the website for anapoly limited
“Today, hardly anyone questions whether to build a mobile-optimized website. A decade from now, we might be saying the same thing about optimizing digital experiences for voice or chat commands. The convenience of a customer experience will be a critical key differentiator. As a result, no one will think twice about optimizing their websites for multiple interaction patterns, including conversational interfaces like voice and chat.”
Dries Buytaert expands on this proposition here.
…. is open adoption software. Article in TechCrunch by Jake Flomenberg.
Developers in Plymouth pay a Community Infrastructure Levy which is held in the City Change Fund. The criteria for that fund require the money to be used for “the provision, improvement, replacement, operation, or maintenance of infrastructure or anything else that is concerned with addressing the demands that development places on an area (Regulation 59C of the CIL regulations 2013).”
The City Council committed £60,000 of the City Change Fund to the Crowdfund Plymouth campaign. That money can be pledged on projects that “help improve the city and make it a better place to live, work and play“. Suitable projects are eligible for matched funding from Plymouth Council of up to 50 per cent of the project cost, up to a maximum of £5,000.
A networking and career development service for alumni and students of the University of Warwick.
Cornwall Innovation comprises three business acceleration facilities: Pool Innovation Centre, Tremough Innovation Centre at Penryn and the Health & Wellbeing Innovation Centre at Treliske in Truro.
Gharajedaghi, J. (2011). Systems thinking: managing chaos and complexity : a platform for designing business architecture (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann.
The Gene: an intimate history by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
The Silk Roads: a new history of the world by Peter Frankopan. See also an interesting podcast of discussion between Peter Frankopan and Kwasi Kwarteng about the issues raised in the book, organised by Intelligence2,
Website: http://www.formationzone.co.uk/
0800 052 5600 | Facebook | Twitter
Location: 2nd floor of Marine Building in Plymouth University. Half of this floor is used by startups, the other half by members of the university’s Innovation Services team.
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Resources for Parents
Pre-startup package: duration 2 months; £60 fixed fee for use of one desk; appropriate support services.
Startup package: duration up to 2 years; £160 fee per desk; full range of support services.
There are monthly drop-in sessions from November to April.
Formation Zone Business Challenge. An annual competition to develop an innovative business idea. There are six categories:social enterprise, creative, digital and technology, marine, health and environment. Open to students currently at the university or its associated colleges and to recent alumni.
Munch Movement. A mobile catering business. Provides wood-fired pizzas at private parties, wedding receptions, corporate hospitality and events.
Mutant Labs. Computer games.
So Good Studios. eLearning computer games.
Total Monkery. Computer games.
Social enterprise: a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.
The Millfields Community Economic Development Trust
Set up to enable local people to contribute and manage the regeneration of the Stonehouse neighbourhood in Plymouth.
Owned by the community and managed by a professional staff under the direction of a Board of Directors. The Board consist of members representing the local community, City Council and tenants.
Core business is rental of commercial premises.
The trust provides a platform to enable small and medium sized business to grow and develop.
Widening Horizons is an innovative project developed by the Trust in conjunction with the six local primary schools located in Stonehouse. It enables students to explore new and challenging learning experiences through visits to a number of different venues spread across the city and further afield. The aim is to raise levels of aspirations and subsequently the levels of attainment in students taking part and thus open doors to possible career areas that were not previously considered.
Seedbed is one of ten projects in the UK funded by the Social Incubator Fund which is backed by the Cabinet Office. It is a new type of social accelerator programme that will offer intensive support and investment for social ventures in the South West.
Funded by the Cabinet Office and project partners, the £1.2 million project is able to provide £750,000 worth of loan investment and a support package of £8,500 per venture.
Based at Dartington. Link to more information.