Gender Diversity: It’s Just Smart Business

A diverse team can have a huge impact on a business’ success. Diverse management teams can increase revenue by 19%. Racially and ethnically diverse teams are 35 percent more likely to perform better, and they’re 87% better at making decisions. Inclusive companies are 1.7x more innovative when compared to companies that aren’t diverse or inclusive.

Partnership to provide better data solutions

Today Datavid, a data intelligence startup, and Graphifi, a knowledge graph solutions startup, announced their partnership to provide better data solutions across key industry verticals. 

Sustainable Marketing: How to Tell your Story
This article is part 3 of 6 in the series Marketing Tips with Lion Spirit Media

In the words of Philip Kotler, a marketing author, consultant, and professor: “A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place.”

 

Britain’s Burnout Crisis

Companies risk mass exodus as more than half of young professionals (those aged 16-34), feel burnt out right now, according to new research exploring experiences of burnout pre and post pandemic from people analytics company, Visier.

Business, bumps, babies and boobs

Prior to starting Hertility Health, my co-founders and I realised that even though our careers and personal lives were very different, we all had one thing in common: we wanted reassurance about our fertility health. We found ourselves asking the same questions you might also ask yourself: “Should our career come before a family?” or “Why do we have to make a choice between the two?” And when we searched for help with these big questions, we came up empty handed.

Staccs, agrees major long-term deal with INA

Swedish tech startup, Staccs, agrees major long-term deal with INA, unearthing extraordinary, rare music content for its premium streaming service for concert video

 

How Many Angels Make a Crowd?

When it comes to considering how best to raise pre-seed or seed finance for your business, one of the most commonly asked questions is whether getting investment from business angels or crowdfunding would be better. It could be argued that business angels are just much wealthier versions of people that invest on crowdfunding platforms. As such, in reality it is more a case of a small number of angels can replace a much larger crowd.

How to grow your new business’s digital footprint

Have you ever considered starting a new company, only to feel disappointed by the lack of growth? Here are some tips on how to get your startup up and running 

Which cities are searching for the best deals this Black Friday

Black Friday 2021, which cities are searching for the best deals and what items are trending?

Akamai announces future of Life Online Challenge

Challenge will award up to four visionary companies with a total of $1 million in Akamai security, content delivery, and or edge compute solutions

Positive action from entrepreneurs must be COP26’s legacy

The vital role of the nation’s six million small businesses in helping the UK achieve its net zero goal by 2050 is being highlighted by the Small Business Saturday campaign, as Glasgow’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) draws to a close.

An altered landscape: How the pandemic changed how SMBs operate

The complexion of the SMB landscape is regularly subject to change. Disruptive market entrants, new technologies, and fluctuations in the economy, represent just a handful of the influences that can force SMBs to revise their business models.

How an IP creator contends with deadlines in the patent process
How an IP creator contends with deadlines in the patent process

With the ever-increasing focus on tech in our lives and the sheer volume of new, ground-breaking tech launches that one hears or reads about, you could miss one vital element of their story. The IP behind them. And, for any tech that has significant IP value, the IP creator/founder needs to be acutely aware of the lead times available in the patent process. If deadlines are missed, rights can vanish in an instant. Jim Gastle, IP enthusiast and Canadian patent agent, explains this in more detail.

Allia partners with climate innovation initiative

Allia is the first UK partner of EIT Climate-KIC to run a 6-month intensive Accelerator offering climate tech founders the opportunity to develop their startups and tackle the critical mission of the climate crisis. The programme team are looking to recruit startups that have innovative solutions demonstrating potential for scalable impact, be it in carbon removal, adaptation, an enabling technology or a relevant social or environmental enterprise.

Is Leasing Everything Risky for My Business?

In today’s world, we are leasing assets a lot more regularly. According to Dataforce, Europeans are leasing and renting cars more than ever before, including both short-term and operational leasing. Over the last five years, the leasing market skyrocketed from 2.6 million to four million due to the culture of ownership evolving.

Guiding startups in implementing the right infrastructure

With the launch of Build on AWS, AWS simplified the first steps of launching scalable, reliable, secure, and optimised infrastructure tailored to startups’ industry or use case. This enables startups to focus on building their core product knowing they’re using AWS best practices for their underlying cloud infrastructure. We spoke to Katie Drucker, Director and Global Leader, Business Development, on how AWS is continuing to help guide startups in their journeys to choose and implement the right infrastructure for their business needs.

Calling all impactful entrepreneurs

Startups from all over the USA are invited to submit their application at Pitch2Scale. The Startup battle will reward and recognise the most interesting entrepreneurs as part of the two-day contest.

Menopause isn’t just a ‘women’s problem’ – least of all at work

Menopause seems to still languish in the outdated ‘women’s problems’ list of things to brush under the carpet when it comes to employee health – despite the fact that just over half the population will experience it.

How to market your startup as an introvert

You might be surprised at just how many introverts choose to set-up in business for themselves. If you were to believe all of the myths and misconceptions about introverts and introversion, you’d picture us hiding in a corner afraid to say boo to a goose!

Ordering app, ROUND, launches on Crowdcube

ROUND, an ordering app, launches its public phase of investment via the online platform Crowdcube. So far, the app has been able to raise £3.3m from experienced investors but looks for further investment to expand its business horizons.