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How to Turn Startup Ideas into Reality by Taking Money from Strangers
Summary
Ian Brookes provides advice to startups on how to convince venture capitalists to invest in their business.
Bio
Ian Brookes started his career with Price Waterhouse, subsequent to which he founded his own management consulting firm specializing in corporate finance for SMEs. Today he is a director of Cake Solutions, an enterprise software developer with offices in Manchester and Oxford, with a focus on building Cake Invest, an investment vehicle supporting start-up high-tech businesses.
About the conference
Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.