How to be a technology start-up mentor
You do not need be wise, or old, to set up shop in the wise old man business. There is a shortcut to gaining your own following of initiates listening to your every word. It is simple: become a...
View ArticleThe road to Hell
NACUE, the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs, is an umbrella organisation representing the UK’s university enterprise societies. Founded in 2009, it has grown in a few years...
View ArticleYou’d be mad not to join a start-up right now
According to a study conducted by the Complutense University of Madrid, around 60 per cent of current Spanish university students are considering undergoing one of the many competitive examinations...
View ArticleYou say you want a revolution?
Last week’s State of the European Union address from European Commission President José Manuel Barosso started trending worldwide on Twitter. That might initially sound surprising, for a remote, turgid...
View ArticleThe Twitter ‘black hole’
If Michael Gove had his way with implementing Latin lessons for British schoolchildren, more of us might recognise the term mobile vulgus. The fickle crowd. If Greek’s more your thing, the word...
View ArticleThe revolution will be crowdsourced
Eileen Burbidge, a partner at Passion Capital, recently tweeted: “honeymoon period around crowdfunding beginning to close”. This seems to be a popular opinion at the moment. Having launched a...
View ArticleBeware ‘grant writers’
Technology start-ups focus on their product. Rightly so. But they then must rely on professionals to help them navigate complex areas outside their expertise, such as employee benefit schemes and...
View ArticleThe necessity of satire
In case you’ve somehow been missing one of the television events of this year, The Thick of It has returned to our screens in a glorious explosion of expletives, shaky camera angles and bulging eyes....
View ArticleThe subscription economy
Every day we hear about how companies such as Netflix and Lovefilm take on the big boys and win. Today, you don’t buy a car or bike; city-dwellers get around with ZipCar or on a Boris Bike. You don’t...
View ArticleAn unlikely saviour
At the start of the twentieth century, Michelin had a problem. Despite inventing the removable pneumatic tyre in 1891 (trust me when I say this was a big deal back then) they faced intense competition...
View ArticleRise of the girl gamers
When you think of the average gamer, what pops into your head? Probably an unnaturally aged, somewhat rotund teenager holed up in his parent’s basement in yellowing underwear, junk food and soda cans...
View ArticleBarely legal
So, you have a great business idea, you know there’s a market for what you have to offer, you have a business plan and you even have an eye-catching name, possibly something created by adding ‘-r’ to...
View ArticleDon’t call me an entrepreneur!
I really don’t like calling myself an entrepreneur. It doesn’t mean anything any more. Maybe it once used to, but now it’s a catch-all people tag themselves with when they’re busy thinking and talking,...
View ArticleGetting it wrong
When you’re an entrepreneur, you get your business wrong at first. Everyone does. I realised we’d got ours wrong late last year. I’d decided to build a platform that would group what our users wanted...
View Article¡Ay, Lorenzo!
Nations, industries and companies invest billions in digitising their services as a way of saving money. That was the plan at the NHS, but the organisation has ended up spending £7 billion on an...
View ArticleTwitter and libel: a legal primer
The action Lord McAlpine is reportedly taking against Twitter users for falsely suggesting he was involved in child sex abuse has revealed a number of “myths” about the legal responsibility in England...
View ArticleCroydon’s facelift
For far too long, Croydon has been the stuff of both popular and private disdain. This is of no surprise. Arguably, our most notable cultural exports have been that bastion of erudition, Kate Moss, and...
View ArticleWhen virtual reality sheds the virtual
When Google Earth was released in 2005, it forever changed the way we saw the world. It literally mapped out our future. Whether it was the possible location of Atlantis in the Mediterranean, the...
View ArticleRussian giants look beyond their borders
Gone are the days when, in the need of some technical task or service, one would search the internet for a killer but dirt-cheap developer in Russia, Ukraine, or Romania. OK, maybe those days are not...
View ArticleHow entrepreneurs can help to fix education
It is impossible to anticipate what changes the next fifty years will bring, but some of the elements that will drive that change can be predicted. We face some truly fundamental challenges that need...
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