Category: Venturing, Entrepreneurship, Innovating
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Watering the Seeds
At a venture meet-up yesterday I sat in a hot room listening to questions posed to an expert panel on prospects for start-up funding. Having been a capital-raiser for my own business as well as for a variety of entities ranging from SMEs to public sector monopolies, I always found it fascinating how important we…
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Droughts can lead to new wells
2008’s meltdown reset the financial services industry. It caused chaos worldwide and for a short while, it brought the masters of the financial universe down the earth. More importantly for me, it was my catalyst, moving me from a pattern of waiting for the right time, to acting and creating various windows. Opportunities. With primary…