There’s nothing like the feeling you get seeing your new business in print for the first time, but PR is often seen as one of the great mysteries to startups, so here is a quick demystifying guide to how to get the best results. 1. Take your time building your story Go back to basics, What’s [...]

The Internet. Made for talking cats and skateboarding dogs. Oh, and innovative startups. So as we’re at that silly time of the year when people are trawling around Youtube looking for more cuddly things on video, we thought we’d show you 6 ways your startup is rather similar to your miaowing pal. 1. You own [...]

It seems like forever that Google have been on top of the world, both figuratively in a business context and quite literally, what with the organization’s penchant for camera satellites in outer space and one’s ability to ‘Google Map’ anything from the Taj Mahal to the Pyramids to your fifth grade teacher’s house. Google has [...]

As the new year approaches, we look back on 2010 and ask: Who have been the stand out startups? About.me: About.me was bought out by Internet giant A.O.L, less than week after the year-old company went live. The site serves as a homepage for a person’s online profiles, which guarantees it a huge potential market. [...]

Starting out alone in business can be scary. Exciting, but scary. Entrepreneurs are free from the constraints of the corporate lifestyle but the pressures are replaced by new and equally taxing challenges. And you’re on your own this time round. 

Fred Wilson is a New York-based venture capitalist and a prominet blogger. He is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Indeed.com, Oddcast,Disqus and Clickable.

In this video interview, Chris Sacca, talks about the sustainability of the ‘super angel’ model and how he put together his template for investors to reach financial success.

R. Wayne Steiger, entrepreneur at Innovatrs and founder of TME, talks about his experiences working with several successful start-ups and how he developed his latest venture. His new start-up, the wireless company TME, provides mobile payment solutions, along with other remote payment applications. TME utilizes Cloud Management Technology to solve some pretty complex issues.

Cloud computing has become one of the most talked about opportunities for start-up’s and small businesses. Today millions of SME’s use cloud computing to radically reduce their cost of IT, Web sites and social media marketing.

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.

Ron Conway, the iconic Silicon Valley investor, predicts how Cloud Computing will change the way technology is designed and delivered. It was filmed 18 months ago. Looks like he was right. Cloud Computing is disrupting traditional software and infrastructure models – for the better.

An excellent interview with David S. Rose, one of the most highly regarded Angel Investors in the USA. David Rose is an entreprenurial executive and investor with experience in high technology and communications,angel investments, finance and government. Described as ” The Father of Angel Investing in New York ” and a ” world conquering entrepreneur “,  David is Chairman of [...]

Great new start-ups are constantly getting launched – but hold on! Looking at the founders, something seems amiss… Yes, it’s the gender of the entrepreneurs! Where’s the women? With entrepreneurial DNA I don’t think anyone was talking about the ’Y’ chromosome that exists within men. No, it’s about having a great new idea and spotting an [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fundraising for your startup in 2010 is going to be a challenge. Not as bad as 2009 – but not a lot better. Here are some tips to help you get through the maze: 10. Wear a hard hat. 9. Have at least $£100,000 in annual revenues or the best free model since, er Twitter. [...]

Tim Ferriss is definitely an innovator. His book “The 4-Hour Workweek” ranked #1 New York Times Bestseller, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller and #1 BusinessWeek Bestseller. He recently shared advice for those starting up. The 4-Hour Workweek is a refreshing read for entrepreneurs. It’s a neat reminder to help you focus on your business while [...]

Most startups take 7-10 years before they establish themselves as real players in their respective industries. And those are the lucky ones. Yet the speed at which the world changes keeps accelerating. Future gazing, more than ever, is an essential skill for startup entrepreneurs. But how do you do it? Take a look at blur [...]

LeWeb is positioning itself as the must attend event for the Euro Tech scene – here’s a review of what we’ve seen to now. LeWeb’09 kicked off yesterday with some cool speakers and a few spicy announcements. Innovatrs connected online to the first few interventions and panel chats. We liked the input from Andrew Fisher [...]

Watch this video and get ‘connected’ to 3 key themes for 2010: Crowdsourcing, guerilla marketing and viral videos. Brush off your Flip.

The last year has been tough for startups. Very tough. Investors are not investing and customers are hard to find. We all need cash – but where to find it: investors or customers? Is it chicken or egg? Unfortunately not. For nearly all startups the answer is simple - CUSTOMERS come first. Unless you need a [...]

Governments are hell bent on regulating big business and banks. Not that they don’t deserve it. But where’s the focus on innovation? 100 years post industrialisation the world’s leading economies are controlled, even strangled, by monopolies or cartels. This does need to be governed – I just think the focus is wrong. Leading economies should [...]

There are a bunch of common mistakes startups make when trying to get to the top, here’s a list. Photo by iTopher via Flickr Feel the need to succeed? Got your funding but lost about what to do next? Pressure can often translate into getting things wrong. Here’s a great article from @Scobleizer on what [...]