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Female entrepreneurs are still underrepresented in business, but the numbers are growing. The Rose Review Progress Report 2022 showed that more women than ever are creating new businesses.
Paige West caught up with the team at AllBright to find out how this private member’s club for women, in Mayfair, is driving change for smart-minded women.
The challenge of climate change must be met with serious urgency. Countries around the world need to pursue efforts to limit global warming, and the energy sector has an important role to play in helping achieve carbon neutrality, or net zero.
For an entrepreneur there are few things as exciting as starting a new business. From bagging your first client or sale to turning the keys in the door of your first office, the big moments come thick and fast at the beginning.
Despite the economic backdrop, there were over 3.8 million new business applications filed in the first three quarters of 2022, making us Brits keen for entrepreneurial action.
I was fortunate enough to attend the London PropTech show last month, which featured a wide range of innovative exhibitors showcasing the technologies that will shape the future of the property industry.
You woke up with a brilliant idea that you know is going to be the next best thing, but now what?
Keeping employees happy to commit and grow within a business should be a core aim of HR teams. However, it has been reported that nearly half of employees leave their role because they do not feel appreciated – particularly during the first quarter of the year when people naturally look for change.
The share of funding secured by female founders is unfairly and disproportionately low, a state of affairs that has remained unchanged for many years despite advances made in other areas of gender equality in business.
Women, tech, sustainability – all buzzwords at the moment. But Noleen Mariappen, Impact Entrepreneur and Advisor, can tell you that the journey for a woman in the tech space is far from all buzz!
As manufacturing startups rely more on digital technologies, they become more vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
As more startups expand internationally, and look abroad for expansion opportunities earlier in their life cycle, the tax function has shot up the boardroom priority list to mitigate against hefty revenue losses and risk of non-compliance with local tax guidelines.
It feels like artificial intelligence has developed more in the past week than it has in the last 10 years.
My background is in R&D, marketing, and business strategy, so lends itself well to where I find myself today.
Sadly, with only 10% of startups making it through their first year, there’s no doubt they face a challenge ahead of them. Reasons for this can include poor budgeting, misplaced marketing, lack of research, and/or choosing the wrong partners.
That whole Monday to Friday, nine to five institution most of us know as reality is apparently coming to an end…or so they say.
Launching a startup is an exciting time, but typically it can also be a little frantic as you struggle to juggle competing necessities before your launch date.
