The week in brief February 2, 2014 Jamie Oliver launches ad production business Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is launching a production house that will specialise in the creation of commercials, Campaign reported last week. The business, Fat Lemon Productions, will be led by executive producer Jane Bolton, formerly at Picasso Pictures and Nexus Network, and producer Cabell Hopkins, previously a producer M&C [...]
Getting to the heart of online dating February 2, 2014 Annabel Palmer talks matchmaking with Lovestruck founders Brett Harding and Laurence Holloway ONLINE dating has come a long way since kiss.com and match.com – widely believed to be the first major dating websites – were registered in 1994 and 1995 respectively. Today, it is one of the most popular ways to meet a new partner, [...]
Innovation Diary: Three ways in which Britain’s entrepreneurial revolution is continuing to unfold February 2, 2014 BY PLEDGING to cut red tape, open up more government contracts to small companies, and use state R&D budgets to encourage innovation, politicians of all stripes spent last week promoting the entrepreneurial economy. But are they keeping pace? With creative destruction and technological change intensifying, it would be easy to forgive any of us for [...]
Gimme 5 February 2, 2014 …INCUBATOR SPACES YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF The Bakery The first Tech City ad-tech hub is a work space and “second stage” accelerator. It has over 3,000 sq ft of space for events, workshops and seminars. www.thebakerylondon.com Bathtub2Boardroom Charity that offers training and creates shared workspaces for early-stage entrepreneurs and freelancers in empty commercial [...]
How to grow a business from a bean January 26, 2014 Annabel Palmer talks student life and staple diets with James Eder, founder of marketing firm The Beans Group IN THE age-old debate over whether entrepreneurship is innate or can be taught, James Eder – founder of The Beans Group – makes a strong case for the former. At 13, he and his brother Michael created [...]
Innovation Diary: Perfect storm of factors is set to make education technology the UK’s next growth sector January 26, 2014 FOR THOSE seeking a model of the classroom of the future, Estonia is often high up the list. Speaking at Davos last week, Barclays’s Antony Jenkins contrasted the Baltic state’s “technologically-oriented” economy, where every child is taught coding at school, with the UK’s structural youth unemployment. Estonia’s tech transformation is indeed impressive. It has some [...]
Gimme 5 January 26, 2014 …STARTUPS CROWDFUNDING THIS MONTH Films of London Target: £125,000 for 25 per cent equity Film production and development company specialising in low to medium budget feature films. Raised: £61,200 via Seedrs 18 days left Lawbit Target: £120,000 for 6.48 per cent equity Online legal service providing plain English contracts for small companies. Raised: £64,040 via [...]
Partnerships may be the big trend in 2014 January 26, 2014 Annabel Palmer talks to MediaCom’s Karen Blackett WHEN Karen Blackett, UK chief executive of MediaCom, got her first big break in 1993, it was over a year before Wired magazine launched the first ever ad on the World Wide Web. She talks to City A.M. about her career, adapting to a rapidly-changing industry, and the [...]
The week in brief January 26, 2014 Telefonica plans £200m media planning pitch The Spanish telecoms company is preparing to launch a media planning and buying review across its European business, according to Campaign. The review, thought to be statutory, is expected to start in April and will be run from Madrid. It includes Telefonica’s £50m account for O2, whose UK media [...]
Springbok spicing up the wine market January 19, 2014 Annabel Palmer talks to Rowan Gormley, the South African taking on wine’s giants with venture Naked Wines THE DAYS of the wine snob – so brilliantly caricatured by Richard E Grant’s the Hon Simon Marchmont in the BBC’s Posh Nosh – could be coming to an end. It’s an industry long characterised by an assumption [...]
