Monthly Archives: December 2008

World’s 9th richest country (Kuwait) and Web Innovation

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Innovation in web technology has been given priority over the last couple of years by the British Government. Recently at NESTA Lord Drayson mentioned how UK shouldn’t stop innovating even during the recession. It is fantastic to compare that with World’s 10th richest nation and its web strategy or rather a non-web strategy.
Kuwait [...]

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Lost in the moral maze: How my (modeling) startup quickly turned ‘offending’

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So I wanted to start an online community aimed at models (fashion). The website is called She Is Fit (URL SheIsF.it), I began developing the project 2/3 months back during evenings and weekends. It was aimed at helping women promote their modelling careers. I also thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to [...]

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VC fund advice ‘Bootstrapping’ business

The advice from all Venture Capitalists (VCs), organisations like NESTA and colleagues from other businesses is the same ‘Bootstrap your way till the end of recession’. The case is even more compelling when a successful VC firm showcases it’s portfolio with bootstrapped companies.

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So how does it work, Javier Rojas, managing director of Kennet [...]

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How does your typical UK Entrepreneur look ?

Interesting to read that there is a study to find a typical entrepreneur ! Read the entire article on Startups.co.uk ’s blog.

Statistic reveal that the majority of entrepreneurs are white males, in their forties, who live in the South East. The article shines light on some interesting statistics on small business owners:

Age Category: under 35 [...]

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