Startups Awards 2008

Gold Sponsors

BT Tradespace
www.bttradespace.com

"List Your Business for Free with BT Tradespace
BT Tradespace has been created to enable small and medium businesses to use the internet as a NEW and FREE sales and marketing channel. This unique platform brings businesses and individuals together making it easy for them to do business online. Launched in April 2007, the site currently has over 130,000 SMEs. Anyone can buy and sell products and services, find a business and network with other like-minded people. Unlike a conventional business directory, BT Tradespace members can use social media tools such as blogs, photos, videos and podcasts to help promote their products and services. They can also network through the Tradespace Communities platform and create new business leads.
For prospective customers, it provides the opportunity to get to know a business before buying from them. It's free to register on BT Tradespace and you can create your site in minutes whether you already have a website or not: Click here, its free to join!

NetRegs
www.netregs.gov.uk

www.netregs.gov.uk is delighted to sponsor the 2008 Startups Awards Green Business of the Year category. Some environmentally-friendly practices are obligatory. Others, such as saving money on energy, just make good business sense. NetRegs provides businesses with the guidance they need to meet their environmental obligations.

Businesses can register to receive free email alerts, which will keep them up-to-date with changes in regulations that affect their business. A Waste Directory on the website provides details of local waste management sites, so users can be sure they are working with licensed operators. It also enables businesses to select recycling in preference to disposal facilities.

To register for the e-alert service, access the Waste Directory or for more information on the environmental legislation affecting your business,
visit www.netregs.gov.uk

Sun UK
http://uk.sun.com/startups

The most innovative companies today are taking advantage of next-generation, collaborative Web 2.0 capabilities to reach out to new prospects, enhance the sense of loyalty among existing customers, and run their operations more efficiently. Whether your firm is a new or established startup — or a large enterprise — if you're seeking to go beyond the limits of traditional HTML, you'll want to construct your new dynamic Web capabilities upon a solid platform of systems, enterprise software and services from a proven IT partner in Sun Microsystems

Visit uk.sun.com/startups to see how you could benefit.

Silver Sponsors

VISA
http://www.visaeurope.com/business

In Europe, there are over 348 million Visa debit, credit and commercial cards. In the 12 months ending September 2007, those cards were used to make purchases and cash withdrawals to the value of over €1.3 trillion.

Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance and is welcomed by more than 27 million suppliers worldwide. Visa also offers a range of business products that enable small businesses and sole traders to make payments easily and helps them to operate more efficiently.

For more information on Visa’s range of Small Business Solutions please visit www.visaeurope.com/business or e-mail commercial@visa.com quoting “Startup Awards” in the subject field.

Media Partner

Startups
www.startups.co.uk
Inspiring new businesses

Startups.co.uk is the UK’s largest independent resource for anyone starting and running a small business. It offers free and easy to understand help and advice on all aspects of starting and running a business. The site contains 10,000 searchable pages of information, news that is updated hourly and an interactive forum where ideas and views are exchanged. In fact 83% of our readers rate startups.co.uk as the most useful source of information for small businesses.