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Alan Gleeson

Alan Gleeson is the General Manager of Palo Alto Software UK, makers of Business Plan Pro and LivePlan. Alan has an MBA from Oxford and an MSc from University College, Cork, Ireland. You can follow Alan on Twitter @alangleeson

Alan Gleeson

cmypitch.com, a UK based business website which provides online services for UK entrepreneurs and SMEs, has just relaunched with a more diversified offering. While their original focus was predominantly on providing a video based platform for entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas, the new site has a much broader range of offerings. In part, I assume, [...]

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Palo Alto Software Ltd is delighted to announce that we will be running a number of business planning workshops in London, U.K., commencing on 27 January 2009. These business planning workshops will be run in conjunction with Company Partners, a Wokingham-England based business matching service, and will be held at the British Library in Central [...]

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I attended the Techcrunch Talk hosted by Mike Butcher in London yesterday (December 16th). It was a fantastic event with a host of excellent contributors including Barry Vitou (Winston and Strawn),  Sean Seton Rogers of Balderton, Andrew Scott of Rummble, Greg Marsh of Index Ventures and Colette Ballou of Ballou PR. Here are some of [...]

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The Business Pitch

by Alan Gleeson on December 10, 2008

Business pitches are growing in popularity here in the UK as well as in the US. However, as this article, The Business Pitch by Alan Gleeson illustrates, business pitches are no substitute for the real thing – a thorough business plan! This short article describes the concept of pitching in detail, and argues why pitches [...]

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Palo Alto Software will be exhibiting at the forthcoming BStartup event in London Olympia on this coming Friday and Saturday, November 28th and 29th. Alan Gleeson will be doing a presentation in Seminar Hall 2, at 11AM on Friday. His speech is entitled ‘Will my idea work?’ and will cover the following topics: 1. The [...]

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There has been a growth in the number of business advisers in the U.K. in recent years and it is likely that their skill and knowledge will be in heavy demand from small businesses looking to grow and prosper in these troubling economic times. One entrepreneur, Vicky Carne is seeking to cater for the growing [...]

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The last few months have been particularly tough for businesses and the outlook is not exactly favourable. However, here at Palo Alto Software we remain committed to helping small-businesses succeed (regardless of the circumstances). We believe that entrepreneurs and small-business owners need to get back to fundamentals and to continue to create value for their [...]

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Ambition

by Alan Gleeson on October 13, 2008

October 12, 2008 Despite all the doom and gloom, it was great to participate at FOWA in London last week. There was a great buzz around the place and plenty of people with fantastic business ideas in attendance. It is, of course, a real sign of true entrepreneurship that people continue to innovate and progress [...]

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October 3, 2008 We’ll be showcasing our new Email Center Pro product at the forthcoming Future of Web Apps Expo, in London on October -10. The FOWA Expo will feature a number of well known speakers including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Mike Butcher of Techcrunch UK & Ireland, as well as Julie Meyer of Ariadne [...]

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The 6th series of Dragons’ Den returned to our screens on the BBC on July 21st (U.K.). For those unfamiliar with the concept, Dragons’ Den is a popular TV show in the U.K., where entrepreneurs pitch their business plans to prospective investors or ‘dragons’ as they are known. These dragons consist of a group of [...]

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