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Social Media – The Hidden Risks and How to Protect Your Business

Social media has gripped the business world as the “new way” to identify new customers, build market awareness and generate increasing long term sales. However, the reality is that most company owners are still trying to understand the benefits that social media could bring to their businesses, and the differences between the vast numbers of […]

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Seeing the Wood for the Trees – Critical Success Factors

Do you often feel in business that you ‘can’t see the wood for the trees?’ When workloads increase and multiple deadlines are fast approaching it is often difficult to assess what is really important and what should wait.  Understanding what business activities create the maximum value in your company is absolutely critical. It sounds completely […]

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Campbell Ventures Advises Enterprise M3 on Strategically Important Businesses

Enterprise M3 – one of the new Local Economic Partnerships (LEP) has retained Campbell Ventures to help them identify strategically important businesses in the LEP’s area. The Enterprise M3 LEP covers the wider M3 corridor from the New Forest in the South West to Staines in the North East, and includes major centres such as […]

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Mike Campbell Appointed as Interim Chief Executive at Futuresource Consulting Limited

Mike Campbell, Managing Director of Campbell Ventures was appointed as the Interim Chief Executive of Futuresource Consulting Limited today. Mike’s appointment as Interim Chief Executive in the company will primarily focus on working with the Board of Directors to prepare the company for its next phase of international growth and the delivery of a program […]

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Patents – Are They a Waste of Money? Or Are They Structured Correctly?

A well respected patent lawyer in the technology field once said that “90% of patents held by businesses backed by venture capital investors are worthless.” How could this be? Surely savvy venture capital investors are experienced in assessing the value and strength of patents, isn’t this part of their job? Campbell Ventures has discovered that […]

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Up in the Cloud

Interestingly it is the small and medium sized business community that are embracing the benefits of cloud computing at a faster rate than some of the larger and even multi-international companies. Benefits including cost reduction and more regular/ faster upgrade cycles are often cited as the main reasons to adopt this technology. Cloud computing is […]

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Beijing’s Zhongguancun Area – The Next Silicon Valley?

Dubbed as “China’s Silicon Valley” the country’s largest high-tech park in west Beijing is not only home to Chinese high-tech companies like Lenovo, Baidu and Sohu.com, it is also the China headquarters of leading global companies like Google, Microsoft and Intel. Part of the Chinese government’s plans to develop an innovative economy, the State Council […]

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