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Where are the Enterprise start-ups?

Last month Business Insider produced a piece called  ‘no more like this or we’ll scream’ which talked about the categories of startup which are now so saturated that there’s no point in trying to penetrate them. We probably recognise these ourselves – “not another photo sharing service”, more “very similar to what I saw yesterday daily [...]

Peeping into the innovate framework – your one-page strategy

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 [...]

Startup competitions: it’s the taking part that counts

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 [...]

Banks Battle Entrepreneurs

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 [...]

Start-ups Face a Funding Crisis

The blur Group blog has just written a great article, mentioning Innovatrs, on ‘Start-ups Starving for Investment; A Western Crisis’. We quote: ‘The western world is still in crisis. Following the financial tsunami of 2008/9 the West faces another emergency. As the dust settles on the economic meltdown it is becoming clear that not only [...]

So What Happens Next?

Photo by JoshuaDavisPhotography. COM via Flickr Once you’ve secured funding, you may be left wandering what’s the most plausible next step. Try this collection of complimentary tips on ReadWriteStart.