Amazing article. Makes one think: why in the world would anyone start a new business in the UK?
Christopher Snowdon@cjsnowdon
We lack the words to describe our current economic model. Link below.
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Paul Heydon
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Investor backing world class founders (any sector and stage) & funds (any asset class) in Western Europe and North America. Early in @supercell @unity @getnuman
London, United Kingdom Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@andyantiles_ I think Ken Griffin would have a different view. He started Citadel with $4.6m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_C…
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$19m hedge fund is a joke
You’re not making money on anything sub $100m
2% management fees on $19m is $380k
That doesn’t even cover regulatory fees
Ryan@DodgysDD
I was invited to the New York Stock Exchange yesterday for a conference and believe it or not I met an ICT trader who manages over 19 million dollars for his own hedge fund he started I thought he was trolling about ICT because I wouldn’t expect someone to have said that at the New York Stock Exchange but man I was wrong Talked to him for about 30 minutes and he basically told me he trades HTF FVG reactions and rejection blocks The methodology ICT teaches is still relatively new and I think in 5-10 years this won’t be surprising anymore Once the new generation of traders starts filling in these high end financial jobs including at the exchange I think liquidity sweeps and these other concepts will start to filter in little by little Amazing to see!
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Interesting point i did not know. For those in London and suffering from the strike then you can thank Labour
Samuel Hughes@SCP_Hughes
In 2023, TfL was given powers to require 40% service during strikes. Similar systems exist in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and elsewhere. (In New York, transit strikes are simply banned.) The current Government abolished these powers upon coming to office. Londoners should remember that this week's transport chaos flows from a political choice, and could easily have been mitigated by following normal international practice.
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Fantastic sales campaign idea
Sam Blond@samdblond
1/ The best outbound campaign we ever ran at Brex (75% demo rate, 75% demo to close): Brex launched in 2018 as the first corporate card for startups. After launch, when we were still ~30 employees and near 0 rev, we ran the most successful outbound campaign I've ever seen.
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3 YEARS and BT still hasn’t fixed this?! 😡
Almost 3 years ago we accidentally nicked our neighbour’s phone line (nothing to do with us). BT came out, slapped in this ‘temporary’ fix… and just left it.
It’s still here. Messy. Dangling. Unsafe. Wires everywhere — proper trip hazard and looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
Watch the video 👇 You’ll see exactly how bad it is.
@bt_uk — this is NOT acceptable. When are you actually going to come back and do the job properly?
Has anyone else been left with a BT ‘temporary’ fix that’s been permanent for years? Drop your stories below 👇 and tag a friend who’s had the same nightmare!
#BTFail #BTCustomerService #BTComplaint #Openreach #UKBroadband #CustomerServiceFail
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Some founders do this same thing with small investors be it vc’s or angel investors and don’t allow pro rata or don’t even share the opportunity to invest more. And some gps don’t share all their spv’s with all their lps even early ones. Same folks reach out only if they want something. So much for loyalty. Going forward will have to ask for side letters for above.
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Hearing more stories of GPs dropping early LPs after success to “upgrade” their LP base in later funds.
If you do this, you suck.
Those early LPs took real risk on you and your success was only possible because of them.
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@Deliveroo Delivery showed up 101 minutes after order so I refused delivery as I had made my own dinner by then. False advertising when it says 25-50 mins and then takes 101 mins. Never gave me option to cancel order when restaurant knew it would take that long.
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@Deliveroo I placed an order at 1923 for a meal from Tsunami in London. Had a chat online with one of your agents and they just cut me off. I don’t want the order as it’s now been almost 90 minutes. Cancel it and refund me
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@Deliveroo See attached receipt with order number and copy of my last chat with mark joseph.
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@HarryStebbings Harry, this quote sums it up:
“A nation’s reputation is built slowly and destroyed quickly.” — Winston Churchill
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Keir Starmer has done worse than make us a laughing stock; he has made the UK totally irrelevant.
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To @AmazonUK what’s happening with your delivery driver quality? We were home all day and evening. First order was delivered to neighbour across the street without attempting to deliver to us. 2nd order said attempted delivery at 1059pm. Both drivers lied and we have proof as we have an outside security camera. First time for these issues to happen. HR needs work on better driver recruitment otherwise you will start losing customers.
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Paul Heydon retweetledi
Do not buy @teapigs or many other brand of teabags if you value your health and are trying to avoid plastic’s as much as you can!! dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
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Paul Heydon retweetledi
We couldn’t be happier to have @collabfund on board.
Matt has written this great blog post explaining the reasoning behind their investment.
collabfund.com/blog/backing-a…
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Congrats to @christianbowens and all the team at @clovefi The team and opportunity are so amazing that I invested as an angel investor for first time in 3 years
Christian Owens@christianbowens
Today, I’m delighted to announce @CloveFi, and our $14m pre-seed led by @Accel, with @Kindred_VC and @airstreet. It’s been 2 years since I left Paddle, and in that time, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what’s next. Over the last 10+ years, I’ve always tried to imagine what a financial institution built for this century would look like, and that’s what we’re building at Clove. For all the progress in consumer technology, the way in which we get guidance around our finances has barely changed. There are products to move money, and make investments, but not to answer the questions that matter – the ones about timing, trade-offs, and planning for the future. At Clove, we aim to be the partner for your whole financial life. Combining AI and humans to deliver this at an unprecedented scale. We’re early on what will be a long journey, and hiring across many roles — if you’re passionate about playing a part in building the financial institution of the future, we’d love to hear from you.
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Renee, they are trying delay and deny. It’s complete rubbish. Called them 3x since May to sort our leak. Came once in May and did not even bothering ringing our doorbell. We now have physical evidence that the leak is coming from their meter and it’s a big leak. My plumber says they are playing these games with lots of customers all over London. Someone in the press needs to blow up what i think is a big story of Thames Water playing every trick to not fix meters and forcing customers to pay all the crazy bills until the day that will never come. I did get them lock in £50 per month payment rather than the 100’s per month they wanted. Try ceoofficeteam@thameswater.co.uk
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So I have spoken to Thames Water; They can apparently see that there is a leak from the smart meter they fitted without my knowledge 3 years ago.
I have to pay a plumber to come to my house and confirm what I know (that i don't have an internal leak) before they will then find the external leak!!
So I have to do all the work to get @thameswater to sort it out.
Renée Hoenderkamp@DrHoenderkamp
Water bill 6 months to April £148 Water bill 6 months to Oct £614 How are people supposed to cope with these increases in every single area of life...
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Here is their case study with Azuna: trymaverick.com/case-studies/h…
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I don’t usually post petitions, but this one matters. Digital ID cards in the UK are back on the table — and they’re a serious risk to privacy and freedom.
👉 1.2 million+ people have already signed.
👉 It’s heading for a full debate in Parliament.
If you live in the uk and care about limiting government overreach and protecting your privacy, add your name here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7301…
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