Many people have dreams and aspirations. However so often these dreams aren’t realised. Your ideas fall at the first hurdle – money. Today I will showcase Go Fund Me – a fine example of crowdfunding, that has proved a great supporter of creativity, enabling people’s wildest dreams to come true… Crowdfunding To start, i’d like to begin with a brief look at the fundamental concepts of crowdfunding  and its parent – crowdsourcing, of which you may [...]

Today we are living in a world with more technological advantages than any other generation behind us. We have more resources available to us than ever before and we’re literally connected to just about everyone on the planet through one or a cocktail of multiple online portals..   It’s an amazing time to create opportunity for yourself, but sadly there’s almost TOO much information available to us to be able to pick the right one [...]

Whether you’re primarily a web designer, developer, or internet entrepreneur, chances are you have a certain level of geek inside of you that makes you want the latest gadgets and toys. I’ve scoured the internet in search of must-have tech and gadgets that would be useful to anyone running a home office or business.   Iron Key Summary Iron Key is a truly secure way to store sensitive files. This product will “self-destruct” after a [...]

So you’ve decided to start a business but you don’t have much money and you don’t know where to get money. If you’re young and have no credit history, getting a small business loan from a bank will be nearly impossible. So what are your options?   You can ask friends and family to invest in you, but that’s risky. Before you do that, ask yourself these questions: What if the business doesn’t work out? [...]

In the current economic climate, many people are trying to find ways to make more of their savings. Unfortunately, this is not as easy to do as it might have been in the past. Banks are no longer offering high interest rates, and even rates on ISAs have got down to the point where you’d be lucky to find one that was at 2% for an instant access account. For this reason,people have started thinking [...]

  If I’ve learned anything in my few years as a young guy in business, as an entrepreneur carving my path, it’s that you really can’t do it alone. In fact to be really successful in this game you have to create ways in which you can leverage the existing credibility of others, so that it can pull you up too. That might read funny.. What I’m definitely not saying here is “use people” to [...]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time on Fiverr over the past year, the sellers are so passionate and will really go out of their way to provide the best possible service for you.  I would say the quality of some of the gigs is often just as good as where you might pay ten times more elsewhere on the internet. Fiverr really does help anyone get the materials they need to make their online [...]

Some businesses need more initial funding than others to get them off the ground, often requiring more than one funding solution. It is not uncommon for businesses to go through several rounds of investment throughout the course of their existence. Let’s say your initial funding comes from an angel investor which really gives your businesses start-up the kick in the right direction it needs. Further down the line, as your business grows, it’s likely you [...]

So I heard about O2ThinkBig a while back and I decided that it deserves a mention for those that have not heard of it. I caught up with Cheryl Flack volunteer co-ordinator for the O2 ThinkBig programme to ask her a about what Think Big is and how you can get involved.       Oliver: Please can you tell me a bit about the aims of O2ThinkBig and what it does? Cheryl: O2Think Big is [...]

  Today I thought we’d take a look and consider the 5 main things investors are looking for in young entrepreneurs. I’m more looking at it from a social point of view. Its pretty clear that investors will also like to see that the entrepreneur has a clear vision for his or her project, good financial planning abilities and some degree of customer awareness. But lets look at it from an idea and social perspective! [...]

With the recent announcement of David Cameron’s extension to the start-up loans for young people which saw the age cap rise from 24 to 30 as well as boosting the fund by another £30m to £110m over 3 years,  starting your own business is a good option. That’s what I did. I started my own enterprise, Young Web Builder to give young people a leg up online. With nearly one million under-25s struggling to get [...]

A lot of people often ask “what is the best way to invest £1000 online, or £10,000, well anyway to keep things simple I am going to stick with £100, as far as I am aware I do not know of any articles that really tell you how to invest £100 online or give ideas as to where to invest £100 online.  It is enough that you can do something maybe not a lot but [...]

This method of investing £100 online is safe if taken with care and should only be used by people 18+ matched betting is quite common online and is well recommended on the very popular money advice website www.moneysavingexpert.com. As a graduate I know that every penny counts, especially for students. In fact, if you have a penny, you’re probably richer than most. If you’re one of the lucky ones who has £100 left over from [...]

Here are some great quotes from the last generation of entrepreneurs (plus some even older ones and some random ones thrown in!), these quotes prove that the basic concepts of success have never changed, will you be part of the next generation? These quotes are in no particular order…   Winston Churchill  “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”   Anonymous “Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision [...]

Recently we have heard that Facebook’s profits have fallen, Google, Apple and Microsoft report similar results, this produces a hole in the online market which YOU can fill, do you want to create the next generation of social networks? The web is changing fast, can you supply their needs? It’s great to dream about being the best, but that dream will never come true unless you realise it and get active, producing your dream. Will [...]

People pay £1000s for graphics and logos, do you want to save your business money? Use a micro-job site!   What is a micro-job site? A mico-job site is a website where users can post their offers of work (“gigs”) on the site. In a way they are like big freelancing directories, but much cheaper! For example on Fiverr.com every micro job offer is sold for $5 (about £3), with a massive range of job [...]

John Maynard Keynes I was asked some time ago what I thought the difference was between projects like Young Web Builder and other enterprise based projects. It made sit back and think really hard about what we are attempting to do here. Young Web Builder and projects like Technician In a Box, Majesty Security and others are based on principles of keynesian economics. 1. Imagination and Optimism. 2. High animal spirits 3. Identifying new markets, new [...]

So you’ve built this site that you really love and you want to get the word out, you want to get more users to your site, you’ve got a low budget so it’s a bit of a challenge. How can you get cheap effective ways to advertise your site? Lucky for you, this is the right place to come, good decision. Keep reading on.. Step 1.  Utilize social media – Social media is pretty much [...]

SeoClerks Review:   In this review, I will be going over: 1. General Overview 2. Features 3. Pros and Cons 4. Why it is better than competition Part 1: General Overview: SEOClerks is a website that offers SEO services, hence the name, by its users. The amount of items that you can find there is amazing. They have many categories which range from Blackhat services and Web hosting to Article translating and Sponsored tweeting. Forum [...]

Reading about success stories in the field you one day hope to build your web business in is an excellent idea, you can see their mistakes as well as their triumphs, and therefore will have foresight that they did not have. Here is a success story about Google and their rise to power from a small business in a friend’s garage to the company it is today. Some amazing statistics about the king of the web… [...]