Grow and Evolve Your Business

Authors

Jonathan Reuvid (ed)

Keywords:

business, economy, intellectual property, business law, entrepreneurs, start ups, innovation

Synopsis

As 2022 progresses, the legacy of the Covid pandemic coupled with the after-effects of Brexit on trade and supply chains and rising energy costs have compounded business leaders' problems. Any 'new normal' is not yet within our grasp. Established businesses, start-ups or early-stage companies will need resilience and flexibility in recalibrating their offerings or completely reconfiguring their business plans. In all cases, innovation and flair are key.

In Grow and Evolve Your Business contributors look at these problems from two directions. Part One focuses on the development of entrepreneurial skills and tools for growth generation and includes a dissertation on the severe risks to cybersecurity daily afflicting all growing businesses.

Part Two reminds us of management fundamentals and the threats that can trip us up and ambush corporate growth. New business owners and managers need to take this advice on board and managers of established businesses are invited to take the time to revisit current practice. The book offers directions through which companies can ‘build back better.’

Chapters

  • List of Contributors
    Margit Hoehne, Natalia Korek, Nigel Adams, Vijay Rathour, Julia May, Gary McGonagle, Carrie de Silva, James Timothy Taylor, Nick Ioannou, Paula Mugisa, Mark Graves, Karren Whitely-Brooks, Gregor Kleinknecht, Jonathan Reuvid, Agnieska Musial
  • Developing and Maintaining an Entrepreneurial Mindset
    Jonathan Reuvid

Author Biographies

Jonathan Reuvid

 Jonathan Reuvid is Editor-in-Chief of University of Buckingham Press and a partner in Legend Times Group. He has been writing and editing books on international trade and investment for more than 25 years and has more than 90 editions of over 35 titles to his name as editor and part-author including The Handbook of International Trade, The Handbook of World Trade, Managing Cybersecurity Risk and business guides to China, the 10 countries that joined the EU in 2004, South Africa and Morocco. Before taking up a second career in business publishing Jonathan was Director of European Operations of the manufacturing subsidiaries of a Fortune 500 multinational. From 1984 to 2005 he engaged in joint venture development and start-ups in China. He is President of the charity, Community First Oxfordshire.

James Timothy Taylor, Whitespace and Innovators Highway

James Timothy Taylor is a partner in Whitespace and Innovators Highway. He is a senior banker and corporate manager having worked in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East for multi-national banks, asset managers and fintech organisations. These international experiences provide perspective on producing for our clients bespoke business plans and Investment Memorandums. He advises clients and investors on protecting and participating in Intellectual Property, which can "make a difference." Having managed private bankers on three continents his global contacts provide valuable partnerships to our entrepreneurs. The experience of guiding family offices and introducing asset managers increases the professionalism necessary to provide capitalisation of our best ideas.

Vijay Rathour, Grant Thornton LLP

Vijay Rathour is a partner at Grant Thornton UK LLP where he is head of the Digital Forensics Group. He has managed data breaches ranging from limited but highly sensitive losses of data by government agencies to the theft of over $100 million through intrusion and manipulation of SWIFT systems in a client bank. Vijay works at the interface of legal and clinical teams, providing experience in strategic guidance and crisis management, regularly reporting to Boards and oversight committees. He is an ethical hacker and enjoys a role on the Committee of the Cybercrime Practitioners Association. He is also engaged by the Ministry of Justice to re-draft the Civil Procedure Rules on Electronic Disclosure and Investigative techniques for the modern era.

Agnieska Musial, Basck

Agnieska Musial is an IP strategist and General Manager of the EU Office of Basck, an Intellectual Property Consultancy specialising in building commercially focused IP portfolios for fast-growing brands and tech companies. Her focus is on assisting clients to build their international portfolios. Agnieska holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Wroclaw and is on the path to qualify as a Polish patent and trademark attorney and European trademark and design attorney.

Paula Mugisa, Tessa Advisory Services

Paula Mugisa is a business development consultant and business coach for mainly African female entrepreneurs, with over 10 years’ experience in supporting MSMEs to ideate, start and grow businesses. She has coached over 4000 entrepreneurs through free webinars and paid programmes offered by Teesa Advisory services, of which Paula is the sole founder, that creates online business resources for Entrepreneurs. In 2020, Teesa launched their Online Small Business Fundamentals Course for African Entrepreneurs / Titandike Course which is already being used by 90 entrepreneurs. Paula helped design the Small Business Curriculum initiated by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Uganda and funded by the Master Card Foundation. She has successfully managed business development and enterprise projects on behalf of the United National Development Programme Uganda, TMR International Hospital, Ultimate Adventures Africa and Post Man Uganda among others. Paula is a Business Enterprise graduate from the University of Buckingham with First Class Honours and was top of her class/cohort in her graduating year. She is an Innovation Award winner of the Oxonia Enterprise and Research Foundation for the development of a Student Resources Mobile Application Platform. She is a Member of the UNCTAD eTrade for Women Community and was previously a Foreign Service Office diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uganda.

Gary McGonagle, Howman Solicitors

Gary McGonagle is a founding partner at Howman Solicitors and has specialist knowledge in Corporate and Intellectual Property law. He was previously a partner in a city law firm and a media and entertainment law firm in London. He can draw on a wide range of commercial experience having also worked as an "in-house" lawyer for a FTSE listed international fashion company. Howman Solicitors is a West-End based firm of solicitors, with an ethical and modern approach. It builds strong and long lasting client relationships and helps its clients achieve and develop their business strategies.

Natalia Korek, Basck

Natalia Korek is an IP strategist and Managing Director of Basck, an Intellectual Property Consultancy specialising in building commercially focused IP portfolios for fast growing brands and tech companies. Having worked in IP for the past 9 years, as well as taking part in a start-up journey herself, she has gained a unique blend of legal, business and analytic skills that allows her to understand a wide spectrum of businesses regardless of their size or stage of growth. Natalia champions data-driven decisions, not only supported by business's own objectives but also justified by the market and competitors' activity, all in the pursuit of maximising the value of intangible assets. She frequently holds workshops and presentations for start-ups and investors, and is also a mentor of UKTI's Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP). Natalia holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Wroclaw.

Gregor Kleinknecht LLM MCIArb, Hunters Law LLP

Gregor Kleinknecht LLM MCIArb is a dual qualified German Rechtsanwalt and English solicitor. Following a career at international law firms in the City of London, Gregor founded and led the award-winning boutique law firm Klein Solicitors. Gregor joined Hunters Law LLP upon the merger of the two firms in February 2014. Gregor has a strong and broadly based contentious and non-contentious IP practice, focusing on brand protection, and the exploitation, protection and enforcement of trade marks, domain names, design rights and copyright. He advises and acts for a wide range of businesses, from small, innovative start-ups and high growth companies to family companies and multinational enterprises.”

Nick Ioannou, Boolean Logical

Nick Ioannou is an IT professional, blogger, author and public speaker on cloud and security issues with over 20 years' corporate experience. As an early adopter of cloud systems, he has been paying for the privilege of bug testing them ever since. He started blogging in 2012 on free IT resources (www.booleanlogical.com) currently with over 500 posts. Nick is the author of Internet Security Fundamentals, A Practical Guide to Cyber Security for Small Businesses and A Practical Guide to GDPR for Small Businesses as well as a contributing author to three editions of Managing Cybersecurity Risk and Conquer the Web published by Legend Business Books.

Julia May, May Figures Limited

Julia May is not only a prize-winning Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor (ex- Big4) but also has a BEng Honours Degree in Engineering Science and broad-based industry experience at an international geospatial software house, an IT consultancy and other cutting edge business before setting up her boutique R&D Tax Credit Advisory. Having saved clients over £55 million in tax savings and cash rebates, Julia liaises with in-house finance teams to ensure all eligible costs are fully claimed. She liaises with your external accountant on the preparation of the tax computations and filing submission and communication with HMRC. Julia's reputation within the industry resulted in her being invited to join the HMRC Consultation Committee on R&D Tax Credits, enabling her to further develop her relationships at HMRC developed over many years.

Margit Hoehne, patentGate GmbH

Margit Hoehne is CEO of patentGate GmbH since 2008. She has 20 years’ experience with patent information, starting as a research assistant at PATON, the patent information centre in Ilmenau, Germany. Since then she has specialised in developing solutions for in-house patent monitoring workflows. Margit has a degree in business and computer science from the Technical University Ilmenau.

Dr. Mark Graves, May Figures Limited

Dr. Mark Graves has an MEng degree in Engineering Science and a PhD in Computer Science (real-time image processing). He spent 15 years running software development teams in Europe, the USA and India in fields ranging from wireless sensor networks, neural network process control and web and mobile application development, before moving into the field of R&D Tax Credits in 2010. Mark has prepared over 1,500 R&D claim submissions and, having successfully handed a number of HMRC enquiries into software claims, has a detailed understanding of how HMRC Inspectors determine the technical eligibility of a claim. He has a postgraduate certificate in Intellectual Property Law and is a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst. He has personally invested in over 200 technology start-up companies and can advise on loan and equity financing for early-stage technology companies.

Carrie de Silva

Carrie de Silva lectured in law and Taxation to prospective rural chartered surveyors at Harper Adams University for over 20 years. She is currently a visiting Professor at the Royal Agricultural University and a consultant with a great interest in life-long learning and developing engaging and pertinent CPD works in the land-based, property and equestrian sector, for example delivering legal training to residential surveyors for Sava. Along with this, Carrie researches various historical matters, particularly early women in the professions. She has an interest in the legal frameworks of owning and managing the rural landscape, professional negligence and civil liability in the land and property sector and criminal liability for personal injury and death. Carrie has written widely in academic publications, authored books in her areas of interest, including A Short History of Agricultural Education and Research, First Women, Equine Law, Negligent Valuation Casebook and Health and Safety Casebook and has co-edited Galbraith's Construction and Estate Management Law along with producing several entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Professor Nigel Adams, University of Buckingham

Professor Nigel Adams is a Professor in Professional Practice and the first Director of the Buckingham Enterprise and Innovation Unit (BEIU) at the University of Buckingham. He advises, supports and mentors undergraduate students in the business aspects of the innovative, two year (8 term) BSc in Business Enterprise (BBE) Venture Creation Programme. Nigel is Chairman of all the businesses that BBE students must establish and run as an integral part of their honours degree in Business Enterprise. He alsoadvises and mentors other university students, staff and local people who want to start a business or grow their businesses.. Nigel is an experienced international business adviser with more than 40 years' experience in business, enterprise, management, marketing and counter-trade. He was based in Poland from 1993 until 2002, working on Polish state company restructuring projects as a British Government Know How Fund Management Adviser.

Karren Whitely-Brooks, Whitespace and Innovators Highway

Karren Whitely-Brooks founded Whitespace at the request of her successful client base from the London Leadership Centre. She is passionate about global consciousness and the neurosciences, which help explain the emotional and mental performance required for the attainment of success and happiness. Karren is an innovative media entrepreneur and brings that valuable experience to her advisory services for business, legacy families and elite sports, organisations and athletes. She is known for her provocative interviews and remarkable breakthrough results with her clients. Karren is the author of Spiritual Currency - Life's Capital.

Published

February 14, 2022 — Updated on October 17, 2022

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