Creativity has always played a deeply important role in my life, so when I became a founder, giving creativity a seat at the table felt like the most natural, vital thing I could do for my business. And my journey to becoming CEO of my agency, Grizzly, couldn’t have happened if I hadn’t had a creative vision that I now share with my whole team.
Growth is often the number one priority for any startup. With growth comes revenue and with revenue should come profit, eventually. However, growth is all about finding the sweet spot – too much, too quickly and your startup could be left short of resources or without the proper structure in place to support your expansion. Too slow and your business could face stagnation and lose the race to turn profitable. The sweet spot is what’s known as sustainable growth – the rate at which your resources, structure and systems can support growth without risking the quality of your product or service, or operations as a whole. Below we’ll explore some of the areas of your startup that you should be focusing on to help generate sustainable growth.
Vendease, a Y Combinator-backed digital platform that allows restaurants in Africa to buy supplies, access financial services and power their business operations, has raised $30 million in an equity and debt funding round to consolidate its growth and operations in Nigeria and Ghana, and to support its expansion across the continent.
Trescon’s World Cloud Show, a global series of events lands in Dubai this 27 – 28 September 2022 as it aims at bringing together experts and thought leaders to discuss how the innovations have come about in the industry, and how this ecosystem is gearing up for a streamlined growth.
Some things in life are simple truths: night follows day and people love pizza. This is clearly the case for British taste-buds, as the UK pizza industry market size hit a whopping £3272 million in 2021.
‘Net-zero’, or the principle of achieving complete carbon neutrality, is a principle that has been adopted by several nation states in recent years. The growing severity of the climate crisis has inspired necessary action from governments around the world, all working in concert via recommendations and accords achieved through the COP summits.
Darren Goode, former President and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Elvie, is taking up a new role as a leading Advisor at femtech startup Béa Fertility. Darren led Elvie to become a global healthtech brand with revenues exceeding $26m. He now joins Béa as the team gears up to bring its hotly anticipated fertility device to market.
On Wednesday 28th September, at 1.00pm, Phil Fraser, the Business Sounding Board, is delivering a free webinar titled ‘How to prepare to sell your Business…before it is even for sale’.
When a team works in harmony wonderful things happen; productivity increases, creativity is unleashed, and problem-solving is reignited. This comes from everybody being in flow, enjoying a more profound knowledge of one another, and playing to their strengths.
ElligencIA, the artificial intelligence fintech company and sentiment analysis expert, announces its first partnership with DevanceApp, a B2B financial messaging specialist that facilitates decision-making and the execution of corporate financial risk coverage.
The last decade has seen a huge boom in the global startup ecosystem, with digital and tech startups driving innovation across every industry imaginable. Last year, VC investment in startups hit an all-time high, almost doubling to reach $621 billion globally and shatter historic funding records. In recent years, the UK has created more tech unicorns than any other country except the US and China. Following a turbulent couple of years, post-pandemic investor confidence in startups seemed to have skyrocketed, and it seemed the startup sector was on the path to an unprecedented recovery.
Infobip Shift, the largest developer conference in Southeast Europe, gathered more than 4,000 attendees in its 11th edition held last week. Developers, software engineers, and IT experts from more than 30 countries worldwide came to Zadar, Croatia for a two-day event featuring more than 75 talks, and almost a hundred speakers.
Majid Al Futtaim, the leading shopping mall, communities, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has revealed 14 start-ups and SME winners to join its Launchpad accelerator programme across three categories, Homegrown, Health and Beauty, and Proptech. The successful companies will now receive unrivalled access to business growth incentives, mentorship programmes and the vast Majid Al Futtaim innovation ecosystem to strengthen their commercial viability across the region.
Members of London’s leading business club Home Grown receive exclusive business support and mentorship packages worth over £5,000.
The survey of 1000 UK SMEs, conducted by Funding Options and Censuswide, found less than half of business owners are ‘very confident’ of surviving the next six months (42%)
A company’s values today are almost as important as its financial performance, so what can businesses do to ensure their recruitment process is reflecting their ethos – and what part does technology play?
Following this morning’s fiscal statement by the Chancellor, Startups Magazine collates statements from industry experts reacting to the news and providing insight into what this means to the UK digital economy and wider investment landscape.
Hospitals, doctors and other healthcare professionals are expected to provide a certain standard of care but what happens when care fails to meet this standard? Or when an error is made resulting in harm or injury to a patient? In this article, we’ll take a closer look at what medical negligence is and discuss some of the factors that make you eligible to make a medical negligence claim.
Cello’s pioneering product, backed by byFounders, TinyVC, Possible Ventures, and Notion Capital enables SaaS businesses to make word-of-mouth their
most valuable growth channel.
Lavanda, the global leader in flexible living solutions for institutional real estate, and Spruce, the leading on-demand service provider for multifamily communities, today announce a strategic partnership designed to provide US multifamily portfolios with a comprehensive and industry-defining short-term rental solution.
