If you checked in at our Day 4 scaleup summit, you may have attended the welcome talk from Matt Bratton, Senior Investment Manager at Invest Newcastle. We had a chat with Matt to learn more about the organisation and growth opportunities within the region. 1. Hi Matt. Can you tell us a little more about … More Sponsor Spotlight: Invest Newcastle
Day 4 of Newcastle Startup Week is focused on helping companies grow and scale. Entrepreneur Bean Benson, Founder of Visualsoft, will be joining us on stage to share his scale up journey and plans to grow. Together with his co-founders, Dean grew his digital marketing and eCommerce business into an award-winning organisations with multi-million revenue … More Sponsor Spotlight: Visualsoft
Although we are super excited for the start of our Newcastle Startup Week, we also can’t wait for the booming afterparty on Thursday which is bound to provide plenty of networking opportunities and a healthy dose of partying. The final afterparty, which will take place on Thursday 16 May at the Stack at 7pm, is … More Sponsor Spotlight: BMC Recruitment Group
Water companies have a huge role to play in improving our environment and addressing the big environmental and social issues. North East water provider Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), who kindly sponsor our ‘Day 2′ afterparty, proactively pursue these challenges through innovation, inviting startups and SMEs to join the debate and boost the economy. We sat … More Sponsor Spotlight: Northumbrian Water
We need to spread an entrepreneurial epidemic! The NELEP helps drives business growth through encouraging startup and scaleup support in the North East. In this Sponsor Spotlight, Colin Bell, Business Growth Director at the NELEP, discusses his suggestions for spreading an entrepreneurial epidemic in the region to encourage business growth. Colin will also be speaking … More Sponsor Spotlight: NELEP
‘Only 5% of B&B sales teams consider social media a successful lead generation tool’. In an age where sales calls have a bad reputation, what can entrepreneurs do to successfully generate leads? This is exactly what our Sponsor, MostSensational, specialises in. We had a chat with MostSensational’s Founder Karen Weech, who will be speaking on … More Sponsor Spotlight: MostSensational
Strategy, End-To-End Recruitment, Assessment Centres & Outplacement. These are the four key services our ‘Day 1’ Afterparty sponsor SEAO Talent Partners can provide. Recruitment is crucial for entrepreneurs as first hires play key roles in driving the business forward and boosting growth. Wrong hires can cost companies time and money, which not all entrepreneurs can … More Sponsor Spotlight: SEAO Talent Partners
Starting a business can feel very lonely. Working within entrepreneurial communities with like-minded individuals can help improve well-being and productivity. That’s why we are proud to be sponsored by ‘Eagle Labs’, a UK co-working initiative from Barclays. Barclays’ Eagle Labs initiative was set up to support the UK’s entrepreneurial community and drive digital skills development. … More Sponsor Spotlight: Barclays Eagle Labs
One of the key principles of business growth is understanding your product-market fit. This can be driven by key brand messages, customers and competitors. To obtain this data, you need to dig. And you need to dig deep. This is exactly what our Newcastle Startup Week sponsor NGI Solutions specialises in. NGI Solutions is a research, … More Sponsor Spotlight: NGI Solutions
We love the North East! In particular, we love the start-up ecosystem which consists of passionate people and organisations who are working hard every day to support existing or aspiring entrepreneurs with big ideas. One of these hardworking organisations is Sunderland Software City, who provide fully funded start-up support to technology businesses across the region. Sunderland Software City have been there with us from the start and we are excited to announce that they are now officially a Premium Sponsor of Newcastle Startup Week 2019! … More Sponsor Spotlight: Sunderland Software City