Business Development
Business Development including Investment, M&A and Divestiture
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Joy – Netflix
My wife found this on Netflix last night and for anyone considering life as an entrepreneur it’s just brilliant viewing. More valuable than much of the management consultancy out there, or a heap of books and a heck of a lot more enjoyable (great acting by Jennifer Lawrence, Edgar Ramírez, Robert De Niro) https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80064513
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A Brexit Guide for SME’s
Introduction The term Brexit has now become used as an encapsulation of the incredibly complex journey we have ahead of us in moving Britain out of the EU. The actual Brexit referendum was held on Thursday 23 June 2016 with a decision to leave carried by 51.9% to 48.1% with a turnout of 71.8% and more than 30 million people voting. England and Wales voted in favour of leaving but Scotland and Northern Ireland both backed staying in the EU by 62% and 55.8% respectively. There were prophesies of huge market impacts and the pound did slump the day after the referendum and it remains around 15% lower against the…
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Transforming a business!
Each Monday I face the usual rush to leave home in Bedford by 5am to get ahead of the M1/M25 traffic. After a long drive I drop the car off in Reading at 7am and take a short walk past the office to pick up a large Cappuccino from the local Starbucks before heading back to meet up with Antony Redmond and Jonathan Spragg, the joint founders of reqiva and the other early starting members of the management team. Starting a business from scratch is tough, long hours, stress and you have to pretty much do everything yourself from building the business plan to selling the products or services, plumbing…
