Things I wish I'd known...

The BVCA, together with NESTA, have approached 16 highly successful technology entrepreneurs, many of them involved in spinouts from universities, to provide a short letter addressed to an unknown aspirant tech entrepreneur under the title of ‘things I wished I'd known!’.

We’ll be publishing 1 article a week on our website over the coming months - starting from tomorrow - and I really recommend you take a look. We’ve ended up with some extraordinarily honest insights on what it is really like when you are at the coalface trying to build a technology business.

Just to give you a flavour…

• Steve Purdham  - founded SurfControl –a global internet security company that recently sold for $400million
• Peter Denyer – he is the founder of a spin out that makes millions of those little cameras in mobile phones
• David Tatchell – founded Flomerics that now employees more that 200 people in 12 countries

I plan on commenting on some of the insights along the way and it would be great to hear any other takes on the articles.