{"id":49343,"date":"2016-11-17T22:45:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?p=49343"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:56:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:56:21","slug":"peoples-champion-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/peoples-champion-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Champion 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start-up name:&nbsp;<\/strong>Cornerstone<br>\n<strong>Founder:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oliver Bridge<br>\n<strong>Started in:&nbsp;<\/strong>2014<br>\n<strong>Based in:&nbsp;<\/strong>London<br>\n<strong>Business description: <\/strong>Shaving kit subscription service<\/p>\n<p>Presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startuploans.co.uk\/affiliates\/?utm_source=staging.startups.co.uk&amp;utm_medium=Affiliate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Start Up Loans<\/a>, and always one of the most of exciting and competitive categories, the People&rsquo;s Champion award is truly unique, with the winners voted for by you &ndash; the loyal readers of Startups.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>With more votes than ever before, this year really was a close shave. However, the people (in their thousands) have spoken!<\/p>\n<p>Retaining its title for a second year in a row, Cornerstone took home the People&rsquo;s Champion 2016 title at this year&rsquo;s Startups Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by young serial entrepreneur Oliver Bridge, who started his first business when he was just 15, Cornerstone sells men&rsquo;s razors and shaving products on a regular, flexible online subscription service &ndash; with subscribers allowed to cancel, pause, or change their order at any time.<\/p>\n<p>The start-up&rsquo;s tailored &lsquo;shaving plan&rsquo; &ndash; which includes a razor, gel, face scrub and post shave balm &ndash; enables users to re-stock their bathroom cupboard based on their own personal routine.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming to bring &ldquo;shaving into the 21st&nbsp;century&rdquo;, Cornerstone ignores the &lsquo;gimmicks&rsquo; and &lsquo;cheesy&rsquo; marketing of some of its big brand rivals and says its success is down to its back-to-basics mentality; its signature lightweight razor is handcrafted in Britain and uses German-engineered blades.<\/p>\n<p>Within two years of launching, Cornerstone has already reached 85,000 subscribers and received &pound;4.5m worth of funding, and expects to hit six-figures for customers by the end of the year &ndash; no wonder the 5,000 voters think it&rsquo;s a cut above the rest!<\/p>\n<p>FanFinders took highly commended for People&rsquo;s Champion, with the second highest number of votes, with &lsquo;flowers-through-the-letterbox&rsquo; service Bloom &amp; Wild earning the commended title.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start-up name:&nbsp;Cornerstone Founder:&nbsp;Oliver Bridge Started in:&nbsp;2014 Based in:&nbsp;London Business description: Shaving kit subscription service Presented by Start Up Loans, and always one of the most of exciting and competitive categories, the People&rsquo;s Champion award is truly unique, with the winners voted for by you &ndash; the loyal readers of Startups.co.uk. 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