Startups.co.uk is a UK business advice website, estimated at having 4.8 million readers. It was launched in 2000 by David Lester, who formerly founded the video game development company

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(responsible for the game

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) before selling it to

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History

Startups.co.uk was founded in 2000 to provide advice for nascent entrepreneurs wanting to start a business and to help aspiring entrepreneurs to 'avoid the mistakes he made'. In 2017,

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recorded that the small business website had been bought for nearly £1m by MVF, a customer generation and online acquisition specialist that in 2013 had topped the Sunday Times Tech Track.

Campaigns

As an online business resource, the company has been noted for publishing an annual report of ‘best business’ ideas since at least 2014.

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featured its editorial director speaking on start-up trends in a roundtable in 2019. Startups.co.uk also (since 2008) publishes an annual list called Startups 100 ranking the UK's 'hottest startups', taking into account factors such as growth potential as well as product ingenuity.

Recognition

In 2017, Startups.co.uk won a bronze award for its ‘Startups pop-up shop’ at the British Media Awards, powered by

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External links

Official Website
Internet properties established in 2000 Entrepreneurship organizations