Perseverance
A few hours ago I was yet again reminded of my grandiose act of philanthropy, when I received a backers’ update from Kickstarter. The update was related to a project...
Category "Innovate"
Tea Monkey - Competing With Giants
Nowadays you can’t turn a street corner without being bombarded by the intoxicating aroma of coffee. High street cafés have always been popular, but in the past decades they seem...
The Best Marketing Campaign of 2013
Branding is the second thing that an Entrepreneur must know how to accomplish after building a product. Marketing is what you do to build a brand in order to encourage...
10 Great Videos For Entrepreneurs By Entrepreneurs
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves, we were all self-employed…finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. As civilization came, we suppressed it....
Enterprising But Unsure Where To Start? Read This
I am sure I speak for many people when I say that I want to become an entrepreneur - it is one of my main goals in life. In fact thinking...
3 Reflections on Building a Business
I spent the last winter building a small online business and as my trading window came to a close I had a chance to reflect on some of the main broader...
Be First In The Market And Win
Innovation means being first in the market. If you are not the first, you are not innovating, but you are trying to improve something that is already present. That’s why...
Pivot, The Art of Changing Everything At Any Time
In your Entrepreneurial journey you will find many challenges, obstacles and problems; but at any time you will always have to consider one single thing, Pivoting. We have already focused...
Coding for Entrepreneurs - A First Look
Whenever I type the letter ‘k’ into my browser’s address field, I tend to find that Google Chrome auto-completes it with the complete ‘Kickstarter.com’ URL. This usually brings a smile...
Finding the Perfect Business Partner
Entrepreneurship can be a lonely path, long hours, hard work and problems that people outside of your business just don’t understand. That is why many people look to find a...
PressReader - The More You Read The More You Think
Newspapers are not going to be printed anymore, and there is an app that is thinking about it. It’s PressReader, a killer newspaper app for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone...
UPs, An Interesting Sweet
UPs SolidEnergy is our innovative new caffeine energy sweet which we launched in Manchester, January 2013. Kaffeination consists of four founders, three of whom studied together in Manchester doing their...
Hire People Who Believe In What You Believe
— Firstly Published Here. Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs. It is so easy to use that word without really focusing on what it really means. An Entrepreneur is someone who believes in...
Building A Brand - The Apple Case
Branding is one of the most crucial things an Entrepreneur or a business related person must understand. When you build a brand about a product or a website, you create...
Become Who You Were Born To Be
When I was a child, I wanted to become a biologist. I wanted to take care of the sea, understand nature and try to improve the current conditions of our...
Foursquare, A Feature Or A Product?
In the last couple months there haven’t been much talk about Foursquare and what it is doing in New York. On the other hand, those few rumors we heard were...
Airtime, Three Months Later
Airtime, the long awaited startup led by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, is three months old. Three months are nothing for a startup and they probably don’t mean anything in...
Review: “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries
After reviewing Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson, we decided to follow our entrepreneurial journey with “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. I have personally read this book, so I...