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The evolution of early stage investing in the UK

The Equity Kicker

Two developments have changed the face of startup investing in the UK in recent years. The first development is increased capital efficiency. However, finding and assessing investment opportunities is still a difficult and time consuming business. Forward Partners and Crowdcube are both attacking elements of these problems.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. I didnt give up so I worked around the clock to get it done.