Hints and tips:
...For now, clients appear to be buying into the passionate Don Draper-style pitches from agencies about the future of the industry — and their place in it....
...After a meeting with venture capitalist Tim Draper — sealed by a promise along with his co-founder, Vlad Tenev, to forgo a salary — the start-up was saved....
...The Series E fundraising was led by Sunley House Capital Management and included participation from Draper Espirit, which invested $25m in the Danish company five years ago....
...But the widespread use of e-money would also have broader implications....
...Listen to the FT’s fortnightly culture podcast Everything Else for lively discussion and star guests, including — in our most recent episode — Richard E. Grant....
...And according to Draper’s initial public offering document, it values its portfolio “principally through reference to externally generated data such as investment round share prices”, i.e. they mark to the...
...Matt Draper, national officer at Unite, says the union has not yet witnessed redundancies due to adoption of robotics in the logistics sector....
...Balderton Capital, already a Crowdcube investor, and fellow venture capitalists Draper Esprit also participated....
...(Bloomberg) Food for thought Lunch with the FT Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner doesn’t live up to Don Draper’s excess, eschewing gallons of martini for a glass of wine....
...They’ve been alive for 300 years.’ ” Then Tim Draper, a prominent venture capitalist in Silicon Valley who invested in companies such as Hotmail and Skype, came on board....
...Backed by venture capitalists including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Andreessen Horowitz, the company is preparing to go public....
...It could sit on my desk with a couple of nice tumblers and I could pretend I’m Don Draper and offer people a convivial drink as they pass by. There is a small problem....
...In the US, companies including Charles Schwab, E Trade Financial and TD Ameritrade compete with offers of commission-free ETF trading on their fund platforms to attract financial advisers and retail investors...
...Then, to finish, there was Dvořák’s Piano Quartet in E Flat, Op. 87....
...Alongside Goldman in the syndicate were New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth, Pinnacle Ventures, TriplePoint Capital and Eastward Capital....
...Patrick Grant of tailors E. Tautz would be glad to see Prince William in uniform, like his father, grandfather and every other royal stretching back to George IV....
...Kate Bostock, general merchandise head at M&S, Anthony Thompson, Fat Face chief, and Barbara Horspool, New Look’s design director, were among the fashion retail executives gathered at the Drapers Awards...
...Alexandra Johnson, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Silicon Valley venture capital company, specialises in Russia....
...I can work at a bar fairly effectively if I’m answering questions or writing e-mails....
...Posters by E McKnight Kauffer, Man Ray and Graham Sutherland, textiles by Paul Nash and Enid Marx, stations designed by Charles Holden all bear witness to Pick’s vision....
...“E-mail used to be a bunch of locked-in services; you couldn’t e-mail from one service to another. But the web wouldn’t have taken off if they didn’t start talking to one another.”...
...The Brown aide sent e-mails to Derek Draper, a former government spin-doctor, with outlandish allegations against senior Tories such as David Cameron and George Osborne....
...Damian McBride quit from his post as head of strategic planning at No 10 on Saturday after admitting sending the “inappropriate and juvenile” e-mails from his Downing Street account to Derek Draper, another...
...Mr McBride resigned on Saturday as Mr Brown’s media strategist, after admitting sending the “inappropriate and juvenile” e-mails to Derek Draper, another former Labour spin doctor....
...Mr McBride, one of Gordon Brown’s closest aides, was forced to resign at the weekend after publication of e-mails he wrote to Mr Draper about ideas for a new website to be called Red Rag....
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