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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Lot18 is making $1million+ a month just 6 months after launch Start-Ups

Lot18 is a flash sale site for wine. The site helps match up discerning buyers with reputable producers who are looking to market small batches of product at uniquely low prices. Lot18 co founders Phi Read More...

Startup Weekend – No Talk, All Action. Launch A Startup In 54 Hours Events

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings tog Read More...

The rise and rise of a new media mogul – Jamal Edwards of SBTV. Entrepreneurship

The common grounds for our present society dwell on two main areas – Money and Music. Jamal Edwards aka Smokey Barz recognised the impact of music and began to host an online Media Channel throu Read More...

The Winners: 3 UK Entrepreneurs meet Richard Branson Be Inspired

Chances of meeting one’s role model nowadays are extremely rare, i don’t mean via Twitter or Facebook but face-face really having a proper conversation with them physically, let’s not mention if Read More...

Startups with Co-founders rather than a single founder more likely to succeed Events

Angel Investor Ron Conway caused some controversy on Monday after stating that all young entrepreneurs are male. I think if you spent five minutes browsing through the YHP site you can see that simp Read More...

Serial Entrepreneur Lauren Leto’s Million Dollar Idea and Life Lessons Entrepreneurs

When Lauren Leto was in law school she founded Texts From Last Night, which she describes as a humour blog. The sight posts funny texts submissions that people send in anonymously, just showing a zip Read More...

Meeting Edwin Broni-Mensah – founder of GiveMeTap Entrepreneurship

Fresh off finishing his PHD in Mathematic Finance at The University of Manchester, i recently caught up Edwin-Broni Mensah, founder of GiveMeTap to talk about his startup and also his journey so far. Read More...

Waqas Baggia founder of Kreative Iron represents the UK at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit Entrepreneurs

Waqas Baggia is the co founder and managing director at Kreative Iron Limited. The innovative digital media company that provides graphic, web and general multimedia solutions to its clients, was foun Read More...

The Importance of Networking Entrepreneurs

As I sit on the tube writing this after what was my 3rd networking event off the week, I realised that networking is one of the most valuable spends off my time in terms of return, and not just in &he Read More...

Ironman James Headspeath founder of iChallengeU Be Inspired

James Headspeath hasn’t had an easy route to get to where he is now. The young entrepreneur had a comfortable background but didn’t do well while in school, failing to get more than 2 GCSE Read More...

Improving the online travel search experience – Interview with Co-founder of Hipmunk, Steve Huffman Entrepreneurship

Steve Huffman is the co-founder of Reddit (a popular social news site) which was sold to Conde cast almost 5 years ago and Hipmunk (a new travel search site that aims to take the agony out of travel p Read More...

How watching 8mile at age 11 inspired him to become a rapper – Interview with Eppic Entertainments & Art

Eppic became interested in music at age 11. After watching the movie 8 milie with his Dad, he began experimenting with music, writing lyrics. Although he said he only started off as a hobby but everyt Read More...

Q/A session with Joe McClure, founder of McClure’s Pickles Entrepreneurship

Using their great grandmother’s recipe, Bob and his brother Joe started McClure’s Pickles in 2006 with little to no capital. Creating the product in Brooklyn, New York, and just outside of Read More...

How two teenagers launched a record label – The Story of Launchpad Entertainments & Art

George and Louis have always had an eye for music, grime music to be precise, not knowing that they would one day join forces to start a company focused on music with the help of social media. George, Read More...