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Start Me Up! A profile of KashFlow

KashFlow is a web based accounting system, which has been developed for small businesses.

I've been asking Founder and CEO Duane Jackson to explain KashFlow's business model and its future plans.

by Graham Charlton 04 February 2013 13:26pm 4 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of Convertable

Convertable is a web app which aims to improve the quality of information captured on contact forms for lead generation.

It grabs additional data, including keyword, geo-location, pages viewed, and visitor history for each individual contact.

I've been asking Chris Hull and Patrick Smith how the app works, and the company's plans for the future...

by Graham Charlton 23 January 2013 12:22pm 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of adeven

Based in Berlin, adeven is a mobile analytics and ad verification company, which aims to enable advertisers and agencies to understand and optimise effective mobile campaigns in real time.

We asked the three founders, Christian Henschel, Paul H. Müller and Manuel Kniep to explain the business model and the company's future plans.

by Graham Charlton 11 January 2013 09:29am 0 comments

Russia open its doors to homespun and foreign entrepreneurs

Behind Lenin's Tomb in Moscow there is a small door embedded in the Kremlin Wall where Soviet rulers used to duck through on their way to presiding over the annual May Day Parade.

The door is small and, according to a Russian soldier I met there a decade ago, it was deliberately so because of Stalin's diminutive stature.

After all, if he was about to acknowledge the size of his huge army, the last thing he needed was to be reminded of was his lack of height.

Rather like Stalin's door, the, er, window of opportunity for Russian entrepreneurs has been similarly narrow. Inventors and creators were employed by the State and any resulting IP or patents would be owned by the State.

by Monty Munford 03 January 2013 10:38am 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of Owned it

Owned it is a new social commerce platform that aims to help online retailers increase conversions through social referrals.

We've been asking the team behind Owned it about the platform, its business model, and their plans for world domination...

by Graham Charlton 21 December 2012 10:45am 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of Tamome

While the affiliate model has worked very well online, there is a need for a solution which helps publishers to make the most of mobile.

This is what Tamome has been launched to achieve. I've been asking CEO and founder Christian Louca about the company, and its plans for the future...

by Graham Charlton 27 November 2012 16:40pm 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of Job Bounties

Job Bounties is founded by recruitment entrepreneur, James Uffindell, who believes the UK recruitment industry is far too expensive, with the cost per hire in the UK double that in the US.

To counter this, he recently launched Job Bounties, which takes the principles of social recruitment databases like LinkedIn and adds a new type of social P2P business model that isn’t advertising revenue based or controlled by recruitment agencies.

I've been asking James about the thinking behind Job Bounties, and its plans for the future.

by Graham Charlton 19 November 2012 12:52pm 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of wishgenie

Wishgenie is a social platform which allows its users to club together to buy gifts for their friends.

I've been asking CEO David Berney about the business model and the company's plans...

by Graham Charlton 01 November 2012 09:18am 0 comments

Start Me Up! A profile of IdeaPlane

IdeaPlane is a startup that brings enterprise social networking to companies in regulated industries, such as finance, that might otherwise have been reticent about embracing social technologies.

I caught up with CEO and founder James Fabricant, himself a former executive at MySpace, to find out more about his vision for the company and the future of the industry.

by Graham Charlton 17 October 2012 14:32pm 1 comment

How to fail the right way: seven tips

The fact that more and more companies are coming to accept and embrace the f-word -- failure -- is arguably a good thing. After all, for many organizations, fear of failure has been an impediment to progress and innovation.

But the fact that an epic fail here and there can lead to success shouldn't delude business owners and executives into believing that all failure is created equal. To get the most out of fail, a company must fail properly.

by Patricio Robles 10 October 2012 15:10pm 8 comments