Grant funding update March 2020 by Tatton Consulting

This grant funding update is brought to you by Techcelerate Partner, Tatton Consulting who has secured over £40 million in grant funding over the last 5 years. Recent successes include: £4,000,000 for an InnovateUK national food traceability project. £15,100,000 for Clean energy project in Africa from the Energy Catalyst scheme. £1,150,000 SBRI grant for the big […]

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Is Techcelerate only for the first time founders?

Today, I received an email from a prospective Member (Tech Company) who said our alignment with their business is not quite there. “I think it’s a great resource, especially for early stage, scaleable businesses and first time founders.”    I’m not one to accept defeat. So let’s take a look at some of our tech […]

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Techcelerate is building its marketing competency starting with Airbase

With Airbase partnering with Techcelerate, we can finally start to build our marketing competency. Here’s Phil Slorick, CEO of Airbase introducing the company and how he plans to help Techcelerate companies accelerate growth.   What does your company offer? Let me tell you about Simon. Simon runs a startup with big ambitions. He knew the […]

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Alexandra Morris crowned as Entrepreneur of the Year

A massive congratulations to Alexandra Morris, CEO of MakeUrMove, a Techcelerate Company who won Entrepreneur of the Year award at last night’s Prolific North Tech Awards held in Manchester. Alex has worked tirelessly over the years for MakeUrMove and deserved this amazing recognition. Alex is not just a super-efficient CEO of a tech company. She […]

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Running Highly Productive Tech Events

I don’t expect you to be a nutter like me, but this is what works for me in Manchester, and this simple strategy in whole or in part might just work for you as well. So brace yourself, as there’s a lot of work at the micro-level. So let’s pick up the Techcelerate Coffees Manchester […]

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Techcelerate’s 10 most engaging Linkedin posts

I’m a sucker for stats, so here goes:   I know these were posted by me instead of Techcelerate. Some point in the future, I may have to change this, i.e. post using Techcelerate brand than just me.   References: Gaining 10,000 views on 4 days – steps I took. Mini #SocMed Strategy for #Linkedin

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Building edocr.com into Techcelerate’s workflow

I founded edocr.com in 2007 with few friends and reached an Exit in 2015 to Accusoft, Inc. Jack Berlin, CEO of Accusoft recently asked me three questions, and I thought of sharing them here.   Why did I found edocr.com and what were my hopes for it? I founded edocr.com in 2007 to allow businesses of all […]

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Techcelerate Financial Support

All tech companies start with an idea. As the idea starts to formulate and founders, co-founders and early team members start to come together, a company is formed and registered to provide a legal framework. As soon as the company is incorporated, you now have a legal obligation to prepare and file annual accounts and […]

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Fundraising in Silicon Valley and San Francisco in 2020

I’m reposting a set of tweets by Elizabeth Yin, Co-founder and General Partner of hustlefundvc, a native of San Francisco. Hustle Fund invests in hilariously (their own words and not mine) early startups. I don’t know Elizabeth, but I love her analysis so much hence sharing it here.   I must confess, I had to […]

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Bootstrapping tech startups

If you know what you are doing, at the very basic level, you only have 3 tasks: Develop the initial product (Build MVP) Secure users and/or customers (Customer Development) Cover costs – do you have money to live and pay bills, both personal and business   There is also the 4th one, Admin and making […]

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