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Posted in by James Faulkner on Fri, 20 Apr 2012
The risks of backing small companies haven’t stopped investors clamouring for the attractive potential returns of small-cap in the first quarter of 2012. And there are ways of accessing the growth potential of the UK’s emerging success stories without risking it all. Read more
Posted in Investors, Investing by Will Laws on Fri, 23 Mar 2012
George Osborne’s Budget puts a stop to future EIS opportunities relating to electricity feed-in tariffs. But his other revisions to the EIS, and the introduction of the SEIS, provide a welcome boost to innovative businesses in need of growth capital, and to investors in search of tax efficient opportunities. Read more
Posted in by John Gale on Tue, 6 Mar 2012
Figures released today suggest that Brazil may have overtaken the UK as the world’s sixth largest economy. The data shows that growth slowed from 7.5% in 2010 to 2.7% in 2011, partly due to the impact of the Eurozone crisis. But in an economic climate in which many countries are struggling to achieve any growth at all, how do they do it? Read more
Posted in Investors, Sustainability by David Mott on Fri, 3 Feb 2012
A dwindling pipeline of new technology; major companies threatened by blockbuster products coming off-patent, an increasingly stringent and constraining regulatory environment. Sound familiar? Not the pharma sector, but the high growth sector of biocontrol. Read more
Posted in Investing, Funding by Alastair Stewart on Mon, 9 Jan 2012
One of many things we look out for when looking at new investment opportunities: a funding trap. If we can see a high risk of being stuck in one of these, more often than not we will pass on the opportunity. How do you avoid getting "rejected" for this reason? Read more
Posted in Private equity, portfolio management by Edward Mott on Tue, 1 Nov 2011
Edward Mott explores the role of private equity and venture capital in post-recession equity portfolio optimisation. Read more
Posted in Investors by Sebastian Miller on Mon, 31 Oct 2011
Sunlight takes just 8 minutes to reach the earth and, in just 1 hour, more sunlight energy falls on the earth than is used by the entire population in one year? You may have noticed a growing number of column inches in the investment press about the UK’s solar energy sector which is experiencing rapid growth. Odd for a country best known for its fog and rain! Read more
Posted in Investors, Entrepreneurs by David Mott on Mon, 22 Aug 2011
'Autonomy to be acquired by HP'. This was the news hitting Twitter on 19th August 2011. A less reported point is that Mike was called in to meet with David Cameron at Number 10, before the deal was announced. For David Cameron, as for many of us involved in the UK tech sector, the question is whether this deal is a triumph or a tragedy? Read more
Posted in Investors, Entrepreneurs by David Mott on Thu, 30 Jun 2011
Today Google announced Google+. But its Executive Chairman was not in the Valley or on Wall Street. Instead he was talking to a group of UK tech entrepreneurs and VCs. Some notes from the discussion. Read more
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