Tag: Social Entrepreneurship
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Caring For Tomorrow
As the summer ends, I’m about to take a path less travelled. Taking a break from SMBs and fintech, I’ll be joining a six-month social entrepreneurship mission focused on exploring how we could add quality to later life. While a fairly wide area to cover, experience over the past few years pushes me towards care,…
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Start-up Rapp: #Seedcamp USA12 Trip Edition
Whether these lines are a rap or poem, I am not sure. But for those who were on the Seedcamp 2012 USA visit, some of this will be familiar. My pitches better yield some money my prose better bring me cash, customers or connections angel, seed or working capital through Midtown, Cambridge and Menlo managing…
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Planes, Pitches, Highways & Few Glitches: Seedcamp East & West Coast Trip 2012
Waiting to board the plane back to London from San Francisco, my reflections mirror the pattern of aircraft taking off and landing in front of us. We’ve been on the road since late Feb on the 2012 Seedcamp USA trip. It has been an exhausting but enjoyable journey which yielded its share of pleasant surprises.…
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Once bitten, how shy?
I was having chatting with someone at a London Business School Entrepreneurial Leadership event recently and I was asked the question: was my last entrepreneurial experience so bad that I waited over 10 years to try it again? I had learned some expensive lessons: look with your eyes, not your wishes – just because you…
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Tycoon in a Rose Garden
Fresh out of business school, armed with an MBA, confidence and youth, I took a sabbatical from my consulting job to become a magnate. That was the plan, anyway. I had watched too many movies. Fuelled by delusions of grandeur, a gut feel substantiated by narrow research and the belief that I would do it…