Author Archives: Rishi Chowdhury

About Rishi Chowdhury

Co founder of YHP, founder of IncuBus Ventures, online marketing consultant & host of one of London's top entrepreneurial events (Flagons Den). Regularly found networking around Tech City, convincing myself I'm working. Working for the future, living for the moment.

Lauren Craig Uses Flower Power to Start Up Her Own Company Entrepreneurs

29 year old Lauren Craig is the founder and owner of ‘Thinking Flowers?’ an environmentally ethical floral design consultancy company founded in 2003. After only 7 years, Lauren has combined and r Read More...

Chloe Spencer has been earning thousand each month since she was 14! NeopetsFanatic.com Entrepreneurs

Chloe Spencer, 19, started a blog aged 14. This blog was a Neopets, a Nickelodeon owned game, fan site. The site has been extremely popular and on some pages she can boast over 5,000 comments. She mon Read More...

Zungzi to invest in Young Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship

It was announced today that Bloomingfeld Ltd, an environmental consulting and engineering group based in London, is to setup a seed capital investment unit called Zungzi. The aim of which will be to s Read More...

A Week to Inspire – GEW 2010 Entrepreneurship

As you may know it is Global Entrepreneur Week 2010 (15th-21st Nov), ending on Friday. A worldwide movement filled with entrepreneurial events and activities to promote entrepreneurship as a viable ca Read More...

Dating for 5 years and starting a music group – Karmin Entertainments & Art

During the week, I caught with an acoustic-pop duo called “Karmin”. The group comprises of Amy Heidemann who plays the guitar and sing lead vocals while nick slaps a wooden box, called a ‘cajon Read More...

Entrepreneurship: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Entrepreneurship

When people think about entrepreneurship, it often the possible lifestyles that people think about. The freedom of working your own hours, control of your business, the money being able to retire at 3 Read More...

Francis Yeung and Nick Troen founders of Poncho No. 8 Entrepreneurs

Francis Yeung and Nick Troen are the 25 year old founders of Poncho No. 8, a Cali-Mex gourmet food business. The company is based in London, but the idea comes after the pairs numerous visits across A Read More...

Not Deterred by Redundancy Gemma Stone Founds Rock and Ruby Start-Ups

Young Female Entrepreneur, Gemma Stone, started her company Rock and Ruby after she took redundancy once the Granada, ITV merger occurred. She had been working in an event management capacity at the t Read More...

Silicon Valley, in East London? Be Inspired

David Cameron today announced his vision for a ‘Silicon Valley’ in the East End of London. The high-tech hub to be based at the site of the Olympic village after 2012 has already attracted investm Read More...

A Halloween Entrepreneur, Sean Fitzpatrick Entrepreneurs

Sean Fitzpatrick is an entrepreneur who turned his hobby of pumpkin carving into a viable business. Before starting his own company full time he worked as a mechanic, but after his young daughter aske Read More...

It’s Official YHP Connect is here! Events

That’s right YHP is hosting a networking event in London on the 23rd November 2010 between 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM (GMT) Event Details ABOUT The YHP Connect is a monthly meet up where entrepreneurs Read More...

Ooshma Garg, Founder of Anapata Entrepreneurs

22 year old young entrepreneur, Ooshma Garg is the founder of Anapata (means ‘find, attain, and achieve’ in Swahili). Anapata is a networking platform aimed at connecting diverse law students, att Read More...

Model Entrepreneur, Sarah Finlay founds Miss COCO Entrepreneurs

Sarah Finlay last year graduated from Glasgow University where she studied Geography. Now she is a young entrepreneur after starting her own confectionary company, Miss COCO. In the last year of her u Read More...

It took her only 6 months to turnover £1.46 million, Jessica Grosvenor Entrepreneurs

Jessica Grosvenor is a 25 year old British entrepreneur, who, on the 13th October won the much coveted Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010. After a gruelling day in front of the judges, Read More...

10 reasons why many start-ups fail Start-Ups

You might have realised that today’s date is 10.10.10 and so in honour here is 10 reasons why many start-ups fail: 1.) Dreaming: The first reason why start-ups fail is because they never get started Read More...