UPDATE >> The presentations from the meeting are now available on the Yorkshire Forward website in PDF format. Click here and the relevant section is about half way down the page. On Thursday afternoon, we headed over to the Yorkshire Forward Digital Britain Launch event, held at The Met Hotel in Leeds. There was an [...]
As a bit of homework for participating in the forthcoming Hull Digital Open Coffee Meet Up event (I hope you’re going to be there!), and to show my support for local tech events, I decided to head over to Leeds and see for myself how the established ignite formula would work in Yorkshire, at the [...]
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I’m passionate about Hull and its future. I was born here, educated here, returned after University, and have been running businesses in the city for the last eleven years or so. Hull’s been in a tough economic situation for many years now. The reasons behind this and the associated social impact are complex. What’s clear [...]
I’m loving Kickstarter, and yet, have only really been aware of it since last year. It’s been a around a little longer - Kickstarter was founded in April 2009 by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler and is probably the best example of crowd sourced funding on the web. What is Kickstarter? Kickstarter is a [...]
KC has launched an investment fund of £300,000 to provide start-up and growth financing for businesses in the digital and technology sectors in Hull and East Yorkshire and we were invited to the launch last Friday at the Hallmark Hotel in North Ferriby.