One of the reasons we created our Newcastle Startup Week festival was to show the world what a great place the North East of England is to start or grow a business by bringing together all the best help, advice and support in one place. This story of how Minnesota-based Cindy Moy Carr found the … More Startup Spotlight: mySysters
When we met Eric Guo (Founder & Managing Director, StreetAway) at Newcastle Startup Week 2018, we immediately loved what he was doing to support small and independent local businesses by sending more consumers their way but were even more impressed once we got to know him better. Here’s why… 1. Hi Eric, can you please … More Startup Spotlight: StreetAway
In April we met Emmanuel Enwenede, Founder & CTO of an innovative new events management platform called EventsCubes and invited him to pitch onstage at Newcastle Startup Week 2018 after being impressed with his passion and enthusiasm for helping others. Since then, he’s decided to re-develop and re-launch the platform as ‘Oowambe’ with new co-founder … More Startup Spotlight: Oowambe
Something the North East of England is very good at is creating businesses and organisations with a strong social purpose and one of our favourite ‘Tech For Good’ startups is Newcastle-based Fammily which helps single and separated parents easily manage and share money, child expenses, child maintenance payments and communications from one place. Following his … More Startup Spotlight: Fammily
One of the most exciting businesses we’ve come across in recent years is EdTech platform globalbridge and following his appearance at Newcastle Startup Week 2018, we caught up with Ben Mason (Founder & CEO) to ask about their origin and his plans for the future. 1. Hi Ben, can you please give me a brief overview … More Startup Spotlight: globalbridge
Following their AWESOME talk for us on Day 4 (‘Growing & Scaling’) of Newcastle Startup Week 2018, we’re excited to have ‘Andrew and Pete’ running a FREE webinar on Content Marketing for us on Thursday (23rd August) @ 2pm! If you heard them speak, you’ll know just how knowledgeable and fun these guys are but if … More FREE Content Marketing ‘Decoded’ webinar from Andrew & Pete (23rd August 2018)
This is a guest blog by Holly Thompson (Founder & Director, Future Skills Vision) who is one of our sponsors & speakers on Day 1 (‘Inspiration’) of Newcastle Startup Week 2018. Following our first successful 18 months in business I look back at the highs, the lows and some of the challenges we have faced … More Embracing Mistakes from Day 1
On Day 4 (‘Growing & Scaling’) of Newcastle Startup Week 2018, we’re excited to have David Anderson (Business Strategy Coach, Auxin Services) giving an introductory talk on the OKR (Objective and Key Results) methodology. What is it? OKR is a framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes at a company, team and personal … More Learn how to work like Google, LinkedIn & Twitter at Newcastle Startup Week
At Newcastle Startup Week 2017, New York-based author, artist and storyteller Amber Rae gave a truly inspiring talk on how to ‘Choose Wonder Over Worry’ and overcome the voices of self-doubt that hold you back from fulfilling your potential. (You can watch the Facebook Live video here). Soon after, Amber fulfilled her own lifelong dream … More ‘Choose Wonder Over Worry’ with Amber Rae
When you’re starting out in business you may want to keep your costs down to a bare minimum but sooner or later you’ll need proper legal advice to protect both yourself and your customers/clients. We asked Jill Dovey from Newcastle-based Muckle LLP to share her thoughts on when to bring in the professionals. Hi Jill, … More Q&A with Jill Dovey (Tech Specialist Lawyer, Muckle LLP)