It is a classic of adventure books that if you want to hide then go up a tree, as most people’s eyes are firmly fixed on the ground immediately in front of them.

It has been a busy few years for healthcare and covid has accelerated interest in the windfall landing on the sector.

The fascinating webinar by Patrick Sheehan from ETF with Uli Grabenwarter and Christian Motzfeldt on Europe's green deal plans indicated how far knocked off course the European Union’s budget has been by covid.

The shift from molecules to electrons driving transformation in the energy industry has to cover a number of hurdles to meaningfully move the world to net zero and even reduce carbon in the atmosphere.

The first rule of management is avoiding demotivating people.

The what-if school of history has a new moment to consider. What if Jack Ma, founder of china-based online retailer Alibaba and its financial services spin-off Ant Group, had decided against speaking at the Bund Finance Summit in Shanghai?

Entrepreneurs have traditionally looked for five things from their investors: capital, customers, product development, hiring and, eventually, an exit. Getting customer feedback as quickly as possible has been well-understood thanks to professor Steve Blank and author Eric Ries’s work at the start of the past decade and built into the National Science Foundation’s i-corps platform. But making it a reality is still challenging.

“The door is always open for a second and third [Vision] fund, but we’re not very popular,” according to Masayoshi Son, founder of Japan-listed internet conglomerate SoftBank in the Financial Times.

It is always worthwhile listening to really smart people – one of the perks of the job on Global Corporate Venturing, Global Impact Venturing (GIV) and Global University Venturing (GUV) is that basically means everyone in our network – as they engage in making the world a better place.

There are few seeming certainties in life – death, taxes and lawsuits over a US election being some.