This is your chance to change the future. Remember when you first saw someone with an iphone? (or similiar smartphone!?) Remember how cool it was? How slick, how efficient, how the lucky owner could do several tasks seemingly simultaneously, text, email, take photos, use zappy apps all on one device and so quickly? Remember how [...]

  Suffolk Digital Startup Session Monday 27th Feb 2012 After a great Suffolk Startup Session on the subject of Bootstrapping your business with Adrian Melrose, Cathy Frost and Sue Ashurst several key messages have lingered in my mind… Top tips: Use Smarta.com – a great information resource for startups Establish a revenue stream as soon [...]

Job Opportunities for Local Mental Health Social Enterprise The Mind Sanctuary is a social enterprise committed to empowering people to become masters of their own emotional wellbeing and mental health, by providing inspirational and informative articles and connecting people to local therapists, therapeutic activities, counselors, charities and mental health services. Tina Gibbons is founder of [...]

Wow. Jellymania has hit Suffolk! ——> Take part in making the next one happen CLICK HERE This Monday saw the first Jelly in Suffolk happen all day at the Eastern Enterprise Hub. We had a great turnout, people arriving before we had opened the doors at 11m. They sat down, had coffee on the table, [...]

Topic OK, you have a great idea, the best the world has ever seen! But is there a business opportunity there and – most of all – how will you find your customers? The Masterclass will deal with the following aspects I have a great idea but can it be a business? How do I [...]

Yesterday evening we attended an interesting event at Endeavour House entitled The Creative Community Approx 20 people attended, 8 appeared to be county council employees.. there seemed to be no politicians or councillors. A disappointing turn out but an interesting debate nonetheless. Below are notes taken during the briefing and ensuing debate.. please feel free [...]

Unlocking innovation is central to the development of Suffolk’s economy, but starting and growing innovation-based businesses can be a minefield, with many failing unnecessarily at very early stages. To help such companies succeed and to develop a culture and environment that encourages and inspires more startups, the Ipswich Startup Masterclass programme has been created. Funded [...]

We have monthly tweetups in Bury St Edmunds organised by David Giffin (@dgiffin). This is a great way to have a relaxed drink or 2 whilst meeting new people that you may or may not recognize from their profile pictures. Its completely informal, no agenda, no serious networking just chat and booze. It’s a great [...]

Today I start school ..again. It’s been a while since I started school but this is a whole new ball game. I probably won’t be wearing a pinafore, plaits or a purple tie for starters! I have been chosen to take part in The School for Social Entrpreneurs (SSE).  The school was founded in 1997 [...]

There’s been quite a few questions bouncing around Twitter asking “what is a TweetUp? what do you do? etc” I thought I’d endeavour to give my own answers to this! I’m not sure who would have first coined the word “tweetup” but clearly it didn’t exist until Twitter did, after which there was a mushrooming [...]