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.

Working in a Start-up, Is it right for you? Start-Ups

First of all if you are thinking about working in a start up because of a potential large pay day, then it probably isn’t right for you! Working at a start-up is something else and tends to offer ve Read More...

Growing Business Awards 2010: Young Company of the Year shortlist Events

You may remember we profiled James Murray Wells who founded Glasses Direct in 2004, aged 22. Well, now a year after winning Growing Business Award 2009: Young Entrepreneur of the Year, his company Gla Read More...

A Facebook for Start-Ups, Angel list. Start-Ups

A new site, AngelList was started up in February 2010 by angel investors Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi. The site is a network which connects entrepreneurs with potential investors online. In the last Read More...

Sean Whalen doesn’t let gravity get in the way of his ambitions! Founder of AlterG Entrepreneurs

Sean Whalen founded his company AlterG in 2004, at the age of 23. Alter G sells an anti gravity treadmill which was originally designed for NASA astronauts but has been used mainly by top athletes. Th Read More...

EXCLSUIVE: The story so far – Interview with Daniel Mazano of Boyce Avenue Entertainments & Art

Hey Guys, I finally got the chance to do an exclusive interview with Daniel Mazano, the oldest brother of the Rock band – Boyce Avenue. I tried to leave the conversation very raw to keep it enga Read More...

Sarah Prevette founder of Sprouter! Entrepreneurs

Sarah Prevette is the founder of Sprouter, a collaboration tool for entrepreneurs where they can share knowledge and communicate with other entrepreneurs. So what is so unique about it? Well it is foc Read More...

Millionaire by the age of 18 – Josh Dziabiak founder of ShowClix Entrepreneurs

Josh Dziabiak is a 23 year old serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of ShowClix, which is a ticket selling platform. The difference being tickets are entirely distributed via text message and email, Read More...

Aaron Patzer making a ‘Mint.com’ Entrepreneurs

Aaron Patzer is the founder of Mint.com a financial services company started in 2006. He had the idea after wasting hours trying to organize his own finances through traditional computer programmes su Read More...

Soraya Darabi founder of Foodspotting has a hunger for success Entrepreneurs

Soraya Darabi is the founder of social networking food site Foodspotting. The site lets you find and upload specific dishes as opposed to restaurants. Foodspotting allows you to take a picture of the Read More...

Art student to programmer Leah Culver – One to Watch Entrepreneurs

Leah Culver is a young female entrepreneur currently residing in San Francisco. She was a co-founder and lead developer of the site Pownce at the age of 24. This was a free social networking and micro Read More...

Entrepreneur at heart – Dan Conlon Start-Ups

Dan Conlon is the founder of Donhost which he started in 2000. This was one of the most successful web hosting companies at the time, growing at a rapid pace and was eventually acquired by Pipex Commu Read More...

Farrah Gray – Self made millionaire at 14! Entrepreneurs

Farrah Gray is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and motivational speaker. He became a self made millionaire at 14 years old! Farrah started his first entrepreneurial venture at the age of just 6 Read More...

Foodzie Founder Emily Olson Start-Ups

Emily Olson is the founder of Foodzie, which was launched in December 2008, when she was 24. Foodzie is an online marketplace for artisanal food producers and growers. She came up with the idea after Read More...

Michael Mothner – How one interview changed this entrepreneur’s life! Entrepreneurs

Michael Mothner started working on Wpromote, a search engine optimization (SEO) company, in 2001, but he didn’t really fully take it on till 2004 after an infamous interview for a position at Goldma Read More...

Fraser Doherty – Founder of Super Jam Entrepreneurs

Fraser Doherty is the founder of Super Jam. It all started when he was 14 and his ‘Gran,’ as he calls her, taught him to make jam. The young Scot decided to commercialise the product in 2006. He d Read More...