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Financing for Growth workshop

The Highlands and Islands Enterprise MIT Financing for Growth programme workshop recently took place. Bill Magee, was in attendance and sent his thoughts for us to share with you. Having now all but recovered from renowned Highland hospitality while acting … Continue reading

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The Scottish Co-Investment Fund

The Co-Investment fund has been extremely positive but is not as appreciated here in Scotland compared with other parts of the world where development agencies have actually reproduced the system in part or as a whole. At home familiarity seems to breed contempt and he warned that Scotland is in danger of losing sight of just how helpful it is for fast growth companies who are struggling to leverage themselves.
EIE11 keynote speaker Henry Chesbrough, executive director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at California’s UC Berkley Haas School of Business, called on the Scottish Government to provide more, not less, financial leverage for start-ups and growing companies. Continue reading

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The Power of Social Networking

If ever there was a case for the power of social networking and its ability
to create and develop incredible connections and lasting business gains just
listen to John Chambers, evangelistic chairman and chief executive of Cisco
Systems. Continue reading

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Kenneth P. Morse

Be prepared to have those cosy commercial set of values you’ve long taken for granted well and truly challenged, if you’re one of the lucky ones attending a Kenneth P. Morse masterclass 2-minute elevator pitch workshop under the auspices of University of Edinburgh’s groundbreaking Informatics Ventures (course organiser, and KILTR Associate, Andrew Mitchell.) Continue reading

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WikiLeaks ongoing saga

Predictably ~ and I guess it was always going to be that way ~ there are two camps in the whole WikiLeaks saga, falling between those issuing stern warnings that it represents the end of the modern world as we know it, to those who applaud the phenomenon as representative of a new era of democratic freedoms and open government. Continue reading

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And what of Facebook’s future?

According to one internet expert, the world’s biggest social network only has five years left before it starts to see users drift off the way they did with MySpace and other social network Bebo. Continue reading

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The new tech era and KILTR

The devastating effects of the technology dotcom meltdown have been well documented. They left entrepreneurs and financiers alike and in significant numbers with their fingers singed, many burnt. It is understandable that nowadays every £ is treated as a prisoner. Continue reading

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