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The StartupSummit 2012 event in November looks excellent – I’ve just bought my ticket and noticed that the early-bird discount only has another few days to run…  Get in there [...]

When I was living in California in 2009, I went up to Lake Tahoe for a weekend with my room-mate, and we climbed one of the peaks near the Lake.  It was a beautiful walk, on well a trodden path.  [...]

This isn’t strictly startup related, but I feel moved to write on this subject because I feel we need a serious and wide-ranging debate about how best to improve the environment for UK [...]

I am very pleased to be able to announce that in collaboration with MBM Commercial and Chiene+Tait Chartered Accountants, Salient Point will shortly be launching its first eBook: Equity – A [...]

There are plenty of websites about valuing a startup using the Venture Capital Method, or Discounted Cash Flow, or Net Present Value.  My experience is that none of these are all that relevant to [...]

Jane Frost, CEO of the Market Research Society, writes in the Guardian about ways that small businesses could benefit from working with a professional market researcher. How to use market [...]

I have lots of conversations with companies I work with, and with people I meet at events, on the subject of raising investment.  It is undoubtedly an extremely complex process, but there are a [...]

Founders may be having fun running a company, but investors want their money back.  This has a number of important implications for a business that takes external investment. The first of these [...]

Last night was the Saltire Foundation’s annual Aluminate dinner.  A chance for Alumni and supporters of the Foundation to get together for entertainment, networking, and to raise [...]

Generally this blog is about business, and particularly startup business.  Successful startups are built by special people – people with vision, energy and leadership.  People who [...]