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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.

Company Flotations

Our float experience – Listing on the London Stock Exchange case study

The UK's second largest leather sofa retailer, Land of Leather, floated in July 2005 in a tough retail climate.

Entrepreneurs

The value of business mentoring

Helping business start-ups is a rewarding activity for many retired entrepreneurs and (since selling his own company) it has even become the principal activity for Derek Barr, a business angel with a keen interest in early-stage ventures.

News

Optos opts for main over AIM

Optos, a leading medical technology company, joined London's main market in February 2006 and raised £30 million in primary proceeds in the process. But why did it go main, rather than to AIM?

Technology

Business cards go electronic

The days of scrabbling through a pile of business cards to find one contact could be numbered, with the launch of a software program that sends electronic business cards direct to visitors’ mobile phones.

Human Resources

Sex, love and dress codes

More than half of British bosses think it is not an abuse of power to have a relationship with a more junior colleague, while almost a quarter of businesswomen have been groped by a senior colleague or a client, according to a new survey from the Aziz Corporation.

Human Resources

Play has a positive impact on creativity at work

Next time you spend a little more than your lunch hour larking around with your colleagues, don't feel too guilty. Professor Babis Mainemelis of London Business School has identified two fundamental ways in which play has a positive impact on creativity at work.

Venture Capital Funding

VCT backing for smooth operator

Surgical robot developer Armstrong Healthcare has concluded a £1.3 million funding round, backed by a series of investors led by VCT funds Hygea and Oxford Technology.

Growth Planning

The Golden Rules of company acquisitions

Many company acquisitions fail to deliver their anticipated benefits owing to poor post-deal implementation, lack of planning or shoddy due diligence. Follow the golden rules and your chances of a positive outcome should be greatly increased.

Human Resources

Employing older staff

With average life expectancies increasing, birth rates falling and the pension system under more and more strain, most of us have accepted that we will be working further into our old age than previous generations.

News

Gresham’s Swift buyout

Swift Technical, a specialist recruitment and relocation firm servicing the oil and gas sectors, has been acquired by its management in a deal backed by Gresham Private Equity.

Human Resources

Q&A: Autocratic management and bullying

What can I do if my boss is sarcastic and puts me down a lot in front of my colleagues? I'm not sure it constitutes bullying but it is really getting to me and affecting my work, which makes it worse.

Entrepreneurs

Investing in China: Carte Blanche

A combination of energy and work ethic attracted greeting card business Carte Blanche to China and chairman Stephen Haines has nothing but good to say about his experience of doing business in the country.