How Dan Wagner Powa'd through £144m of other people's money

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How not to run a company: Administrator's report into Dan Wagner's Powa makes for devastating reading

As business failure go, the rapid demise of Dan Wagner's Powa Technologies can only be described as impressive: it absorbed the best part of £144m in equity funding and loans over a period of just ...

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