We usually think of geeks, techies, product developers et al as being glued 24/7 to their computer screens, but they actually, every once in a while, socialise OFFline and gather to drink beers and eat pizzas. Meetup.com, a NYC start-up, has become an offline social networking success story. Founded during the dotcom boom era, it [...]

Joining innovatrs has some great advantages for startups, entrepreneurs and innovative souls. Not least of these is the 7-stage, 49-phase, innovate framework which takes our extensive experience and knowledge to create one of the most practical startup frameworks you can imagine. So today I thought I’d give a little sneak preview into one of the [...]

It would be remiss of us not to mention the Linkedin IPO here at innovatrs. After all, it’s not just a staggering value, it’s not just opening up the ‘new bubble’ debate, but it is, let’s be truthful, the moment of which most entrepreneurs dream when they start tinkering with that piece of code in [...]

It’s been a busy week here at Innovatrs, but we’ve managed to lift the lid and delve into the world of startup competitions. With Monday’s post focussing on European startup contests, Tuesday’s looked at one of the winners from LeWeb 2010. But Wednesday’s post helped to show that it isn’t all about winning, whilst yesterday [...]

We don’t like spouting well-worn clichés here at Innovatrs. But sometimes, it’s just so difficult to avoid, especially if they’re fundamentally true to a point you’re trying to make. What we’re talking about here is winning. If you listened to your adult mentors as you were growing up, you probably heard that winning wasn’t the [...]

We’ve previously written about how innovators and entrepreneurs often build their ventures based on proven models and existing ideas. The ‘innovation’ part is how the existing pool of knowledge is used to progress an idea and create something unique. Innovation is about being smart and savvy, but that’s only one of the prerequisites. A successful [...]

There appears to be more to the headline – ‘Goldman Sachs investment values Facebook at $50bn’ -than it seems… The investment bank approached its best private wealth clients this week with a very special offer: the chance to buy into a fund that will own shares in one of the fastest growing and most socially relevant [...]

Scott Banister is well known for being an angel investor in Facebook, Powerset, Hi-5, Zappos and Zivity. In this video interview he tells us what he thinks about the current investing climate. Scott doesn´t believe angel investors are sitting on cash because they´re strapped. Rather, he thinks they’re just waiting for prices to drop.

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, [...]