In this week’s guide, we look at how to manage your employees to ensure long term happiness and health, with performance management, sickness and absence management and incentive share schemes.
Mous use outlandish stunts and challenge the status quo in the best interests of their customers. Co-founder and CBO, Lucy Hutchinson, explains why.
LegalShield recently launched a consumer app, LegalDefence, that helps the average consumer combat their legal disputes in an affordable but effective way. The Oxford-based startup has been disrupting the industry tremendously since its launch.
What people require from their employers, managers, and colleagues, is different to what it was in past years. The days of having one job for life are long gone. In the highly competitive tech industry, hiring is but the first challenge – retaining and growing a sustainable team for the future is the holy ground.
Have you heard of ‘associative learning’? If not then, very simply, this is the basis upon which people mentally connect things together.
A survey of 200 startups and scale-ups – commissioned by Envestors in 2019 – has uncovered a number of misconceptions which are ultimately impacting the ability of companies to successfully raise funds using the crowdfunding model. Furthermore, the results show the approach – which hasn’t changed since its genesis in 2011 – is ripe for disruption.
Business is becoming ever-more personal. Today’s leading companies have human faces: to think of Facebook is to think of Mark Zuckerberg; to hear Amazon is to call to mind Jeff Bezos.
Startups gain valuable benefits and access through 4YFN, the official platform of emerging technology companies at MWC-Los Angeles.
There are seemingly hundreds of interpretations of marketing. Most have appeared only within the last decade, driven by the onset of digital marketing and its ever-sprawling complexity and fragmentation.
As readers of either my Mentor’s Perspective or Mentor’s Journal series will know, one of the most common themes that I come across is that of fundraising in all its guises.
Most of us would associate the phrase ‘fit for purpose’ with a product or service that we have seen or used, but that we do not think actually does what it is meant to do.
Once you have the paperwork in place and guidelines established, it’s time to start bringing staff on board. There are a huge range of different legal factors to consider when recruiting, not least the laws around equality and right to work, so this week, we look at recruitment, workers’ rights and business immigration.
When it comes to R&D Tax credits, a tax incentive designed to encourage companies to invest in R&D, businesses claim some of these credits back as a part of their R&D expenditure, which can be a process that turns into a bit of a nightmare.
‘More must be done to foster diversity in IP if we don’t want to wait 50 years to achieve gender parity in innovation’, says Joan Mill, Managing Director, EMEA at CPA Global.
This was one of those weeks that saw me meeting with business from every possible stage of growth from ‘enter stage left’ to being a massive player that is looking for interesting new arrivals.
Churn can take many forms – the dreaded email that’s never returned, or worse, the pre-emptive “we are dropping your service” note. But fear not, there are ways to respond to and work with churn which will help you scale and grow.
With Conflict Resolution Day taking place on Thursday 17th October Louise Hebborn, Commercial Partner at Stephensons Solicitors LLP, discusses business disputes and shareholder’s legal rights.
How many times have you heard this, “I have this great idea for a new product or service”. And how many times have you seen this person with the “great idea” actually do something? Well, this article will help you understand if the idea is a million-dollar idea or not.
Beauhurst, the provider of data on growing British companies, has released a report mapping out the UK’s ‘herd’ of unicorns. Coined in 2013 by Aileen Lee, Founder of Cowboy Ventures, the term ‘unicorn’ refers to a young, private company whose valuation has reached £1bn or more.
Security Matters, an Australian-listed Israeli tech solutions company with clients in the electronics, minerals, plastics, security, and agriculture industries, has a solution used in security and defence that can help reduce the volume of garments and textiles that are incinerated or landfilled every year.
