Blogs
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Day 12 - From Lithuania to Cambridge
Imagine that fourteen days ago, you left your startup life in Lithuania to come join Springboard. Imagine navigating strange British customs and systems for the first time,... More
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Day 11 - Accountants and VC/Angels: Show Me the Money!
Money made our day go round with specialists covering finance from all angles. The morning kicked off with speed accounting meetings, and we were grateful to have Dominic... More
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Cambridge Today Blog
Does Cambridge recognise the new ‘Phenomenon’?
While there are still ‘sell by’ dates on virtually everything on the planet we would do well to recognise that this includes humans. There comes a time when grey beards have... More
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Brand Aid Blog
M&S say knickers to Ann Summers
“Something for the weekend, sir?”, an offer once made by Gentlemen’s Hairdressers to their more mature customers – followed by a furtive and embarrassed bit of business – is... More
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FutureTech Blog
The battle ahead for control of the IT industry
It is an interesting time for the IT industry. After two decades of convergence, we are finally at the point where pretty much all IT companies are realising that they are... More
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Cambridge Today Blog
Threat of stem cell patent ban an affront to civil liberties
Some potty ideas emanate from Europe but the latest act of folly just about takes the croissant. Britain in particular and Europe in general has the rare honour of... More
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Springboard Cambridge 2011 is open for business
Late this morning, ten teams from Cambridge and beyond settled into their new home in ideaSpace to take part in the 13 week acceleration programme that is Springboard. We... More
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Cambridge Today Blog
Following the food chain
Forget the Columbus myth. The humans who first populated the Americas – the forebears of the native Indian peoples – had taken part in a migration of epic proportions from... More
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Brand Aid Blog
Lip-smacking, thirst-quenching, sales-plunging, brand-fading … Pepsi!
As a marketing professional I’m not normally one to mangle a great copy line or denigrate a company’s brand strategy, but in this case Pepsi have already scored an own-goal... More
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FutureTech Blog
The decade ahead
We are in interesting times. The web is mature, we have fast PCs, reasonable broadband speed and small mobile phones that do lots, 3D TV and pretty realistic computer games.... More