If you’re a UK entrepreneur wondering how on earth you’ll ever get your startup funded, this blog is the place for you – click on the (totally free) [Sign me up!] button on the right and I’ll send you through site updates by email. Easy!
And to save you the bother of laboriously trawling through all the pages and categories for nuggets of startup gold, here’s a nice selection of links to recent posts you might find useful:-
- If you’re pitching any time soon, here are 11 big things you might well want to avoid. Make sure you know how to classify the angels you meet, and why angel investing is in trouble in the UK. Anyway, what’s your real job title? Chief Revolutionary Officer? Be careful your business plan doesn’t look like this, and know where you are on this 2×2 “lickspittle leech” grid.
… - Following the fashionable Lean Startup methodology might work for your product development, but could well prove a disaster for your startup funding. Here are 10 reasons why I think Lean Startups suck. Oh, and here’s a secret history of business bootstrapping you might find helpful.
… - What good reasons are there for launching your own UK startup in 2011? Not as many as you might think. Here’s my provocative “Dangerous Reasons” presentation for a guest lecture at UCL (November 2011). But if you do, never forget that “Cash Is More Important Than Your Mother“.
… - It turns out that I invented gamification without really realising it. Here’s a post on the prehistory of gamification, and another on what its future might look like, which I call “reverse gamification“.
… - The Technology Strategy Board gets discussed in a number of posts here. Interestingly, my semi-satirical video entry got past Round One of its Tech City Launchpad1 competition in Summer 2011, though the written submission stalled at Round Two, so didn’t get one of the 20 x £100K funding notes (bah!)
… - If you’re at all interested in manufacturing (don’t worry if you aren’t, relatively few people in the UK are), here’s a recent post on what I call “the mystery of manufacturing“. But even if you aren’t, here’s the startup manifesto I try to work to.
Cheers, ….Nick Pelling…. 😉
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Hi Nick, This is a great Blog and I have hit follow. However I am writing a book abut using jigsaws in the classroom and you are credited by Wikipedia as the person who coined the term gamification. I can gather together information of course – but I d not have your experience. Do you have a post, article, or book about that? Do you do guest Blogs? Jo (I am not in the UK but I do like the Guardian https://id.guardian.co.uk/profile/id/12056958?activity-stream=comments)