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The Law Store Cometh (3Cs Diaries #20)

July 04, 2018
by George Emsden
3cs, advocate, AI, artificial intelligence, assize, entrepreneur, investors in industry, law courts, magna carta, robot, start your own business, venture capital
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It’s Been 20 Years 3Cs 100th meeting with 5 speakers hosted by international law firm Taylor Wessing. 3Cs Community grew out of Investors in Industry (3i) formerly known as Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation providing finance for management buy outs in the 1980s. Now
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SEIS or SOS?

October 01, 2014
by George Emsden
dragons' den, EIS, entrepreneur, HMRC, mantra, SEIS, tax relief
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It’s really a matter of paperwork Investing in new businesses is generally higher risk than investing in existing ones, since businesses that have survived have hopefully learned something. This can make it difficult for entrepreneurs to raise capital to get their business going
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The Right Stuff (3Cs Diaries #14)

September 14, 2012
by George Emsden
3Cs Community, adam baker, arnold palmer, blottr, entrepreneur, facebook, free documentation, mark mccormack, simon walker, taylor wessing, venture capital
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Have you got The Right Paperwork? So you want to start a business? Olympics over, three quarters of the year gone and it’s the fourth out of five meetings for George’s favourite networking group 3Cs Community. We have a new host Taylor Wessing and our first speaker is Simo
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Prove it! (3Cs Diaries #13)

May 13, 2012
by George Emsden
3Cs Community, breast cancer, coca cola, entrepreneur, intellectual property, IP, patent trolling, patents, raising finance, trade marks, trade secrets
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You have discovered a cure for breast cancer, now what? First question might be is it really new? Next, can you prove it? Notebooks in particular are essential to establish who did what & when. Christi Mitchell Intellectual Property Director and Founder of Highbury Ltd, an IP cons
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It’s not about the Money (3Cs Diaries #12)

March 09, 2012
by George Emsden
9/11, adam baker, angel investors, angels den, bill morrow, blottr, entrepreneur, pivot, start ups, U-turn
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Expanding one’s vocabulary Second 3Cs Community meeting of the year, this time at City Business Library in its new Guildhall location and another great meeting. New ideas are expected but new vocabulary, less so. Traditionally, a woman can change her mind, politicians who do thi
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Now be a good boy and wash your hands (3Cs Diaries #09)

May 13, 2011
by George Emsden
3i, adam sutcliffe, addpiks, angels den, Davos world economic conference, entrepreneur, expenses receipts, freud pleasure principle, HIA, hospital acquired infections, investors in industry, iqbal gandham, keeping in touch, mark inskipp, MRSA, Nivio, stuart arnott, UK inflation, xpenser
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It’s my favourite networking group 3Cs Community again and the May meeting at solicitors Simmons & Simmons doesn’t disappoint. Investing in start-ups is pretty cool, much more exciting than the pathetic return you might get in an on-line account where the interest rate
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Diamonds on the soles of her shoes (3Cs Diaries #08)

November 11, 2010
by George Emsden
3Cs Community, alluvial diamonds, blood diamonds, botswana, data protection, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, glass case, graceland, jeremy bentham, networking, Paul simon, stuffed effigy, taxidermist, university college
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Someone has been looking at my ecademy profile called me and left a message. Line is so bad that all I can make out is…alluvial deposits (diamonds?)….West Africa….investors…..US$250,000. The guy leaves an overseas phone number but the country code is garbled. Y
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Your own worst enemy (3Cs Diaries #07)

August 19, 2010
by George Emsden
3Cs Community, bill morrow, business start ups, electrician, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, financial services compensation scheme, FSCS, honda motors, lech walensa, soichiro honda, solidarity, tony blair, toyota, trade union
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You have a killer business idea, a financial background and start knocking on doors in the City with your business plan. Several months and several thousand pounds later, you have achieved nothing. What to do now? This is a well-trodden track. Mr Honda’s original ambition was to
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Fat Angels or too much of a Good Thing (3Cs Diaries #05)

January 22, 2010
by George Emsden
3Cs Community, annual rate of return, dragons' den, edwin land, entrepreneur, failure, hugh stewart, internal rate of return, IRR, mike southon, polaroid camera, shackleton ventures, skin in the game, small businesses, university college london
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Another year and it is time for my favourite networking group 3Cs Community meeting this time at UCL Advances the entrepreneur arm of the huge University College London  The Dragons’ Den format allows 3 or 4 presentations in 2 and half hours with time for questions. After this, networ
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