Clean & Cool Mission 2010

If you’re running a UK tech business there’s still time to enter this year’s Clean & Cool Mission to San Francisco.

Following on from the success of last year’s Web Mission to Silicon Valley, Clean & Cool Mission will see 20 of the UK best technology companies taken on a tour of America’s innovation Mecca where they’ll network with media, other tech entrepreneurs and potential investors.

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Quote machine

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Pre-Budget report: the small business review

There were few surprises in today’s pre-Budget report, except perhaps the drop in Bingo tax. But while a few titbits were thrown to older voters, what did the small business community think of Darling’s festive offerings? We’ve summarised the reaction of the UK’s entrepreneurs here:

Matt McNeill, founder eTicketsand Sign-up.to:
“I’m not particularly surprised with the pre-Budget report to be honest....

By admin2 09/12/09 15:24

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Global Entrepreneurship Week

It’s now just over two weeks until the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week, a worldwide initiative which celebrates and promotes all things entrepreneurial. The Week has been running since 2004, and last year’s effort saw 24,966 events and activities run in 77 countries. More than three million people took part with 644,000 in the UK alone.

At this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week the initiat...

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Startups Awards winner to speak in Leeds

The winner of last year’s Startups Awards is to speak at our free networking event startupslive in Leeds next week.

Trevor Brocklebank, who took home the award for business of the year in 2008 for Home Instead Senior Care, will be speaking at the Hilton Hotel on 22nd October.

A year after winning the Startups Awards, Home Instead Senior Care has doubled both its turnover and the number of elderly pe...

By admin2 13/10/09 10:06

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Managing expectations

The current crop of school and university leavers are facing the toughest competition for employment than any preceding generation. Having been raised on a decade and a half of unprecedented and unrelenting economic growth they have no frame of reference when it comes to recession. And given that this is the worst downturn for the best part of a century, it’s all the more intimidating for the aver...

By admin2 08/10/09 10:49

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Watch this space

In what some may regard as the final nail in the commercial TV networks’ coffins it was announced this week that online ad spend is higher than TV expenditure for the first time ever. Figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) revealed online advertising grew by 4.6% to £1.75bn in the first half of 2009.

The impressive figures come despite a plummet for the advertising industry as a whole w...

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Investment ready?

When news hit the wire last week that online food delivery portal Just-Eat had closed a £10.5m funding round with Index Ventures, claims that the VC market was in a state of complete hibernation suddenly had a little less weight behind them. Along with London-based fan-to-fan ticket exchange Seatwave, which bagged a further $17m last month, the company proved there was still scope for large scale ...

By admin2 22/07/09 17:11

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Blind confidence or savvy foresight?

The queue outside Startups’ local M&S was stretching half way down the high street at 8.30am this morning. In what’s arguably one part birthday celebration, four parts marketing bonanza, Britain’s best loved retailer is selling two million items in exchange for just a penny a product. Whether any of the chosen two million items are worth buying is thus far beyond my knowledge – I have no intention...

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Feedback, not failure

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