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Raising Businesses From Startups

Dotforge is an initiative created to attract and nurture top startups from around the world using Expired domains with SEO value and by providing them with pre-seed capital, mentorship and the environment they need to build and grow their business. We recommend checking out The science behind intuition.
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Shape

Our programme is split into 3 stages. During the first few weeks we introduce startups to a variety of mentors that will help them shape their product.

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Build

Armed with the new knowledge, startups then continue to develop their product whilst receiving ongoing feedback from potential clients.

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Sell

Towards the end of the programme we help startups acquire early adopters and prepare them for raising capital from our investors.

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Mentors

James Parton - Twilio
James Parton - Twilio
James is Twilio’s Director of European Marketing, and brings over 20 years experience at the intersection of telecommunications and the web; covering marketing, product development, product management and sales.
Jon Bradford - Techstars
Jon Bradford - Techstars
Jon is the Managing Director of Techstars and co-founder of f6s.com. Over the last 2 years, Jon has helped start 12 multi-company accelerators from Montreal to Moscow. Since launching Europe’s first accelerator in 2009 – The Difference Engine – he helped launch Springboard which was acquired by Techstars.
John Webb - Rackspace
John Webb - Rackspace
John Webb is Marketing Director for Startups & Developers at Rackspace, previously led Marketing at Rockstar Games, Yahoo! and Heinz.

Delivery Team

Emma Cheshire
Emma Cheshire
Emma founded Germinate Consultancy in 2011 to offer strategic and business development for creative and digital agencies, arts organisations and charities. In 2013 she established and ran the Dotforge accelerator as Programme Director.
River Tamoor Baig
River Tamoor Baig
Co-founded Hive, a distraction free collaboration tool for startups. As Programme Manager, River structures the Dotforge curriculum.
Lee Strafford - EIR
Lee Strafford - EIR
Co-founder and CEO of PlusNet (acquired by BT for £67m). As Entrepreneur-in-Residence Lee advises Dotforge startups weekly.
Sina Sh - CTO In Residence
Sina Sh - CTO In Residence
PhD student at Sheffield, CTO-in-Residence. Runs a web solutions company, consulted multinationals, advises on technology strategies.
Tobias Stone
Tobias Stone
Former UK Govt. policy advisor & startup advisor. Ran a real estate fund in Estonia, now based in London, Berlin, and SE Europe.

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Creative England invests in and supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media.

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