A must watch. Because every entrepreneur in this digital era needs to entertain, perform, ‘be fast on his feet’ and inspire. Can you?

A couple of seismic events occurred yesterday in the Web world. First up Facebook announced that they have 300 million registered users, $500 million in revenues for ’09 and are cashflow positive – all supporting their recent private equity valuation of $10 billion and a probable Facebook IPO in 2010. Meantime Twitter seems to have [...]

The problem with startup’s and PR and PR and startups is that all too often it gets into a depressing catch 22 cycle. You’re too small to get any PR attention but because your so small you desperately need it. You have to break the deadlock because PR is pretty much the only kind of [...]

Raising money from angel investors or VC’s is a stressful and complicated process – particularly in this climate. It needs to be done at the right time and in the right way. Try and raise money too early or without the right tools or docs and you’re guaranteed to crash and burn. And raising money [...]

Six weeks ago we quietly opened our doors to a cool new crowd platform – for entrepreneurs. A place where innovators of all kinds could come together, learn, share and network. A community of entrepreneurs wrapped around Innovate, our ground breaking start-up system and Innovation methodology. We made it free. And you started coming. Gathering [...]

A while ago I was told by one of my mentors that they key to any successful fundraising is finding, marketing to and closing ‘the lead’. It’s good advice. Just look at the maths. Leaders probably account for less than 1% of the population. That means the other 99% are followers. And followers follow a [...]

The @Google program features MakerBot, which is a potentially disruptive innovation, turning digital designs into physical objects. A great example of how to develop a cool innovation and how NOT to present it.

This insightful video examines the difference between disruptive innovation and sequential innovation. Most disruptive innovations involve business model innovations versus tech innovations – in fact the technology is often quite trivial. Twitter is a classic example.

Techfluff.tv has just relaunched. It’s good for keeping up with vids of la UK and Euro tech scene and young innovators.

This is a great series of interviews on the qualities needed to become a successful entrepreneur – hits the mark.

Branding is vital when it comes to launching and building a new company. There are way too many brands out there as it is – so make sure yours stands out. The name, logo and strapline need to tell people what you do – but more importantly ensure you stand above the crowd. So make [...]

Innovate’s (TM) start-up system starts with the @ha idea. Innov@te utilizes a process called CREATE-IVITY (TM) to generate ideas. Once an entrepreneur has developed their @ha idea they need to know what to do with it. Rushing straight from idea to venture is way too hit and miss. Equally, the world over, far too many people [...]

Randy Komisar from Kleiner Perkins on how the biggest successes can often be bred from failures. This is the kick off to Innovatrs ‘Fail to Succeed’ series.

Entrepreneurs chat at the latest blur’d event about why they became Entrepreneurs and what their biggest issue is right now. Check out – http://innovatrs.com

Innovatrs.com is sponsoring blur’d Meetups for entrepreneurs – initially in London. It is a private member monthly meetup on the West side of London for cool entrepreneurs. We hope it will unearth the next big idea and we plan to launch Innovatrs Start-up TV Network there in the coming months! Join us if you dare.

Innovatrs is excited to offer full, open access to the Innovate Wiki for anyone to use, learn from and add to. When we developed Innovate, with its 7 stages and 49 phases for taking an idea all the way through to a successful business, we always dreamed of it becoming an open source methodology that [...]

As we look out a few years one tremor looks inevitable: the digital big bang. The point at which the tipping trend to connected networks and devices explodes us into a new dawn. Today there are 3.5 billion mobile phone users each connected to one network or another – in cities across the globe many using [...]

TechCrunch recently put out a list of the top 100 ‘networked’ venture capitalists – following some interesting research. They defined ‘networked’ by the number of co-investors that they had in deals and rated firms by the number of exits they had achieved. The top 10 lists most of the usual suspects. Which got me thinking [...]

I was spoilt. Two companies ago I was introduced to Bill Draper III – a legend in Silicon Valley and reputedly the West Coasts king of early stage venture capital. He invested in the company I ran at the time and sat on its board. He was a legend for a good reason – he [...]

According to BusinessWeek There is growing evidence that the US’ innovation shortfall of the past decade is not only real but may also have contributed to today’s financial crisis. It seems that the major innovations promised just a decade ago, such as truly fast broadband for all, 3G everywhere, cures for cancer, electric cars and [...]

I have spent the last four and a half years studying, researching and developing the link between creativity and innovation. After all, I spent my early years surrounded by artists and art on the one hand (my mother is a well know art historian and curator) and the Letts media business on the other. In [...]

blur’d is hosting the first in a series of entrepreneur meetups in London tomorrow night, June 30th. blur’d Meetups are designed for interesting entrepreneurs launching or running somewhat disruptive and innovative ventures. blur’d also lets in select digital directors and innovation officers from large companies. They plan to do monthly, invitation only get togethers in [...]

IDEO video on what organizations will look like in 18 months. Not bad.

It’s day 1 at Innovatrs.com so it seems fitting that I should bang on about why I developed Innovate and as a result Innovatrs.com. 40 odd years ago I was born into the Letts publishing empire. The business was rocking. It had invented the diary way back in the late 1700′s and controlled the industry [...]