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The trouble with one ring to rule them all
Ah, Startup Britain, that was a fun week. I don’t think it went exactly according to plan. My take on why the launch went so badly wrong is that there’s no such thing as a single startup community in...
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Creating a founder’s guide to European accelerator programs
We’re quite deep into writing the Startup Factories report for Nesta at the moment and while most of our research on the project has been looking at programs in the US, one of the interesting things is...
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Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five…
It’s the final few days to get your idea in for Social Innovation Camp. The Camp itself will be 17-19th June in Edinburgh. The last time we were up in Scotland we found the team behind MyPolice which...
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The Startup Factories
‘Incubator’ has become a dirty word for startups. During the dot-com boom of a decade ago, there were hundreds of spaces in the US and Europe dedicated to growing new digital businesses which investors...
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Ask not what government can do for startups…
There’s an interesting debate happening at Roundtable about entrepreneurship and public policy that includes some of my favourite people in the tech world such as Esther Dyson and Anil Dash. I...
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How to stop geeks becoming the next bankers
What if the jobs crisis we’re seeing across the western world isn’t just because of the financial meltdown, but is also due to technology? That’s the argument Andrew McAfee and Eric Brynjolfsson make...
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Why startups did better than pasties in the budget
Amongst the maelstrom of pasty, caravan and charitable giving budget screw-ups, very little seems to have been written about what the UK Government has done on investment into early stage startups...
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Changing sides of the table
Long time no blog. Sorry about that. It’s mainly because my routine has changed as I’ve made the switch from founder to being an investor (of sorts). We’ve just started with the 2012 cohort of six...
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Software’s unbalanced diet
I’ve been thinking a bit more about what’s going on in the economy and its relationship with technology. It was Albert Wenger’s post about whether the rise in consumer debt had something to do with...
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