Tim Minshall organises great talks. This time a double-header of academic, Professor David Storey of Warwick Business School and a Senior Economist at Barclays, Julian Frankish. Like the Equity Fingerprint NESTA project, they were seeking a quantitative analysis. They decided to ask the question “Do Entrepreneurs Learn?”. Continue Reading »
John Cavill asks “Do we really understand the drivers of New Venture Success?”. It is a “must read” by an entrepreneur who has been there and done it!
We need a logo for the Cambridge Cluster that will last for years and years. But judging from this article, logos do not keep going on and on but need to be updated. Some have Equity Fingerprint stories attached to them: the first Apple logo was designed Continue Reading »
The Coyote Blog describes the difficulty of being an entrepreneur in the state of Michigan – “they simply don’t understand even the fundamentals of business”. Cambridge Enterprise are running The HORIZON Seminar: The Thinking Machine, taking Continue Reading »
Thomas F Hellman recently appointed Director of the W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Centre and others have recently completed a major study of the involvement of Venture Capitalists with their portfolio companies. VCs who have partners with industry experience Continue Reading »
No doubt it is a wise business move for 3i to pack it’s bags and consolidate in London; hopefully from an office in the King’s Cross area. It is not so much the money which the Cambridge Cluster will miss, it is Continue Reading »
Pinotblogger takes a long hard look at the collapse of Stormhoek which grew fast with pioneering promotion by sketching blogger Hugh Mcleod. Pinotblogger Continue Reading »
Fred Wilson uses Twitter all the time and here are examples of his messages. Of course Fred is an investor in Twitter. Most people dismiss Twitter and wonder what it is all about. But it keeps growing and growing.
Valleywag reports that Michael Dell is buying his brother’s business, MessageOne. The Equity Fingerprint would be fascinating as brother Adam and his parents only take $1.5million whilst Continue Reading »
