The Accelerator Network, a high-growth startup support service, has officially opened for business with a target of delivering guidance to 1,000 UK entrepreneurs each year alongside NatWest, Crowdcube, Dell, Virgin and Visa.
By Jan Cavelle
Careful and cultured management from music mogul Simon Cowell has shown that not only can you more often than not change someone’s mind, but, in the case of world-famous band One Direction, you need to focus on what remains.
The debut Start Tank mentorship programme from PayPal and Braintree has come to an end after six months. And as the payment firms prepare to welcome another selection of startups into the latter’s London office, they’ve revealed how the five companies graduating from the scheme have grown over the period.
A Birmingham-based business hub has been opened by NatWest and Entrepreneurial Spark today (9 February), marking the first of eight accelerator offices to open across the UK.
