Teamwork involves people working together to complete a task or achieve a particular common goal. In any organisation, a team works to maximise effectiveness in the company and raise the morale, creativity, planning, efficiency, initiative as well as learning.
The Techwuman STEM Ambassador programme is designed to train those from the STEM industry to ‘give back’ by being role models allowing them to share their career pathways and knowledge.
Over 1,000 British tech startups have filed for administration, liquidation or dissolution since lockdown began, according to new research released today by Plexal and Beauhurst.
It’s tough as a founder on so many levels. As an investor in B2B startups, I’ve seen many of the same mistakes made – here are some thoughts on maybe trying to avoid some of the biggest pitfalls.
A new $60m venture capital fund led by an ex-Google executive and Silicon Valley venture capital firm veteran will invest in 120 early-stage startups across the MENA region amid an anticipated boom in tech post-COVID.
Coutts, the wealth manager and private bank, has released the findings of its inaugural Coutts UK Entrepreneur Index (CUEI), outlining the level of entrepreneurialism in the UK as well as the desires and barriers that they have faced when starting their business.
CyberShell provide comprehensive and understandable support and education of cyber-threats(Interactive application security testing-IAST) to software development team to prevent and mitigate cyber-threats. They give their clients confident and resilient in the digital age against cyber-attacks with securely develop products that reduce their risk of getting hacked with competitive advantage.
“The grass is always greener…”, there are many catchphrases that describe life and business, but they always seem to be in the future tense and suggest some sort of heroic journey.
For any startup founder one of the hardest stages of the whole journey is developing a product to the testing phase, and then finding out if what you created can achieve what you had envisaged, and if not what changes need to be made.
A certain male news anchor once said: “What the hell is diversity?” Little did he know that the woman who entered the room in the next six seconds would be the best news anchor he ever met. A lot has happened since the Sixties, Seventies, Eighties and Nineties and we as a society are better for it.
The last few months have been the most challenging period for many UK business leaders. The coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn have thrown the workplace out of kilter, requiring CEOs and senior leaders to be more present in every facet of the business.
As the Founder/CXO of a startup, your alternative title is CFFO, or Chief Fire Fighting Officer. You don’t have time to attend a one-day workshop to solve a current problem in your business, let alone read a white paper on the topic. You need quick reads that provide you with answers to your problems now – and that is the purpose of Startips.
Yorkshire-based, Pro Safety Management has launched a free phone consultation and 69-step Covid-19 Compliance Checker for businesses across a range of sectors.
I’m Jamie Martin and I’m an experienced Sales Trainer. Even more importantly I’m a Business Millennial, born between 1980 and 1994 and I’m a thought leader.
Landscape, a new review platform for startup founders to discover and find investment opportunities, has officially launched today. The community project, started by Founder Joe Perkins, provides transparent feedback from entrepreneurs on their experiences with European venture capital firms and accelerators. To date, Landscape has received almost 700 reviews in its beta, with 83 Verified Partners on the platform.
The first lesson to be drawn from 2020, and undoubtedly the biggest lesson, is that the future is unpredictable. All of us in our personal and business lives try to predict the future to some extent, as this is what enables us to lay plans for the future.
JAXJOX, the global fitness technology company known for its innovative workout equipment and platform, has announced that it has secured £7.7m in a Series A round of funding with investors Dowgate Capital Ltd. and entrepreneur Nigel Wray, bringing total funding raised to date £13m.
Over 60% of organisational change initiatives fail, but change itself isn’t the stumbling block. Change is common and natural, even inevitable. Seasons change, people change, mountain ranges change — yet successful change management remains a lofty, even insurmountable challenge for many organisations. Over 60% of organisations view change as something that should not be desired, something that should be dreaded; so many leaders within organisations fight hard to create sustainable/practicable practices, systems and functions with change being the last thing they desire.
Spoon Guru, the London-based AI powered food search and discovery technology startup, has announced that it has secured a Series A funding round with W23, the Venture Capital arm of Australia’s largest retailer, Woolworths Group.
In a year full of adversity and challenge, an amazing line up of finalists for The Best Business Women Awards have been announced for 2020. This is cause for celebration as most businesses have faced their most turbulent year yet.
