Claire Young, an apprentice finalist and youth enterprise trail blazer, is launching TeenBiz in November.
TeenBiz is the UK’s first business start up scheme aimed at teens 13-18. It will launch 1st November, to coincide with Global Entrepreneurship Month.
From the 1st January every month one student will receive up to £500 funding (they must match what we give them), a mentor and a start up pack. TeenBiz calls it’Business in a Box’ because it equips students with the items they need...
To be successful, your startup needs to offer a benefit to people that they need or want. In every case the benefit you want to deliver to people has been met by some other product or service before you came along.
Before the cell phone there was the land line, before the land line there was the telegraph, before the telegraph there were letters. If you develop a new brand of laundry detergent you are competing with every existing brand on...
“The international price for gas, I am afraid, is going up”. Not the words we wanted to hear from Phil Bentley, Managing Director of British Gas this week, but they do reflect the reality of the situation.
Phil Bentley’s comments set the tone for a meeting of the big 6 energy suppliers, Ofgem and government Energy Secretary Chris Huhne to discuss the state of the domestic energy market in the UK.
As a result of this meeting and the drive to make...
As recently reported in the Guardian, the UK’s addiction to gadgets is translating into higher emissions and higher energy bills. While the Guardian was addressing costs in the home, the truth is that businesses the UK are falling prey to the same higher costs.
More computer screens, more tablets, more phones…every device you plug in comes with a cost that goes beyond the purchase price. Use the following checklist to make sure you’re doing your part to conserve energy and to...
Etsy.com is the leading sales solution for independent designers and craft-based businesses in the world. Setting up a Etsy shop takes just a few minutes, but the storefront application is sophisiticated enough to support a custom user interface hundreds of products, and several payment methods.
Designers can even connect their domain name to an Etsy store. Just buy a domain on GoDaddy.com or any other domain name provider, then “forward” that domain to the Etsy store. The...
Whether I like to or not, change is afoot at School for Startups, the social enterprise I founded 4 years ago to help people start new businesses in the UK and around the world. Triona, my trusted and loved Marketing Director, is heading back to Australia and she is leaving a very large hole in our business. So we are looking for a new director of Marketing.
If you don’t know much about us, we have trained well over 10,000 people...
When you work for School for Startups, you learn something new every day. It’s one of the best parts of the gig. Sometimes we’re running events here in the UK, sometimes we’re off to other countries to help aid economic development, sometimes we’re working with sponsors, and sometimes we’re developing curricula. That kind of task diversity results in new insights all the time.
Well, this week…
Doug Richard has said a thing to me about thirty times in the last few months and...
Founder2Be is a unique web-based enterprise dedicated to helping people who want to start new enterprises find compatible co-founders. We recently interviewed Founder2Be to learn more about how their service works and how it got it’s start.
Question: Who founded your business and what are their backgrounds?
Founder2be was co-founded by Oliver Bremer and Frank Haubenschild from Germany. Oliver has M.Sc. in Computer Science and has worked for Nokia until 2007 and for Strands until the end of 2010. He then quit...
James Layfield and Steve Pette are founders of a new entrepreneur support solution called Central. We decided to interview them about their new venture and the solutions it brings to business owners in the UK.
1. How did you come to start your business?
James Layfield, serial entrepreneur, says “I started out in advertising working with brands such as Absolut Vodka, Sony Playstation and Virgin. Headhunted at 23 by Virgin, within 3 years I was Virgin’s youngest ever MD. I left...
The Marketing Academy Scholarship Program: Over 80 industry leaders and 28 executive coaches have agreed to give their time for free, including CEO's, CMO's and MDs of both agency and client companies, trade organisation and academia. The 2011 mentor line up includes Mikah Martin-Cruz CMO of Microsoft, Charmaine Eggberry SVP Marketing at Nokia, Amanda McKenzie CMO of Aviva, Moray MacLennan Worldwide CEO at M&C Saatchi, Cilla Snowball Chairman & CEO of AMV and Yasmin Diamond Director of Communications at the Home Office.
