Launchpad is London Met’s flagship business start-up programme. Delivered part-time over 10 weeks, it gives passionate students and graduates the knowledge, tools and support needed to test their idea and take it to the next level. And we’ve just begun with this summer’s cohort! For [...]
On Tuesday, Accelerator hosted ‘From Idea to App Store’ – a speaker event as part of Digital Shoreditch Open House 2015. We had the chance to hear from a panel of industry experts – Toby Beresford (Founder and CEO of [...]
“Just like search was a decade ago and social was five years ago, content marketing is the next digital media revolution.” Yesterday, Nick Watt from Digital Doughnut gave a workshop at Accelerator on Digital Storytelling – all about using content [...]
The first part of our Creative Freelance Bootcamp was on Friday! This was a great introduction to freelancing, given by Accelerator’s Creative Enterprise manager, Emma Thatcher. We had a very diverse group of attendees, including translators, PR freelancers, designers and [...]
On Thursday Accelerator hosted a Digital PR workshop led by David Alexander, Managing Director of Calacus – with consultant Becky Williams. The workshop provided lots of useful tips for developing and improving PR strategy. PR is important to consider when starting up a [...]
Here’s a great resource for anyone with a start-up – the Guardian Small Business Network is an online community where you can gain access to regular newsletters, blogs, live Q&A sessions and advice from the experts! For example: in March, [...]
Good news for the creative and tech startups here at Accelerator! Nesta has released a report – The Geography of the UK’s Creative and High-Tech Economies – showing fast growth in the UK’s creative, high-tech and STEM industries. The report [...]
Last weekend, Gina Vasile - one of our Hatchery participants- entered a Hackathon, the last of 4 Hackathons as part of the Salesforce Summer of Hacks. The 2-days challenge was organised by Salesforce and BeMyApp and gathered over 80 Londoners. Hackers were classified as "ideas generators", "developers" and [...]
Tell us about yourself and your new business? I am Giovanni Dobbiani, a 23 years old Italian. Recently I joined 'Dream Leagues', a new organisation whose mission is to bring the best small-sided football experience and tournaments to London, in [...]
Yesterday (Monday), as many of you know was an extraordinary day in London as Tour de France stormed into the city with the whole Accelerator office watching the spectacle go past. Here is an video amazing video recorded by our [...]
