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Founder Stories: Carl Thompson, stopping everything to find my next move

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The author of this article, Carl Thompson, is the current co-founder of Contento. Previously co-founder and CMO of TradeGecko, founder of Momentum Marketing and a few other companies in between. I’m a yes person. To my detriment and I’ve only recently realised saying yes to everything can actually be damaging to my goals. I got so […]

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Founder Chats: Zanda and Kyle From TinySkinScribbles

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We recently chatted with the founders of TinySkinScribbles, Zanda & Kyle, who have just gone through our latest CO.STARTERS cohort. Q. Tell us about TinySkinScribbles? TinySkinScribbles creates temporary tattoos from original hand-drawn designs that are unique and fun. Our mission is to provide people with a way to express themselves to the world or privately without […]

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Founder Chats: Cameron Stewart From Parametric Furniture

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We recently chatted with founder Cameron Stewart, founder of d-i-ply, a company offering stylish, affordable furniture kits for crafty people. Cameron completed one of our programmes to help launch his company. Q. Cameron, what does your company do? d-i-ply scours the internet for the best and most innovative parametric furniture designs, then makes them in […]

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Nelson Shaw, Co-Founder of WheyCartel, On Building A Global E-commerce Business

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  We caught up with Nelson Shaw, Co-founder of WheyCartel, to pick his brains on e-commerce, useful startup hacks and building a global company from New Zealand. Nelson and his co-founder Rab Heath initially partnered to found the AgTech company Haptly. However, after identifying opportunities in the fitness industry, they made a pretty significant shift […]

Entrepreneurs Unleashed: An Event Series For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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Our Entrepreneurs Unleashed event series has has now bought together over 150 aspiring entrepreneurs in 2016, and we’re looking forward to bringing together many more in 2017. Entrepreneurs Unleashed is a bi-monthly event for people to learn real, practical advice for starting a business from those who have done it before. We invite founders who are […]