I was recently told of a Spanish saying which states that ‘money hides’. Never has this been more real. Last week we wrote an article on  ‘Banks Battle Entrepreneurs’ which got a flurry of entrepreneurs contacting me with their particular war stories. Shocking. The reality is things are even worse than I thought. You see, [...]

Getting enough funds to start a new business sometimes feels as likely as winning the lottery! But there is a silver lining – at least in the UK. Hi-tech startups can apply for the all new UK Innovation Investment Fund. Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that life sciences, plus digital and advanced manufacturing businesses are at [...]

Entrepreneurs can change the world. Will you?

Serafima Bogomolova, publisher, entrepreneur at Innovatrs, tireless globetrotter and seeker of experiences, co-founded Avantoure magazine, a modern lifestyle publication. We interviewed her recently. Avantoure is available exclusively in digital format and can only be purchased online. It focuses on inspirational individuals, adventurous travels, virtual world trends, international lifestyle and cultural issues. Innovatrs: What made you [...]

Just when the world thinks it has a handle on the process of innovation Apple changes the game. You see conventional wisdom dictates that innovation either bubbles up from below at startups or from the outside at a remote R&D lab or – God forbid – by McKinsey. Some bright spark comes up with a [...]

Michael Lenox, from the Batten Institute, talks about Green/clean technology and entrepreneurship. The video interview provides a neat summary of the factors driving adoption of ‘green’ technologies and services. Check it out.

Once this Great Depression is said and done there’ll be a smoking gun byline left hanging in the pungent air: ‘The battle between banks and entrepreneurs’. I cannot think of one conversation I’ve had with an entrepreneur in the last year – and we talk to a great deal – which did not include them [...]

Rob Wirszycz is an active member of Innovatrs entrepreneur network and a rare, serial Chairman of innovative, early stage tech and Web start-ups. He shares his experiences and insights with us. Innovatrs: What made you do it? Why did you take the plunge, become an entrepreneur and give up that cosy corporate job opp? Rob: [...]

In this digital era, where intellectual property focused start-ups are the new norm, positioning is paramount. Take a recent, high profile example, Apple’s iPad. The last year or so we have been peppered with media buzz around the tablet. Then bingo, we discover Apple’s answer to this new hardware category – the iPad. Apple, behind [...]

Interesting interview with Offerpal’s CEO Anu Shukla on ‘What is Entrepreneurship?’.

This video reveals the future of computer interfaces – today. Innovative, powerful, stunning. Engadget shared it with us – click here to read full article. Locus OS Interface from Barton Smith on Vimeo.

Dr Dan Nicolau, engineer, mathematician, biologist and entrepreneur at Innovatrs co-founded Altitude Medical in Oxford, UK in 2007 . Altitude Medical is an innovative company that aims, through the development of inexpensive and user-friendly devices, to reduce the number of life-threatening infections, both in private and in public buildings. Innovatrs: What made you do it? [...]

At Innovatrs we get to chat with a number of interesting VC’s and funds across the US and Europe. Many of them are all hot and bothered about green and clean tech startups. They’re scouring solar, wind, wave, agriculture and other energy innovators for the next big, er, well, Enron! Enron? How uncool is that? [...]

Peter Jones, entrepreneur and Dragon’s Den dragon, shares 10 rules for entrepreneurial success. A little preachy in style but the content’s spot on!

What can you learn from others’ mistakes? Mike Butcher over at Techcrunch wrote a great article about European startup failures in 2009. We support the ‘lessons learned’ approach taken. We’d like to add one more to the list: Storytlr. We used Storytlr as a tool for some of our businesses in the past and loved [...]

Vincent Bryant, father and entrepreneur at Innovatrs, tells us about his venture, PI Consulting, which specialises in designing and delivering effective and sustainable business performance improvement projects and corporate transformation programmes. PI Consulting works across a wide range of sectors including: financial services, manufacturing, distribution, agriculture, retail, SME’s and not for profit organizations. Innovatrs: What [...]