Launchpad

Launchpad

Featuring entrepreneurs, investors & other key industry players, Launchpad reveals what is needed to scale a successful technology startup.

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April 1, 2024 53 mins
The latest episode of TechBlast’s webinar series Launchpad focuses on marketing strategies for tech scaleup companies.

Launchpad, brought to you in association with Tyto PR, reveals what it takes to scale a successful technology startup via honest conversations with entrepreneurs, investors & other key industry players who have a story to tell.

Co-hosts Jonathan Symcox, editor at TechBlast and BusinessClo...
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This episode of Launchpad features Martin SFP Bryant, founder of PreSeed Now.

Martin is a technology journalist with long experience covering startups. A former editor at The Next Web, he also served as community editor at Tech North before founding business and marketing consultancy Big Revolution and the PreSeed Now newsletter.

He is also the editor of social media consultant Matt Navarra’s weekly Geekout n...
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This episode of Launchpad features Tom Dunlop, CEO of Summize.

Tom is a former corporate lawyer who founded Summize in 2019 to improve legal contract management through technology. Its software integrates into other tech platforms to digitalise and automate a sector which remains bogged down in traditional manual processes.

In 2023 the Manchester company reported triple-digit percentage revenue growth for the...
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This episode of Launchpad features Simon Benson, director of immersive technology at IN4 Group, operator of HOST.

Simon began his career as an immersive simulation engineer at BAE Systems before entering the world of videogames at Evolution Studios and leading development of PlayStation 3 launch title MotorStorm. After Sony acquired Evolution, he pioneered stereoscopic 3D on PS3 before pitching and bringing to life Pl...
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This episode of Launchpad features Colin Gray, founder of The Podcast Host and Alitu.

The Podcast Host is a business which helps podcasts to launch, grow and run their own show.

Technology platform Alitu is a simple tool for recording, editing and publishing podcasts. The all-in-one podcast maker is used by 2,600+ ambitious podcasters to ship their show – including Logitech, Harvard and Stanford Universities,...
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This episode of Launchpad features Dawn Duggan, head of people, skills & talent at GC Business Growth Hub.

Duggan's organisation seeks to unlock the potential of businesses across Greater Manchester via a variety of support services including technology, finance, enterprise, leadership development, social impact and a pathway to Net Zero. Culture is at the forefront of everything it does.

Duggan is respon...
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The opening episode of Launchpad features Tech Returners CEO Beckie Taylor.

Taylor scaled her business alongside co-founder James Heggs over five years whilst raising two very young children. Specialising in the training and placing of mid-senior level professionals looking to re-enter the workplace after a career break in the tech sector, it was inspired by Taylor’s own experience when she returned to a high-flying H...
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