July 2017
Why are so many business angel investors male?
To paraphrase a popular ditty (less poetically but more pertinently), where have all the female business angels gone? In fact the question should be: where the heck were they to start with? More than 95% of the UK’s business angels are men, peculiarly – peculiar since long gone are the days when the millionaires of this world wore beards and
Think out of the box…
In a small Italian town, hundreds of years ago, a small business owner owed a large sum of money to a loan-shark. The loan-shark was a very old, unattractive looking guy that just so happened to fancy the business owner’s daughter. He decided to offer the businessman a deal that would completely wipe out the debt he owed him. However,
Shake off your problems…
A man’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice. He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries. He therefore decides to bury it alive. Soil is poured onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and steps on it. More soil is poured. It shakes it off and steps up. The more
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