Femtech, technology aimed at supporting female health, has been on the rise in recent years as millions of women turn to technology to gain insight into their bodies.
You are convinced that your novel and amazing business idea is going to change the world. So what do you do next to get it off and running? In the autumn of 2021, we raised a £300k pre-seed round for FoodLama from some notable angels who had exited their ventures to companies like Snap and Twitter, as well as someone on the board of Kraft Heinz. This is an attempt at describing what we learnt before, during and after that journey.
For nearly four months, Europe has been dealing with the topic of the war in Ukraine. The current situation also affects recruitment and employee management – leaders, managers and employees are wondering how to talk to their work colleagues or candidates about the difficult issue of the war that is taking place just beyond Poland’s eastern border. The tense situation is particularly visible in all the neighboring countries of Ukraine. Here we look at it from the perspective of a country that has received over 3.2 million refugees.
If you’re in debt, you’re not alone. In fact, according to a 2019 report from the Federal Reserve, the average American household owes nearly $7,000 in credit card debt. But just because debt is common doesn’t mean it’s easy to deal with. If you’re struggling to keep up with your payments, it can feel like you’re drowning in a sea of numbers with no end. But there is light at the end of the tunnel
Building on its record-breaking Series B investment, SEON has hired Matt Davies, formerly VP of Customer Marketing at Splunk as its new Chief Marketing Officer in a move that highlights the company’s marketing-first approach to business development. We caught up with Matt to learn more about his journey and his new role.
We’ve all struggled with feeling like we’re not good enough, and it’s common for employees to end up feeling like an imposter in the workplace – but according to Mike Jones, founder of Better Happy, these feelings of insecurity can actually benefit your business.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve surveyed our customer base, with the findings indicating that most UK businesses are starting to return to pre-pandemic levels of business travel, with plans to increase their business travel further in the future. Even international travel, which is still somewhat disrupted, is slowly increasing. These seem reflective of the wider UK too as the country gets to grips with a hybrid way of working with more miles on the road and in the air, while home working remains here to stay.
To be a successful entrepreneur means that you have to run a successful business. That in turn requires your business to sell products or services that customers want to buy and at a price that they are prepared to pay. In addition, the profit margins that you make need to be sufficient to support a growing business.
Launching a business is not easy. As a young entrepreneur, you have to focus on different areas. Although your primary responsibilities include empowering and scaling a business, you must focus on equity. Equity management becomes critical when considering investors for funding your business.
We are giving away 2 tickets to this year’s Hustle Awards and a bottle of champagne! You have three chances to win as we will be giving away a pair of tickets each week throughout July.
As the cost of living continues to climb and a potential recession looms, small businesses are facing new challenges. The pandemic, which already brought about an accelerated shift to online shopping, has piled the pressure on high street brands to keep pace with online counterparts.
The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance – a group of technology companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft – announced its commitment to supporting passwordless authentication across its products.
The soaring cost of living will be affecting many employees in numerous ways and having a detrimental impact on their health and wellbeing. In fact, research has found that 72% of those seeking debt help say debt makes them ill and 77% of employees say that money worries impact them at work. However, there are steps that employers can take to help employees make their money go further.
A UK manufacturing outsourcing specialist is aiming to help domestic businesses cross the well-publicised ‘valley of death’.
Startups Magazine looks at the amazing work that startups are doing with AI and other tech to bolster the medical world’s diagnosis, treatment, and overall understanding of Parkinson’s disease.
The demand for app development doesn’t show signs of getting slower any sooner. As apps are an accessible type of technology, where people can have access from anywhere, the consumers’ interest in this technology is vital. Therefore, many companies are taking this trend and changing their traditional environment to mobile for effective business positioning. But developing an app isn’t easy and takes time and teamwork for a positive outcome.
You’ve got a great idea for a startup, and you’re ready to make it happen. You don’t have a surefire marketing strategy in mind yet. But you know one thing – you gotta have an active email list ASAP.
Exchange, has opened applications to find its fourth cohort of tech entrepreneurs who are disrupting and leading their fields. The tech start-up support scheme has seen its members scale, raise millions of pounds in funding, create hundreds of jobs, and win a series of national awards
It is no secret that the technology sector is not going through the best of times. We have seen several unicorns make drastic decisions about their businesses, announcing layoffs and exiting markets in which they were present in order to reduce costs and preserve their liquidity.
Accounting firms are missing a key opportunity to adopt Open Banking to help meet the needs of small businesses facing a cash flow squeeze, according to a report by iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, and AccountingWeb.
