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Why You Should Attend: PitchUp By The Think Collective, This Wednesday, Every Wednesday!

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PitchUp takes place Wednesday’s at citizenM Hotel, Shoreditch- get your ticket here…  When was the last time you set aside the startup hustle to mix with some genuinely fun, interesting and dynamic company, let your hair down…and throw some wacky ideas about? We know – it doesn’t happen as often as you’d think / like …

A Startup Marketplace For DIY Fans & Tradesmen With An Eco Twist Just Relaunched

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Reiss Salustro-Pilson and Nigel Van Wassenhove are two founders who believe that business should be a “force for good”, and “work and collaborate for the good of both humanity and nature by shaping our ecological impact”, and in that spirit the entrepreneurs have relaunched their online marketplace Enviromate, best described, possibly, as e-Bay for stuff …

Hot Start-up? turnleft App Helps Networkers Nail New Connections & Take Chance Out Of “Chance Encounters”

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An ex-trader who couldn’t resist the lure of entrepreneurship has created an app to help serial networkers gain a competitive advantage, and to try to address the 25% of business traveller’s time that is spent idle. turnleft, currently available for iOS, is an app that helps its users “build strong relationships at home and away …

The Wednesday Word: On Why Perfection Is A Waste Of Time, And Picking The Perfect Co-founder (Clue – You Can’t)

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Welcome to the hump – apropos of that, here’s some advice! What is perfection and how can anybody possibly achieve it? Let’s be honest, perfection exists outside the realms of our tiny minds, limited as they are by the subtle imperfections of everything we need to rely upon to make our modern lives possible. Was …

A Rating Agency For Startups and Innovative SMEs Is Coming To London

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can Early Metrics do what many VC and Angel investors can’t and identify and rate startups’ growth potential accurately? Opening a new office in London will surely help. Startups are strange beasts; they come in different shapes and sizes and it is notoriously hard to pick the winners from the losers (clue; the stats suggest …

Swedish Startup Match2One Has Raised £260k To Grab A Slice Of Rapidly Expanding Programmatic Advertising Pie

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Riding a wave of disruptive change in the ad-buying industry, Match2One’s platform offers startups and SME’s to work with the likeminded If you’re not yet familiar with programmatic advertising and what it’s all about then don’t worry too much, you’ll be hearing a lot more about it during the rest of 2016. Briefly, programmatic advertising …

What Is A Lead Investor And Why Do You Need One? They Are Gladiators, & If You Find One It’s Happy Days

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Whilst Ron Howard “made it”, made it, The Fonz had to make do with a role in The Waterboy – but still did pretty well. Echoes of the lead investor / founder relationship? Disclaimer – this article is pun ridden and uses stereotyping for “comic” effect The beauty of the tech startup world is that …

Ivo Spigel Just Published The Bible Of European Startup Success, & Launched It At Startup Bookshop Libreria!

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Spot the celebrity rockstar (founder)? Last Tuesday night Libreria, the tiny bookshop with the labyrinthine trompe d’oeil opposite the Second Home Incubator on Hanbury Street, owned by SH founder Rohan Silva and journalist Sally Davies, was the setting for the launch of journalist Ivo Spigel’s new book “The European Startup Revolution”. Ivo was interviewed by …

Serial Entrepreneurs vs. One Time Only Founders – What Are The Key Differences?

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Both love to build businesses, but they can be radically different personalities. One embraces the possibility of risk, the other guards against it; one doesn’t like to get bogged down in the day to day and thinks 3 days a month is sufficient time to give a project provided you ask the right questions; the …

Been there, Founded That – Got The Entrepreneur Hoodie?

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Yes, it’s a thing; nothing says “fund my start-up business” quite like a monickered hoodie. If that’s not a sentence you thought you would be hearing in 2016, then buddy, you are soo 2015! href=”http://www.entrepreneurhoodie.com/” target=”_blank”>The Entrepreneur Hoodie is the brain child of New York based entrepreneur (duh!) Derek Newton and young immigrant designer and …

London’s Top VCs: Balderton Capital, a big, blue chip VC where all partners are equal and market disruption is the goal

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This is part of a series looking at some of Europe’s best and brightest venture capital firms. We wanted to examine the psychology of VC investing by looking at the key players, who and what they invest in, how much they are investing and how founders can improve their chances of getting in front of …