8221; population – which comprises young people who are neither working nor unemployed – stands at nearly [...]]]></description>
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