Tonight is the Batchbuddy Pre-Launch. Tasting some of the worlds most popular cocktails as well as learning about the Batchbuddy cocktail batching system. Great turnout – a lot of smiles (and rosy cheeks). Pre-orders are flying!
Somewhere out there, sitting in a café, is a developer who’s thinking “Why won’t a startup CEO take a chance on me?” There’s an entire programme that runs out of Catalyst designed to help CEOs meet CTOs. There are prospective CEOs looking for developers to help build their products, to realise their ideas. And it […]
RT if you believe we need new ways ALL entrepreneurs, regardless of their background, can access capital. Spread the word – Kauffman's Capital Access Lab aims to level the playing field. https://t.co/cjjA1pyoF7 — Kauffman Foundation (@KauffmanFDN) July 31, 2019 “83% of new businesses don’t access either venture capital or bank loans” This figure is a […]
RAISE MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS SESSIONS Objectives: The MANAGEMENT ESSENTIAL sessions comprise core material for RAISE program participants to manage their business. Pre-Requisites: Basic understanding of business planning and funding. Suitable for: Scale Up – Companies are looking to scale and are surrounded by people or resources that they need to manage. One off Price £2500 for […]
Early morning coding session with the Google Developer Group, sponsored by Teamwork and Raise. Today it’s a developer into to the Go programming language. Raise has its origins in the Digital Circle and we believe strongly that we can’t have a thriving startup community without a thriving developer community. We have a live Zoom room […]
You Say COGS … .. I say Cost of Service, Cost of Revenue, Cost of Product I going to have fun and really mess with you on this. But sit yourself down with some cocoa, pull up a blanket and let me tell you a story of the olden days. Back when almost all business […]
A car is made up of many moving parts; the wheels, the windscreen wipers, the steering wheel all connected to and powered by the engine. The engine of RAISE is made of a mix of experienced team members with a history of helping start-ups. By being in the engine room, sitting side by side with […]
We’re going to be very specific. We have loads of events coming up. We have loads of events planned but not public yet. But we also have a specific audience. Our events are not open to everyone. They’re not open to the rank and file, they’re not open to government employees, they not really open […]
Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf…. Pre-Revenue Startup? Of course, there’s more risk investing in early stage, pre-revenue companies, is that really a surprise to anyone? With greater risk comes greater reward – if you know how to manage it – and have the cojones for it but risk taking doesn’t come easily to […]
What is your motivation for success? The thing about “incentives” is that they have to actually incentivise. How you incentivise is first by measuring and then by rewarding. You don’t get performance by watching (measuring) and you definitely don’t get it by rewarding alone. Phase I of the Spring Cohort of the Raise programme is […]