OK, let’s imagine you just happen to bump into someone on the street you know slightly, and they ask the drainingly obvious question: how’s your startup going? What should you say? Just as with newlyweds being asked how’s married life?, there’s a huge temptation to stay bang on script by giving a TechCrunch-style answer, with every notable [...]
As UK angel startup investors doggedly continue their ingenious strategy of, ummm, not actually investing in startups, many UK entrepreneurs are having instead to follow what people such as Paul Grant promote as the “bootstrapping” path – for really, how far towards critical mass can you get your company using just ingenuity, oxygen, and the contents [...]
Last Friday, I went to one of Paul Grant’s startup seminars at the British Library: this was an all-dayer, and featured no-punches-pulled insert sessions from an angel investor (Colin Coghlan) and a specialist startup lawyer (William Robins from Keystone Law). It was very good to get a rather more ‘political’ take (in terms of influence & negotiation) on the UK angel-entrepreneur [...]
