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Co-Founder Story – Going Into Business With My Friend
The saying goes that friends should never go into business together but my partnership with my co-founder has been strengthened by our friendship. Tom Gatzen, together with his friend Rob Imonikhe, co-founded Ideal Flatmate – an algorithm based flatmate matchmaker, which helps tenants find compatible house companions. The 28-year-old tech entrepreneur highlights the highs and […]
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 […]
How I Got Celebrity Endorsements For My Ethical Startup Tackling Education Inequality
Getting celebrities to endorse your product may seem a stretch when starting a new business – However it’s possible and this is how we gathered celebrity endorsements in our fight against education inequality. Will Adoasi is the founder of ‘Vitae London‘ – a watch company that buys school uniforms for children in South Africa with […]
Share Your Start-Up Story – Thriva
Digital Health startup – Thriva – is a use-at-home mail-order blood testing kit helping people have better control over their health. Thriva offers the tracking of several health biomarkers from a single finger-prick blood test and the results are given within 48 hours. The health tech business, co-founded by Hamish Grierson, 32, just last year, […]
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Debut – Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor’s career app ‘Debut’ is reinventing how students apply for jobs – A new role can start from just simply playing a mobile game. The interactive mobile app, for both students and graduates, provides an alternative process to the current system of using a career’s website or job boards. Charles, 25, was inspired to close the gap within […]
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TikTok and Shopify launch ‘game changing’ partnership to scale-up UK entrepreneurs
The new coalition will see Shopify’s sellers connect with the TikTok community through shoppable video ads to ‘help them build their brand, drive sales, and create engaged communities’. Shopify retailers can now create video advertising campaigns from their dashboards and post them directly on the new TikTok For Business platform. This uses creativity to support […]
STARTUP STORY
Fast Fashion Brands: ‘Why the issue with Boohoo is bigger than us independent designers’
Relatively less is said about fast fashion’s impact on independent designers, but it is certainly emblematic of the persistent struggles that creatives face when trying to compete with larger corporates. In the present day Millenials-influenced fashion era where the craze of Fast Fashion is gradually becoming a major thorn in the flesh of high-end Fashion […]
Share Your Start-Up Story – BillHive
BillHive is a digital platform that automatically stores all your receipts in one place at the time of purchase. Simone Fattouche, 27, discovered BillHive when she was denied a cash refund by a high street store because she had lost her purchase receipt. More About BillHive? BillHive is an app, which ensures you never lose a paper […]
Share Your Start-Up Story: Teaboy Games – ‘Fallen’
Teaboy Games is a games studio focused on designing unique arcade-style mobile games for all ages. The business was set up by three graduates in 2014, all aged between 22 and 25, after meeting each other through the Games Hub scheme run by Eastern Enterprise Hub. Frazer Merrick, Scott Taylor and Aidan Randall’s first game ‘Fallen‘ hit over […]
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#LondonEvent: My Startup Story – An evening of networking, refreshments & startup chats
Join our inspirational #mystartupstoryuk young founders as they discuss how they developed their social and environmental impact startups on Thursday 15 November 2018 – #LondonEvent. The IAmNewGen My Startup Story is a series of speaking events inspiring your innovative ideas into reality and it’s back in London with another group of inspirational young founders sharing their […]
HOW TO: Spot And Support Your Friends To Improve Their Mental Health Wellbeing
If somebody tells you that they have a mental health issue – Research, Learn, Engage and Educate yourself. Jana Dowling, founder of The 888 Collective, was inspired to launch her own social enterprise startup in August 2017 as a direct response to her personal experience with losing work after suffering mental health issues. After returning back […]
Business Owners Share Their ‘Insider Tips’ On How They Manage Mental Health At Work
‘Learn your limits….drop some goals’ – We asked the business community to share their insider tips on how they handle mental health at work. Beyond ‘World Mental Health Day‘, these useful tips can still remain relevant and be your go-to-guide for having a healthy work-life balance. Learn your limits Learn your limits – once I worked […]
Calling London Student & Graduate Entrepreneurs – Apply To Win £20,000 In The Mayor’s Entrepreneur 2019 Competition
Applications are now open for the Mayor’s Entrepreneur 2019 competition and they are looking for London students and recent graduates to submit an innovative idea to address issues facing the capital. The business pitching competition, sponsored by Citi, has now expanded to include three winning startups receiving £20,000 each for ideas submitted under these categories […]
Editorial Tech Spotlight On ‘Waalflower’ – A wall mounted wireless charger for tablets
Waalflower is on a wireless mission to make charging your smart devices at home look elegantly stylish and economical at the same time. The wall mounted wireless charger is all about keeping your tablet powered at all times while making it accessible and inexpensive. One part of the hardware sees the product dock easily attach to […]
Shell Springboard Competition – £350k Funding Pot On Offer To Low-Carbon Businesses
The Royal Dutch Shell is looking to award a funding pot of £350k to the UK’s top leading low-carbon businesses. Applications are now open for the Shell Springboard 2019 national programme, which funds the most innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs) tackling Britain’s energy issues. The yearly competition is one of Shell’s two social investment […]
Business Competitions Supporting Young Founders
These carefully selected business competitions and awards offer funding and great publicity to support young founders under 35. If you’re planning to turn your business dreams into reality and you’re in need of a great source to grow your idea, then check out our pick of organisations that provide cash prizes, mentoring and press exposure to young […]
#Career Change – From The Banking Sector To Running My Own Healthy Drink Business
Making any career change is tough – Leaving the corporate safety net to take the leap into the entrepreneurial wilderness makes you define what it is to be busy and what hard work actually is. Former banker Kris Ingham discovered the health benefits of amino acids while he was at University over 10 years ago. […]
Creative Entrepreneurs: Apply For WeWork Creator Awards 2018 And Win Up To £280K
WeWork – a global network providing shared office spaces – has launched the application for its ‘Creator Awards’ programme – aimed at supporting creative ideas and entrepreneurs. The WeWork Creator Awards is a global competition recognising and rewarding innovative startups, entrepreneurs, performing artists, and non-profit organisations. Applicants from across the business sector are invited to apply […]
The Finalists At The MSDUK 2018 Innovation Challenge – Helping BAME entrepreneurs into corporate markets
Meet the 12 ethnic minority-led founders shortlisted for this years’ MSDUK Innovation Challenge – championing corporate supply chain diversity & inclusion. The MSDUK Innovation Challenge, organised by MSDUK – a charity promoting the inclusion of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) businesses into corporate supply chains – aims to support minority-led businesses to bring their […]
Business Growth – Essential Guide To Startup Funding Stages
Funding is essential for any business to grow but trying to raise startup funds can prove to be tricky especially if you don’t know how to get investment. To help you maximise your business success, you need to know where you are and where you are going in relation to funding. Knowing what investment stage you’re […]
Young Entrepreneurs Abroad – Startup Story Of Ojay’s Travels
Nigerian-based travel and tourism company – Ojay’s Travels – connects people from different cultural backgrounds to meet and socialise together through the art of wanderlust. Founder – Hans Omang and Akwon Otu. Launch Date – 2012 Country – Abuja, Nigeria Success Story – The founders also own another business ‘O-jay Suites & Hotels‘, and both […]
NACUE’s Varsity Pitch Competition 2018 – Students & Graduate Entrepreneurs Apply To Win £10k Funding
NACUE’s Varsity Pitch Competition is back on the hunt for the best UK student and graduates business ideas with £10,000 cash funding up for grabs. Organised by the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs and sponsored by Tata, the national business pitching competition is back for another year in celebrating the top early-stage business […]
Ryan Yasin’s Fashion Tech Startup ‘Petit Pli’ Is Solving The Issue With Fast Fashion
Ryan Yasin’s fashion technology startup ‘Petit Pli’ combines creativity and engineering to become the answer to tackling fast fashion sustainably. Petit Pli is origami-inspired versatile and waterproof clothes for children, which stretches as they grow. The London-based 25-year-old designer was inspired by his sister, who had just had a baby at the time, to create a […]
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