Female Entrepreneurs and Alternative Finance
Female business owners are still not fully aware of the alternative finance options available to them. Last year, the alternative finance market grew to £3.2 billion with a range of different crowdfunding and peer-to-business lending platforms entering the space. The alternative business lending sector is beginning to take an increasing share of SME lending through investing […]
EIT Digital Challenge
EIT Digital Challenge – The annual Europe-wide call for the most innovative startups in digital technology ready to scale up and enter the EIT Digital Accelerator. Before applying, ask yourself these questions: Are you a fast growing European technology startup ready to scale? Does your product / service leverage digital technology applied to industry, cities, […]
How To Overcome The Barriers Of Being A Young Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is not for the faint hearted – No matter your age, demographic or determination, an entrepreneur’s career path is rough and you need to be thick skinned in order to handle the bumps and bruises you’ll get along the way. Let’s not forget that approximately 95% of new ventures will fail so it takes […]
The Future of Retail Challenge – Startup Competition By Venturespring
Time to get you thinking caps on startups – Devise a new innovative idea for the retail industry using IBM Bluemix™ and win the opportunity to access up to £750,000 worth of investment. Powered by Venturespring, the international venture development studio, in association with IBM, Argos and the Unilever Foundry. The startup community are invited to […]
DocTap – Alex Hamilton
Alex Hamilton’s health tech startup ‘DocTap’ is the Uber for doctors and a GP service making private healthcare more affordable for everyone. DocTap‘s private GP service helps people get last-minute doctor’s appointment on the same-day from as little as £29. The 29-year-old army Captain turned entrepreneur discovered his business idea after developing a chronic back problem while serving with […]
What Can Small Businesses Expect From The ‘Vote Leave’ Result
What can small businesses now expect from the ‘Vote Leave’ result after 17.4m of the UK population voted to leave the European Union with a 51.9% majority. Part of the Vote Leave’s ‘Brexit’ campaign was the claim that “EU regulations was costing small businesses millions every week”, therefore, promising that “UK trade and jobs will thrive […]
Love the Sales wins the £160k #TeaseLondon competition
Love the Sales – a website that aggregates +500,000 sale items into one website for consumers – wins the £160,000 media package in the #TeaseLondon competition organised by Eyetease and Verifone Media. Announced at the opening event of London Tech Week on Monday, the startup will see its services advertised over 16 million times across London on taxi-top screens. Stuart McClure, co-Founder of Love […]
Young Entrepreneurs Abroad – Startup Story of CrunchBoards
CrunchBoards is a forecasting and planning tool helping small businesses across the globe use their financial data to plan better for the future. Founders – Amy Harris (28) and Hannah McIntyre (39). Launch Date – Set up in 2014. Country – Sydney, Australia. Funding – Privately funded. Customers – 11,500+ customers in nearly 100 countries (Has offices in London […]
New FinTech Accelerator Launched By Bank of England
Bank of England launches new FinTech Accelerator – Partnering with startups to harness FinTech innovations for central banking. The accelerator aims to develop new technologies to support the banking sector with chosen firms given the opportunity to test their products in a live environment. Areas of interest includes: Structuring and analysing large data sets and data gained in regulatory reporting; […]
Cavendish Enterprise launches its own crowdfunding platform – Cavendish Crowd
Cavendish Enterprise launches ‘Cavendish Crowd’ as a response to demand from small businesses for alternative funding options other than bank loans. Cavendish Crowd, launched by Cavendish Enterprise with Crowdfunder UK, is said to be the “first UK Enterprise Agency crowdfunding platform”. The new initiative aims to support small businesses at a ‘start up’ stage to those looking to grow […]