If there’s one thing that the Prince’s Trusts proves, it’s that you’re never too young to be a business owner. Helping disadvantaged young people across the UK, the Prince’s Trust can give youngster between the ages of 18 and 30 the chance to turn their lives around and set up their own shop – online or otherwise.
As always, this year saw another group of talented young individuals rewarded for their determination – from beauty bars to art groups, the Prince’s Trust has seen the birth of a wealth of innovative young businesses; all set up by people who didn’t have such a good start in life.…
Kickstarter is gaining momentum as a popular way to fund creative projects online. This is good news for small creative businesses that are struggling for funding. If you have a great project but little capital to get it up and running, maybe Kickstarter can help get that film/album/art-book off the ground.
The site works like this: You can build your own page where you set out your project, including the amount of money required funding it. If people like your pitch then backers will pledge money.…
For those of us who have even a basic wireless broadband connection, dialup internet seems like something from a bygone age, but for people living in remote areas, it was the only way in which they could access the web in the first place. As a sign of how some providers see it as being obsolete, BT recently announced that, from September 1st, they would no longer offer dialup internet.
It might not seem like the most drastic thing to do, but for a few thousand customers who couldn’t get anything else, they have been left wondering what they can do in order to remain connected.…
Not a day goes by when we don’t hear about some new innovation in the world of technology – increasingly, the kind of tech upgrades you can expect are all about making life easier for us. We don’t need to walk into town to buy food anymore – we can order it online. We don’t need to go out and buy a recipe book – we can just download an app to help us out with the cooking.
Because eCommerce continues to grow, it’s no surprise that businesses are increasingly turning to internet innovations to sell their products.…
Businesses from around the United Kingdom attended a prestigious event held by Her Royal Majesty the Queen on 23rd July in honour of their success in the previous years. This year’s event saw one of the most highly coveted awards granted to those businesses which started small and blossomed into hugely successful enterprises.
Some of the businesses honoured at the event were so humble in their beginnings, they attribute their success to work at the kitchen table!
Filling a hole
Thea Green, founder of Nails Inc.,…
Their apps and websites are familiar, and millions of us use them every single day – but how many of us really know anything about the entrepreneurs behind some of our favourite phone apps and websites? The massive popularity of their apps has taken the innovators by surprise, too.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
Kevin Systrom studied at Stanford University and went on to do an internship at Odeo, the company Twitter originated from. After two years with Google, he met Mike Krieger, a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer, and in 2010 the pair went on to found Instagram, the photo sharing app for mobile phones that allows users to take pictures on their smartphones, customise them and share them on the app or via Twitter and Facebook.…
It’s an exciting time for start-ups. With technology moving at such a rapid speed, there’s always something new on the horizon. And there’s no better feeling than knowing that you were onto something before it was cool. So, if you want to be ahead of the curb, here are six startups who you should start paying close attention to, because what they’re doing is bound to be the next big thing.
Tastes Like Chicken
With sustainability on every innovator’s mind right now, this start-up is trying to see how we can consume less of the world’s resources in what we eat.…
Kickstarter, for those who’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, is one of the hottest start-ups this side of the Sun. Through it, everyone from your neighbor to the biggest names in art, science, and the wildly creative can post a project, and provided it’s good enough (or at least not boring), people from all over the world can donate, crowd=funding the project(s) to fruition and getting some nice bonuses for their trouble. Sometimes, though, things don’t turn out as planned.…
Bloomberg Current is one of the latest business social networking sites which I think deserve more buzz than it has right now. What is it and why you should join it?
I am a long time user of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Business Exchange (BX.) It’s a news sharing site in which we can either post news pieces or blog posts and discover the latest updates on any business topics you want.
I use BX for 2 reasons: Promoting my content and finding stories to blog about and/or share to my social network.…
Planning is a crucial part of setting up a business. Apart from knowing the kind of business that you want to start, you have to plan where you will set it up. Location will determine the success of your business, so you need to know which cities are best in which to start a business. Here is a short list of U.S. cities where you can successfully start your own business.
Dallas, Texas
This is a metropolitan area with a population of about 6.5 million people.…
