StartVI is just about ready to take applications. We’ll be making this as simple and transparent as possible. Everyone will know the criteria and everyone will know very quickly whether they accepted or not. And if not, then why. So, what we are looking for are companies: – with a big idea (hot product) – [...]

When you take an investment in your company, generally you are selling shares for an agreed (and negotiated) price.  In general you take  £x for y shares, and by simple arithmetic you can see that you’ve sold the shares each for £x/y per share.  That deceptively simple calculation has some very interesting consequences, based on [...]

The Start\UP Brief: StartUps and Shares, covered those elements of shares that needed to be decided at registration. The implication of those decisions comes into play when you are looking for investment. If you never, ever, ever plan on seeking outside investment – from friends and family, angel investors or VC’s – you’re done. But just [...]

All limited companies are legal entities that are owned by people, who have a “share” in the company or take “stock” in it. When you form a company, and register it with Companies House, you have to state three important pieces of information: shares authorized, shares issued and share price. A great simplification, but a [...]

At last Wednesday night Start\UP bootcamp session, several items came up that clearly, for some, needed deeper coverage. We’ll post each of these, and any other topics that come up, under Start\UP briefs.

Stairway To Heaven or Highway To Hell? (Title inspired by @eful and that I just bought AC/DC’s “Iron Man 2”) Angel investing in technology startups can look from the outside like a casino game – either roulette, where there is no skill in the roll, and you have no means to influence the odds, or [...]

Start\UP (Belfast) Start \UP is a bootcamp aimed at early stage technology startup companies. The goal is simply to “get your business ready for operations”. In many, but not all cases, that means funding. In all cases it means “getting ready to do business”. And in reality there is very little distinction. An investor needs [...]

VI (pronounced ‘six’) is a Virtual Incubator for very early stage companies based in Northern Ireland which focuses heavily on mentoring and operational readiness. Our partners in this programme include successful entrepreneurs and business executives from international companies as well as local entrepreneurs who are at a slightly later stage than this programme. These individuals [...]

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