Monthly Archives: January 2012

Top 20 UK Startups to watch in 2012 Start-Ups

Update: Check out our Startups to watch in 2013 list Hot on the heals of the top 20 entrepreneurs to watch, here are my top 20 UK Startups to watch in 2012. Their really are some great companies co Read More...

[NEF Interview series] Introducing Gordon McQuoid Entrepreneurship

Today, continuing with my NEF interview series, I speak to Gordon McQuoid. The Zimbabwe born 28 years old grew up in Harare before moving over to the UK just before his 19th Birthday. Gordon is curren Read More...

Raising over $166M in investment – A trip down memory lane with Sebastian Siemiatkowski of Klarna Interviews

I recently caught up with Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the founder and CEO of Klarna – one of Europe’s leading providers of payment solutions for e-commerce and took a trip down memory lane. He ta Read More...

Top 20 Young Entrepreneurs to watch in 2012 Entrepreneurs

 By Rishi Chowdhury   Each year we take a look at the young entrepreneurs, based in the UK, who we think are set to have a great year, you can see our 2011 list here, and this year is no &hellip Read More...

Q/A session with Henrik Berggren – Founder of Readmill Interviews

So much has been said over the past few years about: The rise of the ebook, the death of traditional publishing, the emergence of self publishing and If your moving away from physical books into the K Read More...

Techcity and the day after tomorrow for young entrepreneurs in Britain Entrepreneurship

Editor’s Note: Michael Tyrimos is co-founder at Synups and the Cypriot Enterprise Link. He was awarded as the “NACUE President of the Year 2010”, and as a “Leader of Tomorrow” at the 41s Read More...
Workplace Safety

Workplace Safety Health

Regulations abound for health and safety at work, and in some occupations there are obvious hazards connected with specific environments. A factory floor or a construction site are two examples where Read More...

Talking early beginnings, aiHit, bootstrapping and investments – with Jens Lapinski Entrepreneurship

I recently interviewed Jens Lapinski, the founder of aiHit, a London-based, VC-backed business information services company and recently one of the new members of the entrepreneur in residence at Forw Read More...

Introducing – Europe’s first ever venture capital competition exclusively for students Events

Anthony Silver, the former President of the LSE SU Entrepreneurs incumbent ‘Pitch It!’ business planning competition has decided to take his business planning competition a step further to Read More...

Interview with Ville Vesterinen – Co-founder and CEO of Location-based mobile company, Grey Area Interviews

I recently spoke to Ville Vesterinen about his latest startup Grey Area Labs. Ville Vesterinen is the Co-founder and CEO of the Location-based mobile company and prior to joining Grey Area Labs, Ville Read More...

How Ryan Notz went from stonemasonry to MyBuilder with the aim of fixing the UK construction industry. Entrepreneurship

After becoming frustrated with agencies setting him up with work that didn’t quite meet his skill sets, Ryan decided to do the only possible thing – disrupt the construction industry in th Read More...

Q/A session with Vladimir Oane – Founder of uberVU Entrepreneurship

I briefly caught up with Vladimir Oane, founder of uberVU – uberVU is an end-to-end social intelligence dashboard which is used to track and monitor all social media platforms in real-time. In o Read More...

Europe’s largest holiday rental website – Interview with Arnaud Bertrand, founder of HouseTrip Entrepreneurship

I admit it! I was abit jealous, in some ways I find Arnaud and my path a bit similar – I guess in the whole starting a Housetrip kind of website thingy – I actually did start it, this was Read More...

How Blipfoto became a Bafta award winning website – Interview with Joe Tree Entrepreneurship

On a rainy Sunday afternoon in October 2004, Joe decided to spend the day setting up a simple website in his bedroom where he can post a picture a day and write something about it. The idea was simple Read More...

[NEF Interview series] Introducing Rousseau Dasgupta Entrepreneurship

Using your university entrepreneurs society to ignite your entrepreneurial spark can be key to your journey as an entrepreneur and today I interview Rousseau Dasgupta as part of my NEF interview serie Read More...