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Chemist Direct – thrills, pills, startups and VC funding
Beth Griffin takes a look at a startup that hopes to do for chemists what Glasses Direct has done for opticians – shake things up a bit and build a multi-million pound business.
The female internet superhero strikes back? Story of The Next Women
A big welcome to Beth Griffin who’ll be interviewing a wide range of startups and entrepreneurs for SmallBizPod over the coming months. Her first encounter is with a publishing entrepreneur she knows well: Simone Brummelhuis of The Next Women.
Wonga – the Web 2.0 startup that’s cashing in on risk
Wonga has a simple model to make money by lending to those in need of short term spondulix. But it’s the risk assessment algorithms behind the scenes that could be the real cash cow for this business.
Glum Glover and the rise of the micro business
Anne Glover of Amadeus Capital Partners fears real value destruction for fast growth startups, while the launch of another micro business tells a bootstrapping story for our times.
CityAmigo.com bets on the rise of the ‘new-nomads’
As two well-travelled, multi-lingual, internet geeks it seems inevitable that Yuri Bacas Hosaka and Gerald Speers should end up creating a website dedicated to the needs of what they have dubbed …
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