In this podcast Katy Tuncer talks authentically with Peter about her proudest failure, a start-up called Ready Steady Mums. She talks about the lessons she learned and how she brings them into her work today coaching entrepreneurs and other business leaders.
Ready Steady Mums is a community movement supported by the Institute of Health Visiting, Health Visitors and other medical professionals working with mothers in pregnancy and beyond.
Read MoreEvery week The Sunday Times talk to a business angel, one of the early-stage investors who collectively inject £1.5bn a year into British start-ups. Peter Evans, Enterprise and Small Business editor for The Sunday Times, interviewed one of those business angels and an invested investor, Peter Cowley.
This article is a copy of Peter Evans report for the newspaper, it was released on November 5th 2017.
Read MoreAlex Schey co-founded Vantage Power. Peter and Alex chat about how Vantage Power took shape, the importance of a business plan and much more.
Vantage power designs and manufactures technology used in hybrid powertrains for new buses, as well as a retrofit solution for buses already on the road. Vantage Power's most recent award came in the form of the 'Most Distruptive Tech' at the UK British Angels Assocation awards 2017.
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Gordon MacSween has enjoyed a successful career in industry, having studied engineering at Cambridge and then eschewed the more common path of a career in the City. After working as a production manager in the UK and Germany, he gained an MBA at Insead before passing up another common career path - in management consulting - to return once again to manufacturing. His last two roles were as Director of an £80m division at e2v plc, and then running his own £0.2m start-up in ad tech. He has learnt plenty from the transition.
Read MoreSimon Thorpe was UKBAA Angel Investor of the Year 2016/17. He has an investment portfolio of close to 30 early stage tech companies and has achieved 5 exits including Swiftkey, CMOS Sensors, VocalIQ and CentraStage.
Simon has had some hugely rewarding business journeys, both financially and personally and continues to be an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs. He has made a career out of his passion for backing aspiring entrepreneurs creating innovative disruptive technologies. Angel Investing is an endurance race not a Grand Prix!
Read MoreJohn Halfpenny returns to explain the 3 key things he looks for in an investment. Having invested in .... businesses over ... years, he has fine tuned his investment criteria. In this articles he explores his 3 main reasons for investing or not investing in a business.
Read MoreAlex Schey shares 3 of the most valuable lessions he has learnt since starting a business. The extracts below are taken from a speech Alex made to The Royal Academy of Engineering JC Gammon Launchpad finalists, in which he shared his business journey to the entrepreneurial programmes participants.
Read MoreJohn Halfpenny is an entrepreneur and investor with 30+ years experience in starting companies, working for corporations and angel investing. Here he outlines the 4 things he wished he'd known before setting up his first company.
Read MorePeter Cowley introduces The Invested Investor podcast series, with the help of Chris Smith from The Naked Scientists. The two entrepreneurs will talk about why Peter decided to start the podcast series, what his background is and why he feels it will be a success.
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