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Brent Hoberman

@brenthoberman

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2x unicorn founder Co-founder/investor @firstminutecap @Founders_Forum @foundersfactory Angel investor - backed 9 unicorns at 🌱

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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Honestly can't believe the cynics on this @MattHancock set a BHAG (Big hairy audacious goal)-got everyone to focus and deliver. & Some want to get pedantic on what in the scheme of things are irrelevant details. The momentum is the key. In business this would be a palpable hit
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Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧
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Average voter sees @MattHancock as the guy who took the ball from one end of the pitch to the over and scored when every journalist had said he couldn’t Those same journalists are now complaining the goal didn’t cross the line in normal time but in injury time, in the 91st minute
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3 years
Attached pic of first email @Marthalanefox and I sent to anyone we vaguely knew or thought we knew. In 1998. Breaking GDPR before it existed Email went viral and we thought we might just be onto something. Building an early Internet brand... Thanks Josh Berger for sharing
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8 years
Great kick off yesterday of #cyberbullying taskforce for @KensingtonRoyal with key media/telco and charity leaders
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7 years
£6.8bn Invested in the UK tech sector in 2016 - 2x higher than any other European country. #TechNation
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Congrats to the ⁦ @TechNation ⁩ team (& ⁦ @gerardgrech ⁩ ⁦ @SKellyCEO ⁩) on all the support and insights they have given to U.K. tech founders since 2014. We ⁦ @foundersforum ⁩ are delighted to be in discussion to take over this globally respected entity.
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A momentous day for as it becomes a publicly-traded company on @LSEplc . Congrats to the team past and present. Sharing a few learnings from the story of Made's inception - something of a phoenix from the ashes.
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
UK government announces public/private match funding with convertible loan instrument for seed to later stage companies. 250k-£5m Plus 750m grants @innovateuk To keep UK at forefront of European innovation.
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Brent Hoberman
7 years
Seed fund,with backing from top founders,strategic family offices &CEOs raises $60m to back European tech start-ups
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Totally agree WFH was better than people feared for short term but long term downsides are becoming more apparent. Winter alone at home is less productive than inspiring offices. Let’s make office life safe and great for collaboration
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Luke Johnson
4 years
I suspect many companies and staff will tire of WFH after a while. Corporate culture is hard to maintain over Zoom. Separation of home and work life is difficult. Once winter sets in loneliness and isolation will become more pronounced.
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Brent Hoberman
9 months
Sorry this is embarrassing for the guardian and cynics commenting below. (I was on the guardian board for 9 years and they are investors in founders factory so I get disappointed by the energy they spend on partisan baseless attacks like this article). There really is nothing
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Carol Vorderman
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BREAKING After discovery of £2m from Sunak's Future Fund (as Chancellor) going to FOUR Companies invested in by his wife - Labour asks Standards Committee to investigate Sunak has not declared this & 3 of the firms have gone into administration.
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
UK government must act to help start-ups via @FT Article in FT tonight. Some not close to this sector will argue no support needed. But these are extraordinary times and we believe too many startups that we will need in the future will fail without...
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
Who is advising these people?!!?
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4 years
Love this photo Let's keep it this way #londonisopen Last night Piccadilly
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4 years
Staff who work from home after pandemic 'should pay more tax' Really interesting idea WFH contributes less to economy-not commuting...& if they are knowledge workers who choose to work from home should contribute to those who have no choice (manual etc)
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8 months
Was great to celebrate the arrival of @a16z in London and hear their optimism for the UK. @bhorowitz @sriramk
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1 year
@IsabelOakeshott @Telegraph Seriously if it was the other way round You wouldn’t have felt betrayed?? Why sign an nda if you reserved the right unilaterally to break if you found something you didn’t like … If you were Matt would you think you’d behaved properly?
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“I believe we are the best place in the world to fail,” he writes, “and failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.Lessons from Amazon's Jeff Bezos over the years 1/2
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
UK workers most reluctant to go back to work. What will this look like in September?
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Brent Hoberman
7 years
stem less important than soft skills for Google top employees The seven top characteristics of success at Google r all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others;having empathy ..Good for humanities
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Brent Hoberman
8 years
. @pestononsunday astonished to hear Gove claim entrepreneurs are for Brexit -they are factually massively for #strongerin In tech aprox 90%
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
20 years on from the day Nasdaq peaked in 2000 and we priced the @lastminute .com IPO, as the dotcom bubble burst. (Fastest EU co to IPO, most oversubscribed) Stock down 95% - We recovered! It took a lot of grit & determination & passion to keep a world…
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
"True technology innovation is about your rate of innovation, not how much you are slowing down your competitors" @elonmusk on patents...
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Manish Maheshwari
3 years
Amazing alternate way to think about patents! @elonmusk
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6 years
Great news: significant signal to global entrepreneurs - come to UK. Home secretary Sajid Javid announces new start-up visa route #ffweek
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Great to see the change in career options from U.K. students - 25% of Today’s students want to become/or are startup founders. Congrats ⁦ @foundersfactory ⁩ backed ⁦ @CreatorFund ⁩ & ⁦ @oxfoundry ⁩ on helping drive this Cc ⁦ @reidhoffman
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Brent Hoberman
1 year
Another @LDNTechWeek highlight W @PoppyGustafsson @number10gov Lovely signal to the world that UK is looking to a digital future, building on the best of the past. In binary changed on the famous door to LTW letters.
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Brent Hoberman
8 months
In conversation with @RishiSunak , @elonmusk gave a wide-ranging answer to a question I asked tonight on the coming age of abundance and robotics. He praised the UK as likely to lead in production of AI powered manufacturing robots, which can help workers and lower cost of goods
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3 years
"If you can do your job from anywhere, someone anywhere can do your job" @FT on second order impacts of working from home...
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Useful outline from @hmtreasury of tech support package & #FutureFund announced today. @RishiSunak "Britain is a global leader when it comes to innovation. Our start-ups and businesses driving R&D will help power our growth out of the coronavirus crisis"
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
If you want to see SEIS/EIS matching for U.K. future fund ? Please like or RT ...
@Founders_Forum
Founders Forum Group
4 years
While we wait to hear more developments on the #FutureFund , here's a write-up of the 5 Key Themes from last week's discussion with @innovateuk & @BritishBBank >> << @saveourstartups
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Brent Hoberman
1 year
Relentless work from top of gov and @hmtreasury @bankofengland & @HSBC_UK to get great deal for UK tech & taxpayers on #SVB Thank you @RishiSunak @Jeremy_Hunt @michelledonelan for action and @Dom_Hallas and @Coadec for championing the startup sector …
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Jeremy Hunt
1 year
This morning, the Government and the Bank of England facilitated a private sale of Silicon Valley Bank UK to HSBC Deposits will be protected, with no taxpayer support I said yesterday that we would look after our tech sector, and we have worked urgently to deliver that promise
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
. @atomico report of The record breaking state of European Tech in 2018 is out 15x more unicorns than 10 years ago Records everywhere but questions over diversity and inequalty. But clear entrepreneurship will be key to solving Europe's problems ...
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
. @BillGates a full diary is not a proxy for seriousness.... How to have less meetings in 2019 ...
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Ken Rutkowski
6 years
What Warren Buffett taught Bill Gates about managing time by sharing his (nearly) blank calendar
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
. @Deliveroo float Media coverage a bit bearish Yes clearly issues with market timing, pricing etc But still another UK listed tech co worth circa £5bn shouldn't be seen as a failure. More work to be done on valuations, cornerstones & late repricing
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
Thrilled to launch - a network of free-to-access on-campus coding schools We have a hugely ambitious goal to train 100,000 diverse software engineers by 2030 and provide each graduate with a job guarantee at leading companies
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Wonderful to see continued gov support for uk startups @OliverDowden @RishiSunak This is a meaningful injection to uk tech that will hopefully generate a return for the taxpayer
@BritishBBank
British Business Bank
4 years
565 companies have been approved for £562.3m worth of Convertible Loan Agreements since the #FutureFund scheme was launched. Click here to find out more ▶️
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Brent Hoberman
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Great to be able to announce @Founders_Forum partnership w @MarcBoyan Miroma Group to launch MFN, a media buying agency to support startups and scaleups globally. Getting them most favoured nation deals before they would otherwise!
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Brent Hoberman
7 years
Brent Hoberman has unveiled a new $60 million European startup fund via @BIUK_Tech
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
Significant milestone for @foundersfactory :signs Marks Spencer as exclusive UK retail investor via @techcrunch Callout for ambitious #retailtech startups to join corporate backed accelerator with global reach.
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Brent Hoberman
5 years
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
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Brent Hoberman
2 years
@tezos 's @breitwoman & @Klarna 's @klarnaseb talked how to steer organisations for greatest impact in a Tech For Good panel - great insight. +Enjoyed hearing @taavet ( @Wise ) & @waldec ( @boltapp ) on their coding school - a model we were inspired by when starting @01_Founders !🙌 /4
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Brent Hoberman
5 years
Congrats to stellar #fflondon team who deliver a better experience each year
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Founders Forum Group
5 years
Thank you to everyone who came out and made #ffweek such a wonderful success. We are indebted to our incredible speakers, moderators, guests and sponsors - all without none of this would be possible. Until the next one. #FFLDN
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Brent Hoberman
5 years
. @colorintech have partnered with @google and @microsoft to launch a pre-accelerator program targeted at underrepresented founders. -finding product-market fit, launching your MVP or you just want to learn from leading experts.The link to apply is here -
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
The Future is here Just unevenly distributed!
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
At the end of 2020 @foundersfactory is 5 years on with almost 200 startups in our global portfolio. A great show of resilience this year with 📈 89 new startups, 🚀 50 fundraises, 💵 £80m+ raised, 🔥 17 £1M+ raises incl @Karakuri_tech @Oxwash @_Previse_ @Cosmose_
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Founders Factory
4 years
It’s been a challenging year for startups, especially those in search of capital. Yet, our founders have defied all odds this year. We are closing our fifth operating year with almost 200 startups in our global portfolio and over £80m raised by our startups in 2020 alone 🚀 1/6
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
The beginning of a new adventure
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Founders Factory
6 years
Our new Founders Factory Africa office in Johannesburg. Lots of exciting news to come in the new year. Watch this space. #AfricaTech
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5 years
Technology is a bright spot for British economy - 'The UK should relax visa requirements for highly skilled workers and better train its own citizens' via @FT
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
Norway has set a world record for new electric vehicle sales. 31.2% of all car sales in 2018 were electric.
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Brent Hoberman
8 years
Sunday Times economic outlook - david smith - facts say #strongerin
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Technology investors urge start-ups to return to the office Agreeing w @marksedwill And civil service return to help lead the way And yes I actually do believe creative chaos and learning thrives in office not in zoom
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Brent Hoberman
5 years
I wrote this for the @FT today: A road map for Brexit Britain to strengthen its tech appeal : space/skills/attract talent & make UK best place for corporates & startups to work together cc @foundersfactory @Founders_Forum @firstminutecap
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Personally delighted that ⁦ @demishassabis ⁩ & Marc Warner of FacultyAI helping government make decisions on covid If not alt headline: Gov refuses advise of world leading data scientists! Google executive took part in Sage meeting, tech firm confirms
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
Good to talk to @Telegraph about @made @lastminute_com and why optimists see the future, bet on it and always do better than the cynics
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
Shared thoughts with @financialtimes on why it's time to shake up UK listings rules. Having led through a rollercoaster IPO precisely at the point the dot-com bubble burst, why would I encourage more tech companies to go public?
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
@HarryStebbings But let's be careful not to define too many rules from our own anecdotes. We all do. But the right partner for many will have lead them to succeed where they might have failed without. I find it very hard to give generic advice without a health warning that it's personal...
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
Great to see @madedotcom announce £40m raise to fuel further expansion. Congrats to team. Great journey since incubation at mydeco offices. Could it become Europe’s next ecommerce unicorn?
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Brent Hoberman
5 years
Brent Hoberman: “European Founders Need To Work 10x Harder Than American Rivals” via @forbes European founders have to work harder as barriers to scaling across Europe need to be overcome. Agree?
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Brent Hoberman
5 years
. @foundersfactory going live in Paris starting w @avivaplc Hiring 50 for top team. @albinserviant joins as MD founders factory Paris. Ambitious entrepreneurs should apply. Fintech first sector. More soon Factory now live in London/Paris/Jo'Burg
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Brent Hoberman
1 year
Thanks to our new investors : Slack’s Cal Henderson and Sir Richard Branson back firstminute Capital's third fund via @techcrunch #Londontechweek #foundersforum
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Brent Hoberman
2 years
🧵 #LondonTechWeek Thread! Monday, Day 1 @LDNTechWeek kicks off with @foundersfactory announcing their new £100m Planet Fund, backed by @skyuk - well done team! @Founders_Forum Group CEO, @carolyndawson_ , gave a warmly-received opening address before a surprise appearance.../1
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Brent Hoberman
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1/ A momentous day for the @Founders_Forum Group. Today, our consulting arm, @FoundersIntel , was acquired by @Accenture . I always enjoy reminiscing about the founding moments of a company... so thought I'd share
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Good news for UK tech: . @FT analysis suggests the tech sector will be the biggest beneficiary of the new UK points-based system, as well as the removal of a cap on the number of top scientists, researchers and mathematicians who will be able to come to the UK.
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Brent Hoberman
7 years
Congrats to all the UK tech figures named in the Queen's New Year's Honours list via @sai @JdR_Tech @demishassabis , Johnathan Goodwin, Suranga, Jess Butcher ...
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Brent Hoberman
8 years
#cyberbullying team in full flow w Google,Snapchat,TalkTalk,Virgin,BT,O2 all keen to work for better solutions
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
*9 large technology companies are acquiring most of the global AI startups. Google tops the list 14 acquisitions 2010 to 2018. Others on the list include Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, Twitter, and Salesforce; the social monitoring firm Meltwater also made the list
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Brent Hoberman
8 years
UK tech is open and shocked by anti-immigrant rhetoric
@foundersfactory
Founders Factory
8 years
To @AmberRudd_MP from the @foundersfactory team: We’re building some of the most exciting #tech businesses ever. Together. #AmberRudd
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3 years
Stat of the day: 2x daily trade volume in Apple shares alone than on entire London stock exchange.... Our work in UK is not done...
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
Great overview of the momentum behind founders factory via @businessinsider
@foundersfactory
Founders Factory
6 years
“In two years, Founders Factory has facilitated 60 pilots between startups and corporates. Around 20 have turned into paid projects and the startups have gone on to raise almost £100 million in further backing.” @brenthoberman speaks to @businessinsider
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
Thrilled to have been one the first angel investors to have backed Europe's latest unicorn @avec_alan @jcsamuelian Had the passion,smarts, integrity and drive to be a magnet for talent from the start. Improving health across Europe. Cc @plaffont
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
Silicon Valley-style companies are now being created in many places other than SV. Eu has unicorns in 65 cities. In 10 🇪🇺 countries– the UK, Fr, DACH, Sw,Nl,Spain, Fin, Den,Nor– startups raised more in the 1st half 2021 than in any previous full yr
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Brent Hoberman
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Great news for UK tech! Mike Lynch founder of Autonomy, key baker of Luminance and Darktrace and ⁦ @InvokeCapital ⁩ cleared. Many UK tech founders looked up to Mike and will be happy to see him cleared. @FT
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
"Europe has no VC-entrepreneur ecosystem. The entrepreneurs in Europe are nowhere near as innovative as the American ones " @kaifulee .There is a counter-narrative: euro founders need to be 10x better
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Good news for EU startups EU to relax state aid rules that hindered support for start-ups - via @FT
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Brent Hoberman
9 years
. @ericschmidt at #fflondon "once computers overtake humans. Humans never catch up" http://t.co/y8RgPLhC45
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3 years
'And yet, study after study shows that people working from home are more stressed and less happy. The model has proven to create more disruption, less productivity and diminished innovation.'
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Brent Hoberman
4 years
Encouraging smoke signals for UK startups in the FT this am. Getting the structure right will key of course. Ministers eye rescue package for start-up industry - via @FT
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Brent Hoberman
7 years
Without the possibility of failure there is no success. Finland has a #DayForFailure to celebrate learning from our mistakes #BragForFinland “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -Robert F. Kennedy cc @ipaananen @SlushHQ @KoponenPetteri @ilkkakivimaki
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Brent Hoberman
1 year
Fantastic news for UK tech Well done to all those who made it happen Esp HSBC team and gov and BoE
@Jeremy_Hunt
Jeremy Hunt
1 year
This morning, the Government and the Bank of England facilitated a private sale of Silicon Valley Bank UK to HSBC Deposits will be protected, with no taxpayer support I said yesterday that we would look after our tech sector, and we have worked urgently to deliver that promise
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53 Women-Led Startups Disrupting HealthTech Cc ⁦ @FFHealthTech ⁩ ⁦ @drjackUK ⁩ ⁦ @accelerate_HER ⁩ ⁦ @Founders_Forum ⁩ Great to see Kate Ryder of Maven Health lead the field.
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Brent Hoberman
7 years
It's those experts back at it again...
@TheEconomist
The Economist
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Among economists, there is near-universal acceptance that immigration generates huge benefits
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Brent Hoberman
8 years
Aviva To Invest In @factoryfounders Excited to announce our 4th corporate partner #fintech
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Brent Hoberman
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Congrats to #AISafetySummit team Great evening to see @RishiSunak w @elonmusk who addressed the opportunities of AI & hailed the UK as one of the top 2 global AI centres of excellence. He said was key to have China there. He said 80% we enter a world of abundance. Ie
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Rishi Sunak
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My conversation with @elonmusk 👇
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Brent Hoberman
7 years
. @marissamayer & James Manyika at #fflondon #AccelerateHER Great insights:first interview post Yahoo sale
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
The inaugural Inspiring 50 UK list celebrates cool women in STEM Congrats to all and @accelerate_HER
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1 year
Nutmeg co-founder Nick Hungerford dies aged 43, months after setting up charity Super impressive, human & founder and legacy he leaves his daughter and others The charity Elizabeth’s Smile
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Brent Hoberman
3 years
Exciting new chapter for as the company announces its expected intention to float
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Brent Hoberman
6 years
Great to host @mounir France's digital minister @foundersfactory : brainstorming with top startups on to effectively expand to France. cc @Founders_Forum @FoundersIntel @founders_future @FoundersPledge @founders_keeprs
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