Not only does our age allow us to run a company with a fresh outlook on technology but also gives us the opportunity to enter Rotherham's Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. As new entrants this year we can but hope our desire for business, flair to succeed and ability to introduce some great technology innovations into Rotherham businesses can help us stand out from those that have been established much longer.

It couldn't have come at a better time as the web service side of business is thriving, allowing us to spend more time and money marketing and developing our mobile and multi-touch products. Any exposure within these market sectors would be great for the company and allow us to demonstrate the possibilities still over looked by many major companies and areas of the public sector.

I originally started to write this the day before the competition interview after we were shortlisted to the next stage but here I am, writing it the day after instead. Well, as far as I can tell it went well and as always our multi-touch side of our business sparked some real interest and just as we do in our own free time, ideas about how and where it could be utilised were flying around the room.

We demonstrated the multi-touch application created for the Rotherham Exhibition and talked about our current success in our web services. We elaborated our aims and desires in pushing into the more technologically advanced mobile and multi-touch development.

It wasn't quite like the dragons den we were expecting but still didn't stop the quotes flying through my head, as every question was answered I expected comments such as "You are barking mad; it’s as simple as that", Duncan Bannatyne or maybe "You're Fired", Alan Sugar  or even "I don't think I can do this anymore", Simon Cowell. At the end of the interview we were both relieved everyone was really positive and glad we didn't need to bring on 'Pants Man' or some similar gimmick.  

The interviewing panel were great and hope they thought the same of us, we wish everyone else who has entered the best of luck.

Fingers crossed as this could really help in the aim to push our vision of creative digital technology.

This was not only our first exhibition involving our multi-touch technology but as a company was our first exhibition all together.

The event was organised by Darren McDool from RiDO who did a great job in getting together a great collection of young Rotherham entrepreneurs and some great exposure from many highly respected guests from around South Yorkshire.

This wasn't your normal exhibition though, as it was a small private event with around 13 companies of varying market sectors, speed dating was on the agenda. Fortunately for the guests they didn't have to listen to our boring personal lives and put up with our cheesy lines, most of the time, they experienced innovative technology that interested even the least tech savvy people. Unfortunately we only had 3 minutes to give our pitch and with two bespoke applications for the event, we sped through the talking like we were back at school doing a presentation in front of the class. 

The two demonstrations we gave, which we will be talking about in our next article, generated some amazing interest and provided some very positive feedback. Guests were amazed by what is still fresh new technology and instantly understood the benefits and possibilities, showing how natural user interface can improve social acceptance of IT.

One of the guests, a patent lawyer, was really interested in our developments and he confirmed our own research stating that he didn't know of any companies in the North of England that have ventured into multi-touch gesture development. We went with the intention to get across we are more than just a creative company, but an innovating company utilising the latest technology while attempting to enhance businesses through the use of IT.

We thoroughly enjoyed the event and looking forward to doing our next, hopefully on a bigger scale next time, our thanks go out to RiDO and more specifically Darren McDool.