Today I spent the afternoon and evening at the Second Chance Tuesday event in London. In the afternoon there was an ''Early Stage Funding Workshop'' for an audience of about 100 companies, which consisted of a panel discussion with entrepreneurs and investors talking about what setting up and investing in a business is really like. Richard ...

One of the questions I get asked most frequently by start-up software companies, and one that came up during The Online Opportunity event last week, goes something like this:   "We would like to build a business around a solution we're developing using the Microsoft platform and tools, but we just don't have the cash to pay for the ...

  As of the 1st of October 2007 we are now offering the opportunity for high growth, well funded, innovative software or services companies in the UK to apply to be evaluated for the programme. To have your company evaluated complete the Emerging Business Team Profiler, use RSVP code “Accelerator”.   Even if your company is not ...

UPDATE 4 Oct 2007 For those who weren't at the UK Microsoft Startup Accelerator Programme launch event (or fell asleep during my introduction and didn't wake up) on Monday the 1st of October, here is, in order of appearance both some pictures and videos.   Ryan Carson   Lars Lindstedt - Video   Brent Hoberman ...

  This is the second year that I'm involved in the Running the Gauntlet (RTG) entrepreneurship competition that the East of England Development Agency organises together with  a group of VCs (Create Partners, Low Carbon Accelerator, NW Brown, and SEP) and Library House. RTG, which I think can best be summarised as "Dragons' Den ...