Strategic Partners
Alternative Business Funding
Alternative Business Funding is part of Clifton Asset Management PLC and is dedicated to helping business of all sizes gain access to the right finance for their business. Alternative Business Funding, powered by Funder Finder, is approved as a dedicated referral platform by both HM Treasury and The British Business Bank.
Funder Finder provides a free and easy way for SMEs to find finance for their business.
The engine is simple, safe, efficient, free and fair, allowing the business owner to search for available finance without impacting their credit rating.
Funder Finder uses straightforward information to match SME users with an impressive selection of finance market leaders within minutes, offering access to the vast majority of business funding alternatives.
Funder Finder ensures the solution is both suitable and appropriate by putting the business owner at the heart of the process.
Creation IP
Creation IP is a fast growing, privately owned firm of Patent and Trademark Attorneys. With offices in Glasgow and London they advise clients across the UK and internationally, on how to protect and manage their Intellectual Property Assets.
As a relatively young business themselves, the team at Creation IP understand the challenges of starting and growing a business. Consequently, they are perfectly suited to provide new and young ventures with the right support and advice, both in developing a winning IP strategy and understanding the resourcing challenges this brings.
The team behind Creation IP have decades of experience in the IP arena and act for some of the largest global businesses, so no matter how small you are or how big you get, they can support your IP strategy and journey.
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Partners Team Development
Partners Team Development (PTD)
Building a good team around you is a big part of creating a successful business. No entrepreneur can scale, or fulfil their business potential, on their own and learning the skills that allows you to recruit the right people and build them into a team is something everyone needs to learn.
There is a process to team building, which PTD will teach you through its strategic partnership with Startup4ten®, providing you with the framework and knowhow that they have learned from over 40 years of team building.
Understanding team building and integrating this into your business strategy, will help you to avoid costly mistakes in both time and money. It will also help you to create the right environment for your people to perform in to grow the organisation. If you can harness the strengths of your people, by creating strong and motivated teams with the right culture, you put an engine into the business that will drive you forward.
Gate Creative Branding
There are many areas you need to get right to grow your business but building a brand, that drives customers to you and builds value in your business is vital.
Gate Creative understands the unique world of branding, including the emotional drivers that you need to create and apply, but also the science and process to developing a brand strategy, which is just as important.
Gate Creative is led by Ken Doig a seasoned entrepreneur and brand specialist who can help you to develop your brand strategy and how to deploy it to get results. If you can create a brand that gives you recognition within your target market it will become one of your biggest growth drivers.
This is not an overnight process, it takes time but you need to start with the right framework and strategy and this is also where Gate Creative can help, so that your business and brand strategy are aligned and evolve together.
If you are serious about growing your business, you need to be serious about building your brand.
Storm 7 Coaching
At Startup4ten® we only work with coaches who have the right business background. If we are going to help entrepreneurs and management teams overcome the many challenges they face, then business knowhow and experience matters. One of the aspects that distinguishes Startup4ten® from other Accelerators is that all the coaching team and our partners are entrepreneurs themselves, who have walked the path. They have accumulated the practical skills and knowhow to help the next generation become “business smart” faster.
Storm 7 Coaching is headed up by Nic Boyle and they have been selected to run the Startup4ten® Accelerator programme within the Lanarkshire and Central Scotland area. Nic has a huge amount of business, leadership and management experience that can help anyone wanting to start, grow, or scale their existing business.
In addition, Nic will take part in the Startup4ten® CPD programme helping individuals, SME, and corporate management teams to develop their strategic thinking alongside their entrepreneurial, business and management skills.
Mindblox Ltd
Mindblox have been selected as the Startup4ten® coaching partner in Aberdeen and the surrounding region, helping to bring our unique brand of support to the entrepreneurial community in this area.
Mindblox is headed up by entrepreneur and lead coach Tess Day who understands all the dynamics needed to create a successful and healthy business. She knows the importance of getting the basics right to be successful, but also the people element, the personal growth and development that goes with it.
In Startup4ten® we recognise that to start, grow and scale a business needs a blend of different skills, as well as a robust process to make it all work. Therefore, we created our Business Basics™ model and management technique, to provide a strong framework for businesses to build off. With Tess and Mindblox we have a proven strategic partner who can help businesses learn our process. This will develop their strategic thinking as well as their problem solving and management skills, to improve outcomes and bring about the success they deserve.
Startup4ten® only work with coaches who understand the business journey and have a proven entrepreneurial and business track record themselves. Success can be about small margins and having someone with the ability to help leaders see more of the picture can be critical. With Tess and Minblox we know that entrepreneurs will be in strong hands as they learn to develop their business, using our model and technique.
Catandra
For a business accelerator to properly support entrepreneurs and management teams, it needs coaches who really understand the business journey and have the experience and knowhow from putting it into practice themselves. Therefore, we have appointed Catandra as the Startup4ten® coaching partner in East Sussex, to help motivated and ambitious businesses in this region to achieve their objectives.
Catandra, is headed up by Founder and entrepreneur Andy Wheeler, who knows what it is like to start, run and build successful ventures. He also understands the need for a reliable process, that helps the entrepreneur and their management team to build that success. It is a blend of different skills helping businesses to move through the different stages of growth, manage risk and time, to become successful.
Andy’s engineering DNA is integral to him being a great business coach and it is one of the reasons we selected his firm to partner with Startup4ten. Running a successful venture is about constantly solving open ended problems and that is not something all coaches can help with. In Catandra and Andy Wheeler we have a coaching partner with the skill to help clients get the most from their opportunities to develop faster and with less risk of failure.