Investor Pulse
2002/3 Business Angel Survey by GEIF and c2Ventures, two leading technology oriented business angel networks

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Angels: Who, Why and How?
by Dr David Harper, Biocontrol Ltd

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Angel to VC - the next link in the chain
by TTP Ventures

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Should Angels Fear to Tread?
by John Dix, Bill Thatcher and Tim Tyndall
Three partners from Hewitson Becke + Shaw look at some of the mistakes commonly made by young companies which can have real implications for company value.
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The Angel Investment Process
Three well established business angels share some of their advice and experience on investing in start-ups.
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Raising Funds the Easy Way
by Peter Brewer, CEO, Weather Risk Advisory Ltd
One year after WRA made their presentation, Peter Brewer assesses the success of fund-raising through GEIF business angels.
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Recruiting for Success
Recruitment consultants Bailey Fisher look at how start-up companies can ensure they have a head start by getting the right people on their team.
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Investors in People
by Guy Mulley, Head of NWBrown Employee Benefits
Concerned about employee share schemes? Guy Mulley continues his look at some of the issues GEIF investors might encounter.
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Breakfast Meeting is Plain Sailing
by Grant Hawthorne
Charismatic consultant Humphrey Walters addressed the June Breakfast Meeting - telling how he testing his management theories to destruction on the toughest boat race in the world. GEIF Manager Grant Hawthorne gives his reaction.
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A Budget for the Enterprise Economy
by David Oliver
The Chancellor's budget was crafted with a view to encouraging entrepreneurs. David Oliver looks at how it will impact on those who work for or run growing companies - as well as the business angels who invest in them.
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E-commerce – Do it or die
by Peter White
'E-commerce. Do it or die. Just wait and see,' says Peter White, Chairman of the Cambridge-based international marketing company YTKO. 'See your customers move to your competitors. See your competitive edge disappearing, and see your expensive branding destroyed. See your products shunned as too expensive, and your support as slow and unresponsive. And meanwhile, all those e-businesses will be laughing all the way to the online bank.
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The Bioscience Innovation Centre
Taking Bioscience into the new millennium by David Best
Cambridge has the largest biotechnology cluster in Europe, but in the past has had surprisingly limited facilities for budding biotech entrepreneurs. All of that is to change with the opening of the Bioscience Innovation Centre - Europe's first fully-mentored biotechnology business incubator.
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Programme for Entrepreneurs:
Training up Britain's 'Generation X'
Is entrepreneurship teachable?
That question has been posed many times in recent years as 'entrepreneurship' has been identified by industrial gurus, academics and politicians as the cornerstone of a knowledge-based economy.
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Protecting your IPR – a top priority
by Tom McGuire, Head of the Innovation & Technology Group at Taylor Vinters
Although entrepreneurs have many demands on their time, and sorting out the legal formalities of their businesses may not be top priority, it is vitally important to protect a company's intellectual property rights from the very beginning.
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Cambridge company unveils life-saving diagnostic
by Thomas Carter
Astron Clinica, which presented at the May '99 GEIF presentation day as Optiscan Limited, unveiled its skin cancer diagnosis product at the British Melanoma Group conference in January. Helped by investors from GEIF, the company raised over £300k to complete the development of the SIAscope.
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