Every time we talk to Lizzie Hodcroft about The Sweet Beet, we can’t help but feel excited about the fun and inclusivity the condiments brand represents. Lizzie has been involved with Newcastle Startup Week from the start. She exhibited & pitched her products at the Natwest Entrepreneur Accelerator Hub on the final day of our … More Speaker Spotlight: Lizzy Hodcroft (The Sweet Beet)
Starting a business can be daunting. Where do you begin, when should you register with the HMRC, and how much market research should you conduct before developing your prototype? These are just one of many questions you may be asking yourself within a few weeks of starting up. While juggling all these challenges it can … More Ready to scale up your business? Come to Newcastle Scaleup Summit 2019!
Steven Bartlett is the 25-year-old CEO of Social Chain Group, Europe’s largest social media & digital publishing house consisting of two flagship companies – Social Chain and Media Chain. Social Chain Group is a multi-award-winning agency renowned for delivering groundbreaking social campaigns for some of the most exciting global brands including Apple, Amazon, Coca-Cola & … More Speaker Spotlight: Steven Bartlett (CEO, Social Chain Group)
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