20 UK Startups of 2011
The UK entrepreneurial scene is certainly coming together, with all its inadequacies – Investment, Billion dollar exits etc. It is certainly coming together. In a year where other businesses have been forced to close down, others have being unable to keep up with competitors. It’s always good to take some time to reflect, praise and [...]
Top 10 European Startups 2011
2011 has seen some fantastic startups really making a name for themselves in the UK, but also in the rest of Europe. I have made a list of whom I believe to be the top 10 European startups of 2011. Now I know there are loads missing I could of made this list the top [...]
Video Interview – YHP Talks To Michael Acton Smith CEO & Founder Of Mind Candy
I recently had the chance to interview Michael Acton Smith, the charismatic CEO & founder of Mind Candy, one of the most successful startups in the UK. Based in Shoreditch in an area dubbed ‘Silicon Roundabout’ Mind Candy has gone from a position of almost going bust to building Moshi Monsters which has seen it’s [...]
Being A Young Entrepreneur
The amount of startups founded by young entrepreneurs under the age of 20 is rapidly on the rise. The latest teenage generation are the first too have grown up with the internet, and with the ease of access when it comes to starting a business online many bright entrepreneurs have emerged whilst still in their [...]
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Q/A session with Henrik Berggren – Founder of Readmill
26 January 2012
So much has been said over the past few years about: The rise of the ebook, the death of traditional publishing, the emergence of self publishing and If your moving away from physical books into the Kindle and ibooks world then you will probably love Readmill. I invited the founder, Henrik Berggren on YHP to [...]
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Techcity and the day after tomorrow for young entrepreneurs in Britain
25 January 2012
Editor’s Note: Michael Tyrimos is co-founder at Synups and the Cypriot Enterprise Link. He was awarded as the “NACUE President of the Year 2010”, and as a “Leader of Tomorrow” at the 41st St Gallen Symposium. Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate of King’s College London. Over [...]
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25 January 2012
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Talking early beginnings, aiHit, bootstrapping and investments – with Jens Lapinski
25 January 2012
I recently interviewed Jens Lapinski, the founder of aiHit, a London-based, VC-backed business information services company and recently one of the new members of the entrepreneur in residence at Forward Internet Group. In our interview, he shares some of his knowledge and advices on starting a business, raising investment, bootstrapping and advices for aspiring and [...]
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Introducing – Europe’s first ever venture capital competition exclusively for students
24 January 2012
Anthony Silver, the former President of the LSE SU Entrepreneurs incumbent ‘Pitch It!’ business planning competition has decided to take his business planning competition a step further to start ESS. It all started after the initial success of ‘Pitch It!’ and feedbacks began to roll in, some of it stated the obvious need of a [...]
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Interview with Ville Vesterinen – Co-founder and CEO of Location-based mobile company, Grey Area
24 January 2012
I recently spoke to Ville Vesterinen about his latest startup Grey Area Labs. Ville Vesterinen is the Co-founder and CEO of the Location-based mobile company and prior to joining Grey Area Labs, Ville Co-founder ArcticStartup – dubbed as the Northern European TechCrunch and he is also a member of the Investment Council at Finnish Industry [...]
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How Ryan Notz went from stonemasonry to MyBuilder with the aim of fixing the UK construction industry.
23 January 2012
After becoming frustrated with agencies setting him up with work that didn’t quite meet his skill sets, Ryan decided to do the only possible thing – disrupt the construction industry in the UK. From waking up in the middle of the night screaming “we are going to be rich” to his wife then running down [...]
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Q/A session with Vladimir Oane – Founder of uberVU
23 January 2012
I briefly caught up with Vladimir Oane, founder of uberVU – uberVU is an end-to-end social intelligence dashboard which is used to track and monitor all social media platforms in real-time. In our conversation, I ask Vladimir a few questions on his journey so far as an entrepreneur and running uberVU, and how his business [...]
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Europe’s largest holiday rental website – Interview with Arnaud Bertrand, founder of HouseTrip
20 January 2012
I admit it! I was abit jealous, in some ways I find Arnaud and my path a bit similar – I guess in the whole starting a Housetrip kind of website thingy – I actually did start it, this was before I knew anything about raising money and anything like that in university and ask [...]
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How Blipfoto became a Bafta award winning website – Interview with Joe Tree
20 January 2012
On a rainy Sunday afternoon in October 2004, Joe decided to spend the day setting up a simple website in his bedroom where he can post a picture a day and write something about it. The idea was simple. This website he called Blipfoto and started doing it as an hobby, an hobby and website [...]
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