A few days ago we focused on Finnish innovation. Now it’s time for a look at Israel, another small country punching above its weight. Israel has an unusually high number of engineers per capita, products of the highly-esteemed Technion university in Haifa. Israel is also rated just behind the US in the number of companies [...]

As the world gets rebooted for Web 3.0 and its ‘Social’ revolution we thought it was time to take a look at the new style – Entrepreneur 3.0. You see the concept of start-up is shifting from its traditional roots where capital is its key constraint to a new ‘DIY venture’ where knowledge is everything. [...]

We’re starting a weekly series highlighting some of the cooler entrepreneurs at Innovatrs, so exposing their nifty ideas and start-ups to you – the wider audience. First up is SubHub. They are a Cardiff based company offering a cost effective, Web based platform to help you easily design, publish and promote your content site and [...]

Earlier this year, we asked why there are so few entrepreneurial start-up queens in the business world today.  There are only nine women CEO’s out of all the Fortune 500 companies. In Europe, only 30% of small businesses are owned by women. And yet more than half of graduates are female. So why are CEO’s and politicians still predominantly male?

There is only one secret to a successful start-up and it’s YOU! Entrepreneurs and would be entrepreneurs spend their lives trying to figure out the secret to a successful start-up. Investors make a living out of trying to select and back the very best business models for the future. Everyone’s chasing dreams.

Gijsbert Koren is a graphic designer, and creative entrepreneur at Innovatrs. He has a varied portfolio, containing entrepreneurial, design engineering, conceptual design and free art projects. Gijsbert co-founded Mooze Design- a graphic design agency with his business partner, Shyam Soni.

Most entrepreneurs make the painful mistake early on of not taking the name of their start-up seriously enough. They almost always regret it later. And it’s not for the obvious reasons. It’s not necessarily because they’ll find it harder to differentiate from the competition when it comes.

Entrepreneur Andrew Rickman OBE (far left), is the founder and former non-executive chairman of Bookham,  the one-time second largest fibre optics telcom component producer in the world. Andrew set up the company as a start-up in 1988 and helped launch it to an FTSE100 company as CEO.

Tomas Mendoza, entrepreneur at Innovatrs and managing director and founder of fonmigo, talks about the difficulties of landing a first-time job after university graduation, the merits of starting up his own company and the importance of pursuing a dream career-path.

After watching this video, the first thoughts to enter your mind are the classic differences between entrepreneurs and employees.

William Pryor, Innovatrs entrepreneur and Founding Director and CEO at Eclector, tells us about his business and how he started it. William, who is the great, great grandson of Charles Darwin, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

One entrepreneur who really gets to ‘make a difference’. ‘The hangover cure’. How’s yours?

What is the most common line you’ve heard in the last 2 years? ‘Don’t start a business during a recession’. Am I right? Well, we’re still in an economic downturn but plenty of great start-ups have come out of it. In the business world opportunities never cease – so let’s turn this downturn into an [...]

“You had me at hello…” So went the famous line from Zellweger to Cruise in ‘Jerry MaGuire’. “You had me at positioning…” Or not – is the reality with investors. Particularly early stage investors. Your company’s strap line and one paragraph descriptor is the most important weapon you’ll ever have. Get it right. If you [...]

Richard Branson talks out on how entrepreneurs should build a start-up through the recession. Are you?

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 [...]

We thoroughly enjoyed reading a post by @asmartbear about keeping it real and small. Photo by simpologist via Flickr Some wise words and case studies in the article include: Your vision is to land $100k deals with big companies — and you will! But not today. Today your product is a shaky version one-dot-oh with [...]

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 [...]

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

I recently read a great article at Fast Company on focus groups. Focus groups are an interesting phenomenon – probably overused by big companies and underused by start-ups. But focus groups come with big ass health warnings. It’s better to use a focus group to help with small details and feedback rather than supporting 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.

The Glasshouse event in London last night ‘Show Me the Money’ was well attended with some interesting VC’s speaking including London’s latest – PRO Partners. It seems that Spotify and Playfish are the VC’s favorite ventures right now – proving that they still hunt in packs/follow each other like sheep. They repeated that venture investments [...]

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.