Creating a sales focus startup mindset

Since Sales Velocity partnered with us, I have been discussing with Ian Walton on how to introduce structured sales processes and methodologies into B2B sales. A number of Techcelerate Member Tech Companies focus 100% on B2B sales. Some have a B2C offering with the ability to introduce B2B offers based on insights derived from B2C […]

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Supporting Empact Ventures in Manchester

I recently took part in Super Connect Manchester event organised by Kosta Mavroulakis and the team at Empact Ventures.  If I recall, I first met Kosta at Johnny Cadden’s Business Rocks event in Manchester where he organised an investor pitching event. It was nice of Kosta to remember me and invite me to be part […]

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Restructuring communication channels

My attempt to have a functioning Slack channel has not worked miracles as I hoped. It seems a lot of companies are fed up with Slack even though in some cases, they use it for internal communications.   What seems to be working right now is WhatsApp. Our plan to have a large number of […]

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$5k AWS Credits for Techcelerate Member Companies

After some lengthy dialogue, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has finally given Techcelerate the ability to grant AWS Credits. This means Techcelerate is an AWS Activate Provider (official terminology).     My personal journey with AWS started in 2007 when we used S3 and SQS for building edocr.com. Then I had the privilege to host their […]

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Techcelerate’s offer to Founding Teams of Tech Companies?

Since we restarted last year, Techcelerate continues to evolve and refine our value proposition. Everything we do is done with the sole aim of helping Tech Companies succeed. Everything else is secondary. Additionally, we want to help others in our ecosystem from Partners to Investors achieve their own growth objectives.     We are currently […]

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Launch of Techcelerate Coffees Liverpool and the walk about

Since I moved back to Sci-Tech Daresbury, both Paul Treloar and John Leake have been instrumental in getting me to think about Liverpool’s tech ecosystem. As a result, I hosted our first Techcelerate Coffees Liverpool at Leaf at Bold Street, which was attended by 22 folks with 3 no show. This was our 25th Techcelerate […]

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Heard and Tontio get to rethink but all good

On 13th June, Heard Network and Techcelerate Member Tontio delivered investor pitches for peer review at Techcelerate Coffees Manchester #TCMCR held at Crowe.   Paul Austin (Heard Network) and David Smith (Tontio)       Tontio:  Founder and CEO: David Smith Making repair simple by providing the information, parts and tools required to carry out […]

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Building Value and Enjoying the Tech Entrepreneur Journey

Techcelerate is supporting a workshop organised by August Equity, Sunfish Advisory and Invictus Strategy Associates from London on 9th July 2019 in Manchester. The event will focus on how to build a more valuable technology business, bring in the right investors, develop your organic growth capabilities, undertake M&A and achieve a successful exit in the […]

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AccelerateMe rocked Manchester last night

Students of University of Manchester rocked Manchester last night at Manchester Science Park’s Bright Building when they presented 14 startups that have gone through  AccelerateME, the accelerator programme for student startups in Manchester. The calibre was high and some of their progress is outstanding.   AccelerateMe has been running the accelerator programme for 5 years […]

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Getting not just one but two workshops out

On 30th May 2019, we ran two workshops back to back focusing on Idea to Product Launch and Startup Financials. The first workshop on Idea to Product Success (much better title than Product Launch) was run by Manoj Ranaweera with assistance from Alexandra Morris, and attended by the Founders of Holm Care, Tontio, Flight Patrol, […]

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