Thursday 13 January

Today on StartupSmart, we profile four of the start-ups that triumphed in the recent Startmate seed funding and mentorship program.

Ranging from the makers of a game that’s described as ‘Foursquare meets Mafia Wars’ to a firm that assesses the mood of customers from their emails and Tweets, these tech start-ups are a varied, innovative bunch that are all aiming for the big time. Read their stories to see if you can pick out a future star.

Elsewhere, SEO guru Wai Hong Fong returns to explain how your website shows up in Google’s index and mentor Steve Kingston examines what an ‘up and coming’ property area for businesses looks like.

Oliver Milman, editor