The acquisition of four companies in 1999/2000 were hugely damaging to the technology sector. Can anyone replace them? I was a investment banker, equity analyst and entrepreneur during the dot com boom (yes, I managed to do...

I just read a post on Nic Brisbourne’s The Equity Kicker which left me speechless. Entitled “European attitudes to entrepreneurship – still behind the US and in some cases going backwards”, it summarised an EU report on...

I am a big fan of Steve Blank. He teaches entrepreneurship at Berkeley and Stanford and wrote Four Steps to the Epiphany. In his most recent blog post, he attempts to answer the question: “Should an entrepreneur...

I’m not calling Dave McClure an idiot. Far from it. His presentation to last year’s Seedcamp on the basics of building a web business is inspirational. He calls it Startup Metrics for Pirates – AARRR! (He did...