Day: March 25, 2025

When it comes to building high-performing companies, both private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investors know that talent is the ultimate differentiator. Yet, many firms still take a reactive approach to hiring—waiting until a leadership gap appears before scrambling to fill it.This mindset is a missed opportunity. The best firms treat portfolio hiring as…

Having watched yesterday’s chancellor’s statement, I felt sorry that she had nowhere to go except to diminish the disadvantaged. For the Labour party to be doing this is extraordinary. There are 12 million small businesses in the UK and most of them are, from a tax point of view,  stitched up super tight but I do…