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CIOs: Are you your CEO's business partner or their GIMP?

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I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER

¡Bong! Investor Steve directs the baroness's funeral
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Steve Bong, 12 Apr 11:44

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Steve Bong is the founder of Bong Ventures, an early stage investor and incubator focusing on innovative new technology start-ups, based in Shoreditch, London.

I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER

¡Bong! Investor Steve directs the baroness's funeral
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had the majority of voting shares as well" - Motivational poster at Bong Ventures London HQ. I am dictating this sotto voce from the nerve centre of Operation True Blue at an undisclosed location in Whitehall STOP My assistant มาลัย (which means ' …
12 Apr 11:44

Why I'm hiring the BRAINS and BALLS of CONSERVATIVE 2.0

¡Bong! Welcome, visionary Rahul Sativa
"Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture." - Mao Tse Tung, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1959) There will soon be a new face at Bong Ventures. The UK …
05 Apr 14:29

Arise, Lord BONG

¡Bong! My helpful GNOMES will slay these PEERS
What is a vanguard role? It means taking the lead - Enver Hoxha Enterpreneurs!! Imagineers!! Emergent social nodes!! I bring you great news. A New Britain is emerging - thanks to Conservative 2.0 and its Digital by Default thinking. The old elites based on profits, exports and industry and R&D are falling by the wayside as a …
01 Mar 14:28

Roast entrepreneur: Mmm, tastes Just Like Chicken

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¡Bong! Google Glasses and The MIRACLE of the ALPS
"Thousands upon thousands of martyrs have heroically laid down their lives for the people; let us hold their banner high and march ahead along the path crimson with their blood!" Mao Tse Tung - "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 318. When I last filed an update with you, I was taking off …
15 Feb 15:27

Bong: My DIGITAL KINGDOM for a HORSE

¡Bong! My Travel Diary: All the fresh goss plus a soupçon of hoss
"Victory in guerrilla war is conditioned upon keeping the membership pure and clean" - Mao Tse-Tung Organization For Guerilla Warfare Chapter 5 MOCOA, COLOMBIA - Word reaches me from London that the snow is piling up on all sides, causing panic and giddiness. The snow is piling up on all sides here in rural Colombia too, with …
22 Jan 07:04

Baby Bong #businessmodel is my PRIDE and JOY

¡Bong! I'm incubating the next generation - LITERALLY
"In the Soviet suburbs of Hell and the blasted avenues of Mogadishu, I saw what our society could become" - Peter Hitchens, The Daily Mail The Bongster is summoned to a crisis meeting at No.10. Britain's skills shortage is top of the agenda. I enter the room, but I haven't even had time to place the large crate of one-litre …
30 Nov 15:48

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