Comment & Analysis
After the gold rush
Ambition abounds in this year’s Power Top 50, our round up of the most influential entrepreneurs and investors in the growth company space during a testing 2009.
Harman's choice
The arguments on both sides are well-rehearsed, but something is missing from the retirement debate.
Let’s restart the century
It’s a new year, new decade and the UK is stumbling out of recession.
Founding principles
The biggest barrier to business success may just be yourself.
Snow flakes
As much of the UK is covered in another layer of icing, the excuses for not making it to work keep rolling in.
Confidence tricks
British entrepreneurs often admire the American spirit of dauntless optimism, so effectively tapped into by President Obama’s campaign slogan ‘Yes, we can’.
The worst VC in the world
The reputation of private sector venture capital may be at a low ebb, but there is one consolation for the industry.
Economic reality
Entrepreneurs are natural optimists. They have to be, as it is common knowledge that nearly half of all businesses fail within the first three years.
Bail-out of the bonuses
It’s 6am at King’s Cross Station which, much like the government's low carbon policy, is still unfinished after a decade of constant redevelopment.
We need to get CGT right
One of the best things this government ever did for growing businesses was to bring in taper relief on business assets. One of the worst things it did was to take it away again.
The art of pricing
In the 1980s, my old company, Sage, produced its first £99 accounts package on the Amstrad.
Information rage
A recent study of employees at an investment management company found that they were interrupted 20 times an hour.
The importance of making things
For the last few decades, there’s been a nostalgic regret that the UK ‘doesn’t make things anymore’, but the cry has never been louder than it is now.
Low wattage
The UK government's support for cleantech takes the biscuit.
Starting up in a recession
Recessions bring about change, and that’s the perfect environment for a new business.
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