RYAN FLANAGAN Founder and CEO of UniNav
What is UniNav and how did you come up with the idea? I came up with the idea for UniNav as part of my final year project at Uni of Hertfordshire. We all use location services such as googlemaps everyday on our smartphones to find our way around but whilst these can direct you down a street, what about finding your way around complex building. So I developed UniNav which is an indoor navigation system to help users find their way around large complex buildings such as universities or hospitals.
Have you received support for the project? I won the award for most Innovative Idea at the University of Hertfordshire flare awards which has given me some good exposure
and some useful insights into turning my idea into a business. I’m a natural innovator and its only been in the last few months that the business side of things has started to become important to me.
What has been the most rewarding part of building your business to date? Shortly after winning the award for most innovative idea and people started coming up t me, they knew the idea, they got the concept and everyone had ideas for its application and how to build it into a scalable business.
Where do you yourself in 3 years time?
I’d like to have several working sites up and running in large hospitals and shopping malls where the opportunities for developing revenue streams to the business are immense.
JAMES HENDERSON Co founder
www.facebook.com/LoveBrightbook www.mybrightbook.com james@mybrightbook.com
What is Brightbook all about and where did you come up with the idea?
Brightbook – the best free, easy and secure way to manage your small business online. Brightbook is online accounting software that gives you a complete view of your business. Helping freelancers, sole traders and small businesses to focus on what’s most important. Getting paid. We created Brightbook because, like so many other small business owners, we hated bookkeeping, and we found other complicated accounting solutions expensive and time consuming. We wanted to create a brand that would encourage people to make their ideas happen, would be un-finance-like and would be free and easy to use - there will be additional paid subscription services.
What do you like most about being an entrepreneur?
The amount you learn about all aspects of running a business, because you have to do it all. Being the first to create a new feature before our much larger competitors.
Where would you like to see yourself in 3 years time? 1million users globally, 50k of whom are paying for additional subscription services.
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