When your business is in its early days, it’s natural to be thinking about what you need to do to gain investment and profit as soon as possible. But you’ve got to be careful about taking shortcuts, or about relying too much on emulating other successfully funded businesses in order to get ahead. While it’s smart to study up on how your competitors have achieved success, you’ll never get your own business right through a copy-paste approach.
Cambridge-based data company Qureight has raised £1.5m seed funding to deliver the next generation of its ground-breaking platform and capitalise on its vision to house the world’s largest collection of data from complex diseases.
With a new year comes a new set of exciting opportunities, as well as challenges for every business – meeting set targets and goals, as well as improving organisational strategy and productivity. However, the mental wellbeing of employees and workforces shouldn’t be left to the wayside.
As we head into 2022, when we’re likely going to see further impacts of the Great Resignation, it’s more important than ever that HR leaders and hiring managers get comfortable with these kinds of conversations. According to our Employee Movement and Retention Report, 55% of UK workers will consider seeking a new job in 2022. That’s a lot of job interviews, and a lot of salary chat!
Imagine an employee or a customer sustaining a serious injury in your workplace; fines, lawsuits, damage to your reputation – not to mention the trauma inflicted on you and your staff.
Following the turbulence and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s no secret that businesses throughout the UK have been forced to adapt to the evolving demands of the new normal.
Sustainability hasn’t just remained a province for non-profit organisations. Many companies are coming forward to embrace the responsibility of creating an environmentally sustainable future.
Guy Rigby and David Murray – with a combined age of 124 – made the row to raise funds for UnLtd, a charity that supports entrepreneurs from marginalised communities
Recent research by Factmata estimates around $2 billion a year is earned by the creators of disinformation and other harmful content
Canva sets sights on growth in Europe with global community surpassing 75 million monthly active users.
The pandemic encouraged business owners to rethink their methods of operation. One of the ways businesses adapted to the growing online market was hybrid selling, where you sell products both online and in-store.
As we enter a new year, and hopefully a more normal year than more recent ones, we wanted to take a look and see what the sector might bring us this year and what trends we maybe graced with in 2022. We spoke to a few names in the entrepreneurial world to ask about their 2022 predictions.
More than three quarters (76%) of Brits admit they’ve been ghosted by an employer or prospective employer in the past 18 months, despite over half (59%) having been ghosted themselves, according to new research from people analytics company, Visier.
Spiideo is the advanced video recording solution, enabling sports organisations and teams around the world to automatically stream, record, and collect data on live sporting events, training, and performances.
Whether you’re a startup founder, marketer, or future entrepreneur I want to tell you that 90 percent of startups and young businesses simply don’t survive long-term. Now, where did I come up with that stat? It’s not just something I make up. I’m going to talk a lot in this article about being data-driven in the ‘moves’ we make as marketers, so know that anytime I throw a number out, it’s researched backed, just like you should be with your marketing.
Let’s face it, the internet is a crowded place. When you’re just setting up your new business, one of the first hurdles that entrepreneurs have to overcome is to simply get noticed. Entrepreneurship has risen by 30% in the last couple of years (Financial Times) and 98 new businesses formed every hour during Q1 of 2021 (Business Leader). So, how can you stand out in a saturated marketplace?
As Amazon’s CTO since 2005, Werner Vogels has observed macro trends around the technology industry, giving him a unique perspective to distinguish substantive progress from mere fads. He recently published his views on what he sees in store in 2022 for cloud technology and the technology world in general.
A new platform designed to improve the health and wellbeing of employees has announced its plans to raise £1m for charities across the UK in a bid to truly make exercise count.
AQRU, an incubator specialising in decentralised finance (DeFi), announced that it has acquired Bison Exchange UAB (Bison), a blockchain technology company registered in Lithuania, for a cash consideration of €30,000.
INTEMA by MTS AI is delighted to announce that it is joining Global Accelerator Network (GAN), an international association of accelerators and startup studios.
