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These Two Entrepreneurs Share Their Experience Of The Dragons’ Den And Winning Investment For Their Business

Surviving the BBC Two Dragons’ Den intense questioning is not an easy feat but the founders of BKD and TEA+ did. We ask these two previous winners of the Dragons’ Den, who had combined winnings of over £100k, to share their experience of successfully pitching their businesses to the Dragons’. Adelle Smith, 36, is the founder of […]

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CEO ADVICE: How To Attract Investors To Your Startup With A Winning Business Plan

Entrepreneurs looking for funding to launch or grow their startups are 16% more likely to succeed with a business plan, according to a recent study from the University of Edinburgh Business School and RWTH Aachen University. The research findings, published mid-last year in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, studied more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and their startups […]

investment

How To Build And Scale Your Online Business Without Investment

Many small businesses come with the mindset that they need to be a startup that disrupts their sector – They seek investment, grow and scale quickly but it’s extremely easy to fail on this premise. A premise that is easy to follow given recent government incentives towards startup investment. Never has it been so easy to […]

9 to 5 job

Zain Khan – Balancing My ‘Bump’ Business With My 9 to 5 Job

Learn how to keep a full-time job and a business from part-time entrepreneur Zain Khan whose daily struggle is running his networking app business ‘Bump’ alongside his 9 to 5 job. Zain, 25, created Bump to help people share their social media information all at once and much easily. The ‘one-stop social’ app, launched late last […]

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young entrepreneurs

Celebrating Young Entrepreneurs Awarded In The Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016

The Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2016 gives major recognition to young entrepreneurs for their successful startups and to organisations supporting youth entrepreneurship. Over a 1,000 people were named in the Honours list, which was released last week Friday as Her Majesty celebrated her 90th birthday. Some of the young business owners, aged 35 and under, awarded MBEs […]

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Black British Business Awards 2021

‘The fight against systemic racial injustice and for equality…continues’ – Black British Business Awards 2021 is open

In celebration of the ‘commercial contribution’ of Black talent to the UK economy, the Black British Business Awards 2021 is open and they are looking to spotlight these ‘outstanding achievements’. Since 2014, the Black British Business Awards (BBBAwards) has been a driving force promoting diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. As the Black Lives Matter […]

STARTUP STORY

Gender Bias - JustWears

Defying Gender Bias As A Young Female Founder

Gender Bias – One thing I’ve realised is that too many investment decisions are made based on judgments influenced by widely held beliefs about someone’s age, gender, education, and race. Yang Liu, the founder of JustWears (formerly known as JoeyWears) – a high performing men’s underwear company – and a former a VC, shares her […]

Startups - Finding Your Money Route

How Can Startups Navigate The World Of Grant Funding

The number one priority for startups and most businesses is accessing finance especially when it’s needed to get the business start-up and running. For young entrepreneurs, who don’t have years of experience working full-time or piles of savings in the bank, the challenge is arguably even greater. This makes grant funding particularly attractive options for […]

Lizzy Hodcroft - The Sweet Beet Food Business

How My Food Business Saved My Life And Why Resilience Is Key To Entrepreneurship

When you find yourself waking up in a Mental Hospital one morning, you don’t exactly feel as though you’ll be successful in life – Success at that point meant trying to live a normal life and it certainly was not the type of success I was trying to achieve with my food business. Lizzy Hodcroft, the […]

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Invincible Cinema

Invincible Cinema Screen Launched To Teach Under 25s About Social Media Fraud

An invincible cinematic screen experience titled – For Your Eyes Alone – has been launched by Santander in a bid to educate young people about sharing potentially sensitive personal information online. The UK-wide campaign, ‘named as the world’s first invincible cinema’, shows films that are invincible to the naked eye, and can only be watched […]

Reputation

HOW TO: 5 Quick Steps To Help You Build Your Business Online Reputation

One of the biggest mistakes you can make when planning to launch your startup is not first building your business’s online reputation. The key is to make sure that people know about you, your business and what you have in the pipeline for any upcoming ideas. Here are our 5 quick steps on how to […]

Success

Boosting Your Startup’s Chance Of Success

Success in today’s market basically needs you to offer your startup to potential clients as a more appealing option than your competitors. As a business owner, you should already be aware of who your business rivals are and how tough competition is out there. If you’re struggling to grow and keep the momentum high of customer traffic, […]

Window Display

5 Ways To Create And Attract Customers With A Winning Window Display

Designing an attractive window display for your retail startup might be one of your least things to worry about but it can be the make-or-break factor in your customer’s decision.  Whether you’re new to the scene or you’ve been running your business for a while – getting your window display just right is a tough […]

Apple Launches Entrepreneur Camp To Help Female App Developers

The new app development program – Entrepreneur Camp – recently launched by Apple aims to support female founders into leadership roles within the tech sector. Entrepreneur Camp is a new initiative designed to provide female founders, within the app space, with access to resources, networking and mentoring opportunities. Applicants applying for the programme must have […]

Starting Up

Three Ways To Protect Your Business Funds When Starting Up

There is no bigger threat to your startup than a lack of revenue when starting out as a small business owner. With such a small chance of surviving past the five first years, the work you put into building a solid foundation for yourself and safeguarding your business might just be what you need to […]

Collaboration

The Power Of Collaboration

Collaboration is an essential ingredient in keeping up your startup’s competitive edge – Innovation comes when you recognise the undeniable strength in working effectively together. Long gone is the traditional business model where staying competitive is all about ‘outdoing your competitors’. Startups are now outperforming established businesses using the ‘Corporate Innovation‘ model because they’ve been […]

My Startup Story Business Tips

WATCH: My Startup Story Business Tips

Money isn’t what makes something great. It’s what makes it scalable and accessible – My Startup Story Business Tips. My Startup Story event is the place for inspirational young entrepreneurs to share their entrepreneurial stories and inspire the next generation of business leaders. The second #mystartupstoryuk event took place on Thursday 15th November at WeWork South […]

Bias

Using My Tech Startup To Stand Up Against Gender, Racial And Disability Bias In The Workplace

Recruitment is just one of the ways that direct or indirect bias can slip into our decision-making. We need to do more to ensure that these biased views have no place within the working environment – That is where my startup seeks to make the change. Mac Alonge created his tech platform ‘The Equal Group’ […]

Varsity Pitch

NACUE’s Varsity Pitch 2018 Winner Is WASE – a social enterprise startup turning sewage waste into energy and clean water

The £10,000 top prize at this year’s UK-wide Varsity Pitch competition goes to Tom Fudge – founder of WASE – a water treatment startup developing technologies to help provide sanitation and energy to remote communities in developing countries. Varsity Pitch, a national business pitching competition organised by the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs […]

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‘Saturday Girls’ Photo Exhibition: celebrating young women working weekend jobs to have financial & creative independence

Job-hiring app Job Today teams up with acclaimed British photographer Lewis Khan for a collection of photos showcasing women – aged 16 to 29 years old – working weekend jobs to pursue their creative and entrepreneurial dreams.  Named Saturday Girls: The Evolution of Women in the British Workforce, this documentary-style photo exhibition celebrates British women working […]

'Wild Card' pitch - WeWork London Creators Awards 2018

WeWork London Creators Awards Grand Finale: ‘Wild Card’ Investment Pitch Winner – Joshua Ogunnote

This year’s WeWork London Creators Awards grand finale saw celebrity actor Ashton Kutcher surprise members of the audience by inviting them to pitch and win funding for their business – ‘Wild Card’ pitch. Joshua Ogunnote, founder of a new social media music app ‘Chune’, won the audience member ‘Wild Card’ pitch investment of £13,000 to scale up […]

Finalists at WeWork London Creator Awards Competition

Meet The Five Finalists Pitching To Win Up To £280k At The WeWork London Creator Awards 2018

Five creative entrepreneurs have reached the final round of the WeWork London Creator Awards competition to pitch their innovative startups and win a share of £280k in funding. The WeWork Creator Awards is a global competition recognising and rewarding innovative startups, entrepreneurs, performing artists, and non-profit organisations. Since March 2017, WeWork has hosted more than 31,000 attendees […]

My Startup Story - photo gallery

My Startup Story Photo Gallery……..Annnnnndddd it’s the 4 week countdown!

My Startup Story photo gallery flashback – giving young founders the platform to share and empower us with their startup stories. The next group of young founders will be sharing tips on how to turn your business dreams into reality, and they will also be discussing their startup stories on diversity, mental health, sharing economy, and […]