The holiday season can be a stressful time for any startup. However, add the current global supply chain issues to the holiday rush, and businesses just might see a repeat of the fulfillment issues from late 2020.
From the time of your initial idea, you will have been thinking of all the very many steps necessary of turning your vision into reality. One of the first steps when starting up is to consider how you will build your market, and as you scale this will remain at the forefront of all that you need to do.
BJSS and Northcoders to offer Birmingham SMEs 10 fully-funded digital skills programmes.
When you start a new business there are so many barriers that you need to overcome. The first barrier is validating your business idea and ensuring that it will be profitable, and that there’ll be a target market willing and able to buy from you.
Every brand thinks they can turn on the charm to impress the ladies, but the opposite is often true. While an enormous 89% of women control daily shopping, the overwhelming majority (a whopping 91%) feel advertisers simply don’t understand us. Shocking, I know.
The digital transformation is bringing significant benefits for firms of all sizes. From new revenue opportunities to reduced transaction costs to better access to information, digital technologies are boosting performance and profitability.
Here’s an interesting fact, companies founded by women bring higher returns from investment. According to a study by Boston Consulting Group, the return from each dollar invested in a ‘woman-led business’ is nearly twice as high, and the total revenue over a five-year period exceeds the earnings of male-run businesses by around 10%.
I would be lying if I said that raising capital as a female Founder is an easy process. Even those that make it look easy, have faced invisible barriers that aren’t present with their male counterparts. What I have learnt, however, is that having this knowledge – that I am a woman (and woman of colour) and that I am on the backfoot – simply doesn’t help me at all.
In the UK, the percentage of small businesses dominate the economy. Of all UK firms, 99% are considered small businesses and 60% of the workforce is employed by small business firms. Amazon has over 17,000 small business partners in London alone and these small businesses recorded over £970m sales just last year.
Before March 2020, catching ‘fresher’s flu’ was a right of passage for university students. Fast forward 18 months and students around the world stayed indoors to keep illness at bay. However, the pandemic has taught the education sector an important lesson – the value of selecting the right communication tools.
Your team will be at the core of your business and growing one that works for you and your business is probably one of the most important factors in building a successful business.
Europe’s largest Business Show is back for 2021, returning to London’s ExCeL on the 24th & 25th of November, helping small businesses grow and develop. The 43rd edition of the show will reveal the secrets of business adaptation, innovation and survival as we recover from the pandemic.
Spotting a gap in the market, Steph Desmond and Binky Felstead, decided to launch bloss – the home of parenting experts. bloss is on a mission to connect men, women and carers with some of the world’s most credible, trusted professionals at the touch of a button. We spoke to Steph to learn more about her journey and what bloss wants to achieve.
The Big Score, organised by Startups.be ScaleUps.eu in collaboration with VLAIO and Voka, welcomes 35 project leaders from international organisations who will present their operational challenges in full transparency to hundreds of impactful startups, who will be able to explain their technology live or remote. A unique format and a win-win where companies like AB InBev, Nestlé, Procter and Gamble, Toyota, Engie, Dow and Volvo can discover niche solutions that make their processes more climate friendly. And the startups? They can score the deal of a life time.
While you should be proud that your kid can speak fluently in your native language, learning a second language at an early age can open doors to many more opportunities.
Human Performance specialists Virti have launched an AI-powered feedback suite of tools designed to help businesses meaningfully engage with and learn from their employees.
Following on from the easing of national lockdown restrictions in April, Real Business Rescue have released their quarterly Business Distress Index for Q2 (April – June 2020), uncovering a post-pandemic health check on SMEs in the UK. You can view the full report here.
We spoke with Anjali Midha, an entrepreneur with a passion for media and analytics and the Founder and CEO of Diesel Labs. Diesel Labs is a content analytics company that addresses the toughest questions facing media companies today: what to produce and where to distribute and market it.
The future belongs to those who can tell their story. The founders of Lone Design Club Accelerates and 5 Stories are partnering to help fashion businesses build that future.
Placing a 30-second advert in the Super Bowl costs about £4 million. A billboard in Times Square might run you between £1-2 million for a month. Even placing a simple spread in a popular magazine will typically start in the tens of thousands.
