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Category: Investing

Startup and mid-cap company investment, primarily through Tech City, London

18th September 2015Investing

Pre-money Valuations

So I’ve just been offered an investment in a company. The company has been valued at a pre-money figure. Pre-money valuations are […]

23rd July 2015Investing

3 Ways to value a company

In an earlier blog I described the traditional way to value a company. Paul Graham of Y Combinator, attempts to value a company […]

7th July 2015Investing, Mentoring

Mentoring adventures – Watching failure in real time!

So I’ve just had another mentoring session with my Incubator in London. It was organised in a slightly ad-hoc manner, so I […]

24th June 2015Investing, Mentoring

How do we measure success?

After observing the Tech City Media, one would think that the goal of a startup is to raise finance. Most success stories […]

4th June 2015Investing, Mentoring

How leveraged should you be?

So I was offered an investment in a mid cap company. They were seeking £600K for an 8% investment in their holding […]

2nd June 2015Investing, Mentoring

Structure of a Business Plan

I got another business plan today that fails to describe what the product does and how it works. It also spends a […]

2nd June 2015Investing, Mentoring

Don’t make claims you can’t back up.

I have a very selective memory, my wife will tell you I can’t remember names, not just people, but places or things. […]

27th March 2015Investing

Should money go up in smoke?

So another funding dilemma I have been grappling with recently. Whether to invest in companies that are growing, successful but losing money? […]

23rd March 2015Mentoring

Learn from losers

I’m currently about halfway through Eric Schmidt’s book: How Google Works, and I’m not really getting that much from it. It reads […]

18th March 2015Investing, Mentoring

The Funded Salary Conundrum for Startups

If you’ve been following my blog on “The Secrets of Investing”, you’ll be aware of my dilemma on providing startup funding to […]

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