Welcome
Welcome to Varoom – specialists in Mentoring, Coaching and Teaching High tech enterprise skills to Entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups in the South West.
We have decades of start-up, fund raising, business development & technology marketing experience in high-technology markets and skills across the board in defining, marketing and implementing business strategies.
Varoom was founded by Greville Commins in 2007
- With over 30 years in technology marketing and senior management, over 20 years at Director level in addition to worldwide experience gained from living and working abroad.
- In my early years I created a start up company specialising in computer aided test systems.
- Since 2001 have been a mentor for budding entrepreneurs in the South West and an Entrepreneur in Residence in SETsquared Bristol since early 2007.
- Delivering Enterprise skills courses at local Universities and various organisations.
- My blog allows me to capture the advice I give whilst mentoring and offer it for the benefit of others.
- Of course these blog opinions are my own and there are many ways to develop business and marketing plans in order to be successful
- Through my roles as Non-Executive Director and Non-Executive Chair in High Tech early stage companies the experience helps keep mentoring advice current.
- Why Varoom as a name? Well its the noise made when you rev a sports car engine just before you drop the clutch and speed off!
- Hopefully I can help with the speeding part!
Greville Commins
greville.commins@varoom.co.uk
G’Day Grev,
Good to see you sharing your experience with up and coming entrepreneurs – it would have been great to have had someone like you for advice when we started up all those years ago!
Rob lewis
Managing Director
PaxMondeo Pty Ltd
Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so! really nice post.
I envy your work , thanks for all the informative blog posts.
Not a bad guide, Although it could have been longer