In a world of flux finding A-players isn’t enough

March 2, 2013

Yesterday I spent the day at the London Web Summit, listening to many successful entrepreneurs tell their stories and provide advice. Mike Lynch, who recently sold Autonomy for £10bn, made a point that I have always agreed with very strongly – “the true asset of a software company is its team”. I’ve always believed that [...]

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You can’t hide from life – why entrepreneurs take risks

February 17, 2013

When I was eighteen, I took a gap year between school and university. Partly it was because I had many ideas about how to get involved in the world of business, and wanted to get some of them started. But equally, I had another reason, and jumped at the opportunity when my college told me [...]

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The kid who made a billion from playing computer games

February 2, 2013

My favourite blog post is probably the one about ivansparty.com – a site on which I posted photos and let people comment on them. It even got re-published in the April 2012 issue of Entrepreneur Country Magazine. But Facebook was just one of the billion dollar ideas which I missed out on. There is a [...]

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Beware the lollipop of mediocrity

January 25, 2013

Every day we deal with an incessant stream of decisions, from personal choices about diet and exercise, to business related ones about the quality of our work and the performance of the team we are responsible for. If we wanted to, we could take a day’s worth of these, and set them out in order [...]

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The single most unfair advantage a person can get

January 13, 2013

For a long time now I’ve been trying to find ways to maximise the productiveness of my time. Whether that comes from my current ambition to achieve great things, or from a feeling of needing to catch up because of the wasted years of my early twenties, I now jump at any opportunity to be [...]

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How to sharpen your instincts – Key Decision Analysis

January 1, 2013

Christmas is a time when the hectic life of even the busiest entrepreneur shifts down a gear, mostly as a personal choice on our part to spend time with our family and the people closest to us. It is also a great opportunity to reflect, and every Christmas I take this chance to go through [...]

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Fantastic advice to entrepreneurs and investors from David S. Rose

December 8, 2012

Should you be an entrepreneur or investor? If you’re interested in technology, do you go the high-risk route of starting a company, or do you take up a career in Venture Capital? It’s a problem that many people struggle with after leaving University, or a career that they have lost interest in. Over the past [...]

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My Approach to Investing – by Ivan Mazour

November 29, 2012

A few weeks ago I gave a talk on my approach to investing, and as I formulated my thoughts into a coherent description, it struck me that it would make an interesting blog post, as well as be useful information for companies looking for funding. One caveat is that I’m pretty sure that this is [...]

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Leveraging the Knowledge Gap or How to Make a Billion

October 18, 2012

Spending the past two days at The Mobile Show – a conference for brands trying to understand the huge shift in consumer attitude towards mobile technology – has reminded me of quite how easy it is to think that you are at the cutting edge, when in fact your knowledge is long since obsolete. I [...]

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Shooting for the Moon

August 24, 2012

Ever since I was little, my grand vision of what I wanted to achieve in my lifetime was to set up a colony on Mars. Inspired first by films, and then by reading and research,  I have spent decades telling family and friends how we live in an age where, in our lifetime, there will [...]

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