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Thoughts, insights, advice, and activities that help startups and enterprises develop go-to-market strategies, become investor ready, and drive sustainable and collaborative cultures.


‘Space Network | Africa’ launched to support African Space Economy
Launch of Space Network | Africa to drive economic growth, innovation, and education in Africa's burgeoning space sector. Educational...
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Apr 7, 20253 min read


🏴 HAPPY NATIONAL TARTAN DAY 🇺🇸 !!
Today, April 6th, marks National Tartan Day in the United States, an annual celebration that honors the significant contributions of...
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Apr 5, 20252 min read


The Gender Cap in Entrepreneurial Finance. We all need to discuss this.
Last week I joined The Gaitherin' at University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School to discuss the challenges facing female founders....
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May 12, 20242 min read
Massive changes in Fintech in Scotland 🏴 - who knew?!
Yesterday and today, I was lucky enough to be at a few events in NY organized by FinTech Scotland , Scottish Financial Enterprise ,...
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Apr 3, 20242 min read


Growing and Scaling Startups: things that go wrong along the way.
Back in the '70s, Larry E. Greiner, a USC Marshall School of Business professor, came up with the Greiner Growth Model (or Griener Curve)...
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Mar 28, 20241 min read


Global ecosystem perspectives from NYC. 🗽
We had a fun evening with 42Geeks in New York last night, hosted by Itai Damti of Unit , and Chok Ooi . Great turnout to hear Sian...
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Mar 4, 20242 min read


Want to see what GOOD looks like when it comes to industry, government, and academia coming together to driving technology innovation in clean energy?
Then you wanted to be with Sustainable Alpha , Scottish Development International and our amazing group of global investors as we...
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Nov 1, 20232 min read


Creating Long-term sustainable business models
This is a great post from Robert Eccles : we have to get pragmatic and real about how to create long-term hashtag#sustainable ...
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Oct 26, 20221 min read


Understanding Regulatory Compliance and Risk: 5 Key Steps
Regulatory compliance requires traceability on external and internal factors, and a strong control framework to manage risk and change...
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Dec 12, 20173 min read


Better Regulatory Compliance & Transformation
GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE (GRC) Driving regulatory compliance and transformation involves many functions, lines of business,...
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Oct 31, 20174 min read


Are US Companies Ready for GDPR Compliance by May 2018?
Are US firms with European operations, customers, suppliers and citizen data going to be compliant with GDPR by May 2018 ? Many European...
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Jun 30, 20173 min read


Data Analytics and Data Lakes, Swamps and Yards
Interesting presentations and discussions at the #Databanking and #CDO event in NY the last two days . There was a variety of opinions...
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Dec 2, 20153 min read


Better Program and Change Management
Running large scale change programs is hard. I believe there is a more impactful and more efficient way to manage these types of programs...
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Nov 19, 20156 min read


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Apr 19, 20071 min read
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