Category Archives: News

Five founders who have raised over $16 million in funding in the last 12 months share their top tips for a successful pitch

27 November 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Startups

During the last 12 months Qinec, Makielab, Mojiva, Mindshapes and Click A Taxi have raised over $16 million in funding. We asked the five founders what advice they could offer to other startups on delivering the perfect pitch?

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Guest Blog; ‘Bill Earner, Managing Partner of Connect Ventures, provides his top tips for an effective pitch!’

21 November 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Startups

As part of my job I get to see a lot of startups pitch their businesses. So what makes the best ones truly stand out? In my experience the most effective pitches share a few traits in common. I’m going …

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Ten Smart CEOs: (No 3) Chris Morton, Lyst

25 September 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Press coverage

Chris Morton’s decision to colonise the fashion world as an innovator, whilst timely, represented a shift in career path for the former VC of Balderton Capital. Launched in 2010 this success, having secured funding from DFJ Esprit and Accel, is …

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‘Reports of the death of Magazines are exaggerated’ by Rupert Turnbull,Publisher of Wired Magazine.

10 September 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Events, Interviews, News

As Silicon Roundabout plays host to an increasing number of business models that aim to change our future behaviour including the consumption of news, Rupert Turnbull explains why the ‘Reports of the death of Magazines are exaggerated’. I often find …

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Guest Blog: ‘How to retain talent at your Silicon Roundabout startup!’ by Jon Sutcliffe

28 August 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Startups

Jon Sutcliffe, Partner at Kingston Smith, believes that keeping and incentivising key staff may not be as difficult as you think! Good staff, like good clients, usually have their pick of employers, so thinking of ways to recruit, retain and …

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As Silicon Roundabout startup Flubit prepare to relaunch, we catch up with CEO Bertie Stephens!

2 July 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Offers, Startups

Silicon Roundabout-based Flubit originally launched as a demand-driven group buying site in August 2011. From £50,000 in funding 14 months ago, the Flubit business plan has evolved quickly, and having recently secured $1.75m is set to relaunch this summer with …

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Our focus on Silicon Roundabout’s ‘hottest startups’ continues; today it’s Teamly!

29 June 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Press coverage, Startups

Amongst some of the gloomiest reports of European contagion the jubilee celebrations have not been the only ray of sunshine to offer balance and encouragement to us all! Last month Teamly and their founder Scott Allison announced that 500 Startups, …

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It’s Monday and we continue our focus on some of Silicon Roundabout’s ‘hottest startups’; today it’s Tribesports!

25 June 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Events, Interviews, News, Startups

It would be very easy to dismiss Tribesports as simply a social network for sportspeople! However the approach and desire adopted by three former executives from Mydeco, Steve Reid, David Hickson and Jenna Anians, as well as co-founder Andrew Mcdonough, …

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Over the next 10 days we catch up with some of Silicon Roundabout’s hottest startups; Today it’s MarketInvoice!

22 June 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Startups, Venture Capital

Over the next ten days we wanted to focus on some of Silicon Roundabout’s hottest startups; Today we catch up with Charles Delingpole, co founder of MarketInvoice! What do you do when Eurozone contagion dominates the press in the public …

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‘Marketing is dead’ said Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi. We asked two Silicon Roundabout entrepreneurs if they agreed!

31 May 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Press coverage

The headline in The Drum magazine (May 11th) read ‘MARKETING IS DEAD… or so said Kevin Roberts when addressing the Institute of Directors conference recently – shocking words considering he is chief executive officer at one of the world’s biggest …

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