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Many leaders are currently contending with a motivational crisis among teams, with many people feeling weary and apathetic at work.
Three startups venturing into the field of women’s hygiene and health were awarded funding at a first of its kind co-creation challenge last month.
The business environment is constantly in a state of flux. It regularly experiences changes in costs, product demand, customer preferences, regulations, ease of cross-border shipment, the viability of different transportation modes, and more.
As a startup founder, you’ve grown into a position that’s exciting, but can also be quite lonesome. It’s important to have good advisors, but often those within the business have an agenda that doesn’t align with your own. This is where an executive coach can be helpful, offering an unbiased, impartial view.
Whether it be your personal life, your career, or relationships these two components are the ultimate Key to achieving true success.
In the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in trademark applications before the UK registry. This brings with it an increased risk that an identical or confusingly similar application to your rights might be filed.
After pivoting with pace and entrepreneurialism during the Covid-19 pandemic, SMEs are now adapting again to a new set of challenges. Our recent Business Barometer research found that over half (52%) of SMEs state that rising costs present the biggest challenge to the running of their business.
Budgeting for 2023 will be one of the most daunting tasks marketers will face this year. This is due, in part, to the current economic climate. Marketers around the world are planning for next year knowing that they will have to reduce their budgets.
We’ve all heard the old cliché: if young people just spent less money on avocado toast, or skipped a latte every once in a while, they might actually be able to afford a house. These proverbs have seemingly become gospel, but they’re patently false. In fact, it would take the money saved from skipping almost 25,000 portions of avocado toast to buy a house in London – that’s one portion every day for 65 years.
Woody Allen once said that 80% of all success is down to showing up, but for many startups finding the right people – both partners and employees – is an equally important step on the road to success.
Few things are more exhilarating than the feeling of starting your own business.
Rupert Dean, CEO of x+why, looks at the future of the workplace in the hybrid working era and how companies should be using them to best effect.
“My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop,” said Prime minister Boris Johnson. Worryingly, he’s not the only person to believe the office is essential.
Looking at the distribution of venture capital investments today, women receive five times less financing than their male counterparts. In 2020, only 2.3% of venture capital funds went to businesses started by women around $3.7bn and, more than $160bn went to companies created by men. Moreover, only 12% of decision-makers at venture capital firms are women, and many VC companies have no female partners.
Black Friday in the United States has become somewhat of a religious movement bordering on hysteria, with people camping outside of department stores for several days—subsequently disregarding Thanksgiving, the family holiday which summoned Black Friday in the first place—with people literally getting mauled and trampled to death just over some discounted products.
Owning a small business is hard work at any time, let alone right now. In fact, for many owners, the combined impact of the pandemic and the cost of living crisis probably adds up to the most challenging economic circumstances they’ve ever experienced.
While customers searching for Black Friday deals online are advised to follow a few simple guidelines to stay safe and avoid cybercriminals taking advantage of the annual shopping frenzy, tech experts explain what retailers can do to keep their devices and data secure.
Jeremy Hunt’s pledge in last week’s Autumn Statement to make the UK the “world’s next Silicon Valley” was music to the ears of those involved in Britain’s thriving technology community. It is a laudable ambition, but as everyone working in UK tech knows, the foundations that can turn it into a reality were laid many years ago.
When launching any enterprise, commercial or social, the key question to ask is why? Why am I creating this business? Who is it for? Do they need it? Does it help people get a job done in a better, more effective way? You need to know a project will be economically sustainable.
We live in a world where businesses constantly reinvent themselves to remain competitive. Automation and digitisation goals feature in well over half of all today’s businesses’ long-term corporate strategies, according to PwC’s most recent annual Global CEO Survey. Which is why artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual worlds or ‘metaverse’ related technologies and tools have risen to prominence, particularly in relation to improving on-the-job training and upskilling new talent.
