Share Your Start-Up Story – Tutoring with ‘Tutora’
Tutora is an online marketplace helping students and parents find the best local tutors for one-to-one tuition in their own homes. Users simply search by subject and postcode, read reviews left by each tutors’ previous students then send a message to their chosen tutors to book lessons. Scott Woodley discovered Tutora, with his friend Mark […]
Five Lessons To Learn In A Sharing Economy Start-up
Co-founder of Weroom – Five Lessons To Learn In A Sharing Economy Start-up Thomas Villeneuve co-founded Weroom in 2013 with the aim of building a marketplace, which connects the community of tenants, landlords and agencies in harmonious flat-sharing experiences. I came up with the idea to launch a website to help match people to their […]
Share Your Start-Up Story – TwentySomeone with Sam Jones
TwentySomeone is a life-coaching platform empowering the younger generation to transition smoothly in life. Sam Jones, 26, launched his venture to help those in their twenties develop a balanced personal and professional life with the aim of inspiring a change in how they see themselves. His ultimate aim is to nurture young start-ups around the world and motivate […]
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: Little Fish Event Management
Little Fish Event is a corporate event management agency supporting business to business organisations with their internal and external corporate events. Lindsey Fish, 32, is part of the growing number of women re-inventing their work-life by setting up their own businesses while on maternity leave. She launched Little Fish Event in June 2014, which inspired the opening of her second […]
Ideas: British young inventors ‘working for a better world’ from across the UK
Shining ‘light on the best of British ingenuity’ are the 2021 winners of the Young Innovators awards using their ideas to work ‘for a better world’ from across the country. With ideas ranging from using empty shops on local high streets as Creative Youth Labs, to creating a secure currency exchange platform for Africans living […]
Do You Need Cash For Your Business? Apply To The BBC Two Dragons’ Den Series 18
Applications for the BBC Two Dragons’ Den next series – a pitching TV reality show – is now open to founders looking to win cash funding for their investment-ready business ideas. Dragons’ Den is back for its 18th series and you can apply to pitch to a panel of the UK’s most successful venture capitalists […]
The 5 Networking events ‘led by young people’ to jumpstart your Media and Creative career
These networking events – created by young people – should be on your new-year-new-me list if you are looking to kickstart your career within the media and creative sector. With research figures showing the UK’s creative sector contributing more than £100 billion per year to the economy and employing around 2 million people, there is […]
Faces Of The ‘often unsung’ Black Founders Nominated At The Black British Business Awards 2019
These are the faces of the British black founders competing in this year’s Black British Business Awards – representing the very best black rising stars across the UK’s diverse business sector. Now in its sixth year running, The Black British Business Awards (BBBAwards) aims to celebrate and spotlight the “often unsung contributions” of black business […]
#EverydayNigerians – Life As A Nigerian Baker
Samuel Ibrahim – founder of Sam’s Cakes & Desserts – had long toyed with the idea of having his own food business but the decision to bake cakes wasn’t entirely out of passion – #EverydayNigerians. Since 2014, Samuel has been running his own bakery shop with the determination to be successful in a country dogged with […]