Comments on: Big push to increase the number of Entrepreneurs https://www.companypartners.com/blog/2012/11/12/big-push-to-increase-the-number-of-entrepreneurs/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Bringing business partners together Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:45:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David Wogel https://www.companypartners.com/blog/2012/11/12/big-push-to-increase-the-number-of-entrepreneurs/comment-page-1/#comment-4646 David Wogel Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:54:53 +0000 http://www.companypartners.com/blog/?p=923#comment-4646 The best thing the government can do to help SME’s is to take the tax off employment and improve education. When will they realise that they are taxing us to be uncompetitive in the global business enviornment, which effects all business in the end. The USA has cheap energy and Asia has cheap motivated, educated and engaged labour, what do we have ???

]]> By: Ray Chapman https://www.companypartners.com/blog/2012/11/12/big-push-to-increase-the-number-of-entrepreneurs/comment-page-1/#comment-4642 Ray Chapman Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:35:38 +0000 http://www.companypartners.com/blog/?p=923#comment-4642 Never, ever, whatever the circumstances (or how desperate you are!) have anything to do with any Government schemes of any shape or kind now or at any time in the future. If the Government could even just run ‘the government’ then that would be a miracle in itself -

]]> By: Lee Tracey https://www.companypartners.com/blog/2012/11/12/big-push-to-increase-the-number-of-entrepreneurs/comment-page-1/#comment-4616 Lee Tracey Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:36:03 +0000 http://www.companypartners.com/blog/?p=923#comment-4616 Credit to Company Partners for providing this type of valuable information and comments.  The government approach however is pretty dismal.  I remember the cock-up of appointing Lord Sugar as an “enterprise overlord” – Sugar was a total disaster and waste of time and these new efforts suggest that we are still going down the same old negative pathways.  All they are creating is another bunch of expensive time wasters who will only talk the talk and write the write of masses of paper which will never achieve anything.  They need to appoint and fund a real go-getter along the lines of MET Commissioner Brenden Hogan-Howe.

BHH has set up a sort of “Come And Meet Us” day so that anybody or any firm, small or large, can attend at a venue and “pitch” their ideas and or products to the MET police force.  There are no fees or charges and all you have to do is pre-pitch to a panel who sort the worthwhile from the pointless.  At the first venue in London companies as large as Thales had a table next to a one-man band entrepreneur and BHH stopped and chatted to every participant and his staff and officers also followed through.

The government could do a similar “enterprise!” two-or three day event whereby they provided the venue free of charge.  Identified about  50 of the top venture capital companies such as Company Partners.  Allowed each one to screen and select ( without charge ) about ten successful applicants and issued free invitations to as many investors as possible.

At the venue each “Angel” company would mount its own pavilion and support its ten chosen
entrepreneurs. The “Angel” companies would mentor its chosen ten and would contract to receive a stated percentage of any of its ten who raised money due to the event.

Such an event would be a much more positive use of government cash than groups set up to talk the talk.

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