A bird in the hand - By Stephen - February 19, 2010

Time and time again I hear of startups or small early stage businesses not taking investment when it is offered. This is normally due to a difference of opinion in valuation. The owner/founder always thinks his/her business is worth more than the investor.

The reality is that the startup or early stage pre-revenue business is only [...]


Money is like gold dust… - By Stephen - February 4, 2010

Money is like gold dust…particularly when it’s invested into a startup

One of the most galling issues for me over the years has been how quickly investment has been eaten up by poor cash management.

It is more often than not that the amount of money raised by entrepreneurs is underestimated and overspent.

Normally a plan is [...]


Manifesto for Entrepreneurs - By Stephen - February 2, 2010

As a follow-up to my last week’s blog  on the 20 issues every budding entrepreneur must be able to address, I would now like to talk about Doug Richards’ “Manifesto for Entrepreneurs”, a call-to-action document released at last week’s event.

According to Doug, a former TV Dragon, entrepreneurs are key in leading us out of the [...]


Growing a successful social enterprise - By Stephen - January 25, 2010

On Tuesday I attended an excellent seminar entitled “Growing a successful social enterprise http://www.schoolforstartups.co.uk/2010/01/20/growing-a-successful-social-enterprise-3/” run by Doug Richard’s School for Startups. The event centred around socially aware and ethical enterprises but the messages apply to all businesses starting out on the long road to success.

Doug has a charismatic delivery style and [...]


Ortegra Ireland to launch in December 09′ - By Rob Brennan - October 23, 2009

Ortegra is to launch its Irish Subsidary at Residence Private Members club on the 2nd of December. Ortegra Ireland plans to offer web design and development in addition to online marketing consultancy.
Orterga Ireland will also plan to offer incubation services to Start up companies looking at building a viable business on the web. Such services [...]


Jing Project - By Kevin Gardner - October 22, 2009

If you ever need a visual to explain something that your doing then check out http://www.jingproject.com/

It is a free app that installs onto your computer, for mac and pc, that enables you to:

Record video of your onscreen actions
Take snapshots & make comments
and then share to friends or work colleagues!

I really like this app & use [...]


Key to getting started! - By Jay Shah - September 25, 2009

Know and understand your core business model. If you have not yet defined this then put together a project definition or project scope of what you are trying to develop together with a mind-map mapping out your thoughts on paper.


Homehouse Party - By Kevin Gardner - September 21, 2009

Cannot wait until the Party at Homehouse. its going to be a blast!


Google Alerts - By Kevin Gardner - July 24, 2009

Google Alerts lets you input anything you want to know about if it appears on the web.

All you do is input the data you want to watch out for and confirm the alert e-mail when you receive it.

So every time Google’s mammoth indexing system finds mention of it, an alert is sent to your e-mail [...]


Free Fonts - By Kevin Gardner - July 24, 2009

www.dafont.com

Great font search engine – loads of categories to choose from, and available for download for mac or pc.

What I like about this site is the way you can enter your own characters, search for fonts and have tohose fonts display what you entered. I also like that you can search by font size – [...]