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Marc was editor of GrowthBusiness from 2006 to 2010. He specialised in writing about entrepreneurs, private equity and venture capital, mid-market M&A, small caps and high-growth businesses.

Entrepreneurs

Bad Month: Take-Two Interactive

Take-Two Interactive Software, developer of the controversial Grand Theft Auto series, has announced that it will be undertaking significant job cuts in an effort to return to profit.

Entrepreneurs

Good Month: Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British physicist who created the World Wide Web, has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK’s most prestigious honours.

Entrepreneurs

Pesticides you can eat

The quest for effective pesticides free of chemical nasties has been going for years. Now TyraTech, an American research company which floated on AIM this month, believes it has the answer.

Entrepreneurs

The Toshiba Portégé R400-100

If you appreciate the beautiful things in life and go weak at the knees over sleek design, this should get your heart racing.

Entrepreneurs

Singing from the same hymnsheet

Social entrepreneurship may call to mind images of determined businesspeople turning their talents to good causes.

Entrepreneurs

Todd Hannula: All in a good cause

For Todd Hannula, success wasn’t enough. A former salesman, dotcom entrepreneur and ‘corporate boob’, as he puts it, Hannula was pursuing a lucrative career in the US when in the summer of 2005 he decided to give it all up.

Venture Capital Funding

XL TechGroup Incubator – The alternative business funding strategy

Disenchanted with academia and disillusioned by VCs, entrepreneur John Scott decided to throw the funding rulebook out the window.

News

CEO leads Lambert Smith Hampton buy-out

The chief executive of property agency Lambert Smith Hampton is to buy the company with two of his fellow directors.

News

Property chief leads Lambert Smith Hampton buy-out

The chief executive of property agency Lambert Smith Hampton has agreed to buy the company with two of his fellow directors.

News

Veryan Medical raises £3.1 million

Veryan Medical, a developer of devices to improve the long-term medical care of patients with vascular disease, has raised £3.1 million from a second funding round.

News

New JPMorgan fund raises £25 million

A recently established Guernsey incorporated fund has raised millions of pounds to invest after it completed a double admission.

Growth Planning

Acquisitions are the most effective way of expansion

Businesses may seek organic growth but acquisitions are the most effective way of expansion. But acquisition strategies can easily fail if handled incorrectly.