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Global Entrepreneurship Week: November 2016

How many times have you sat down and thought about starting your own business? Global Entrepreneurship Week was created to encourage people to go it alone, become business leaders and create the successful businesses of the future. The aim of this week-long celebration of everything entrepreneurial is designed to get you and your friends talking […]

The Dragons’ Den is Back and as Brilliant as Ever

For all you committed inventors and innovators out there, Dragons’ Den is no doubt one of your favourites TV programmes. Not only do you get to look at some brilliant business and design ideas, there are some epic fails in there every week as well. For budding entrepreneurs it’s an excellent and entertaining way to […]

#VOOM is coming? Are you ready

#VOOM 2016 gives you the opportunity to pitch to Rich; are you ready? #VOOM is a supercharged way in which innovators can get their idea into the open and in the hands of a manufacturer/backer. Through their broadband streaming software and the 2016 VOOM pitching competition, the chance to have your product appear in the […]

Dragons’ Den Season 13 shows a key problem in startup businesses

Businesses are failing to adequately assessing their worth prior to pitching While the show continues to grow in its viewers, those that are actually invested in the show have shown a decline in their business value. This is not to say that the businesses/inventors are not offering quality products, but that those seeking to have […]

What's your invention or idea worth?

How much is my idea worth? by Lawrence J. Udell (Lawrence J. Udell is co-founder and executive director of The Center for New Venture Alliance. He has extensive “hands-on” experience in new product development and management of small businesses, including establishing more than twenty corporations in the last 40 years.) What are they? Where do [...]

The Apprentice starts Wednesday 14 October on BBC 1

A student, a Victoria Beckham wannabe and a builder: The Apprentice is hitting our screens again and viewers are in high anticipation as there is a new member of the panel in town and eighteen fresh outspoken candidates ready to face Lord Sugar. The wait is almost over as we wait for eighteen hopefuls to […]

Crowdfunding Round-Up: September 2015

There's been a lot happening in the crowdfunding world this month, so let's get right to the news! Global Crowdfunding Now Worth €30 Billion; Changing the Global Banking System According to data from Massolution reported on Consultancy.uk, the global crowdfunding market is now at €30 billion, with at least €2 billion in the UK alone. […]

Crowdfunding Latest News in the First Quarter of 2015

In 1997, both the Internet and crowdfunding were new concepts in the UK. Crowdfunding originally gave business owners who were frustrated with the application process and structure of traditional bank loans the opportunity to raise funds according to their own terms. A donation in exchange for a tangible reward as well as peer-to-peer funding were […]