The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT in Boston was set up as a fellowship program to help MIT students build and scale their ventures through “principled, entrepreneurial leadership”. The center also provides seed grants and travel expenses for “students looking to explore and experience global innovation-driven entrepreneurship (IDE) opportunities”, as well as …
Sole Trader – An Accountant Turned Entrepreneur Is Using 3D Scanners To Help Women Create Their Perfect Shoe
If it hadn’t been for a perfectly fitting slipper, where would Cinderella be today? Such is the historical importance of footwear in our lives – and the arguments rage as fiercely today as they ever did – should women be forced to wear heels to work – when are flats the right option, and are …
Sustainable Sundried? Ethical Sportswear Brand For Triathletes, Cyclists and Runners Launches CrowdCube Campaign To Raise £125k
Sundried clothing is a new business being launched by Daniel Puddick, the entrepreneur behind Sunglasses Shop, acquired by Precision Eyewear in 2010 An ActiveWear clothing brand led by a successful entrepreneur and design graduate, and with a founding team that includes designers who have worked with household names like LuluLemon and Sweaty Betty, has launched …
Silicon Roundup; The Good Ship Startup Plots A Course Through The Brexit Storm
Whilst everyone in London discusses a potential “Brexit”, startup’s are quietly getting on with the job of scaling There’s been good news for maturing early stage startup’s based in London in the past week. It’s good to see the seed / Angel / VC model working just like it’s supposed to. Last week, Polystream founders …
Bridging The Equity Divide – Syndicate Room Announces Latest Funding Round & Report Gauging Size Of Investor Appetite
Syndicate Room’s latest raise, formally announced last night in front of a packed crowd at The Mermaid Theatre, begun at 9am today; a new report released by the firm suggests appetite for equities and IPOs is stronger than ever. 1 year ago Syndicate Room, the Crowdfunding platform with a unique investment model that allows online …
From The Outback To Mayfair Via The Concrete Jungle; Apprentice Winner Mark E Wright Lifts The Lid On Life As Sir Alan Sugar’s Business Partner
Apprentice winner Mark E Wright at The Royal Institute. His business acumen is as sharp as his one-liners Don’t waste your time worrying about what Sir Alan Sugar thinks about you! It sounds like a bizarre statement coming from a winner of The Apprentice TV show, but the point is well made. All will be …
Lobster, The Marketplace For Discovery And Licensing Of Your Creative Content, Smashes Crowdfunding Target – But There’s Still Time To Invest!
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a professional photographer – supplying the fruits of your work to top media agencies like Mashable? Sites like Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook are making it possible to show the world how creative you can be – but with 1.8 billion photos being shared on social media every …
Solavore Cuts Price Of “Buy One Give One” Indiegogo Campaign Offer For Its Solar Ovens
Solavore Sport ovens trap heat from the sun and reduce the need for women in Africa and Asia to gather firewood To celebrate “Giving Tuesday” a women-owned social enterprise is offering to donate one Solavore Sport solar oven to one of their aid programs in India, Cambodia or Kenya for a limited time when backers …
Fun Augmented Reality Pop-Up Game For Ipad Starting At $39 Is About To Launch On Indiegogo
John Zhao is an entrepreneur, designer and the founder of AR school in China, a team of graphic designers and consultants with a background in teaching and education who make, amongst other things, cool Augmented Reality games for kids. John’s attempts to impress his 5 year old daughter by designing some “AR” game cards have …
Tip TV founders to launch Intelligent Crowd, a TV show for discerning Crowdfunders
Ever wanted to begin crowdfund investing, but didn’t know how to find the heroes amongst the zeroes? Maybe you should spend an hour in the company of Shane Smith, the driver behind Intelligent Crowd TV. Not only does he have an expert’s knowledge of how equity crowdfunding really works, his latest venture is making it …
Hello World launches Indiegogo campaign to bring solar powered digital education hubs to 2 million children by 2019
When Dr. Sugata Mitra left a computer connected to the internet in a hole in the wall in a New Delhi slum in 1999, he wasn’t quite sure what the results might be. He had done so in order to test his belief that, even in the absence of a formal education system, children would …
Sponsoring fun smart tracker Fizzly’s Crowdfunding campaign could be the smartest bit of shopping you do for the family this Christmas
Now that more emphasis than ever before is being placed on “playing smart”, i.e. providing one’s family with gifts that are not just fun to play with, but educational as well, one Italian company has launched a Crowdfunding campaign to raise capital for a product that could provide the perfect solution. Fizzly. The campaign is …
Home Flood prevention solution Hydroguard launches rewards based funding campaign on Indiegogo
Now that the hot weather is over it is time to start worrying about being frozen and flooded. Excuse the cynicism, but given our government’s recent record of response to crises of an environmental nature it seems we would do well to take as much personal responsibility as we can. …