The life of an entrepreneur, especially in the initial stages of founding and growing a new company, is often marked by long, gruelling hours spent working alone. Though being your own boss is one of the main attractions to starting your own business, it is an inherently risky endeavour that can leave you making critical decisions alone, and ultimately shouldering a lot of responsibility.

This week, Startups Magazine spoke to Chris Sims, Managing Director, SoHo (Single/Small Office, Home Office) and Marketing at BT.

With so many businesses making a positive social impact on the world around us, Startups Magazine rounds up its top 10 Tech4Good startups of 2021.

Today, businesses are under pressure to navigate the fast-changing skills and digital landscape.

Global VC funding broke new ground in the first half of 2021, with a staggering $288bn invested worldwide.

With COP26 reinforcing the detrimental effects of climate change, mass engagement in sustainability is stronger than ever. To preserve an inhabitable climate, net zero must be achieved by 2050, businesses altering their operations accordingly is a contributor to this.

Starting a career as a freelancer can be rewarding. You’ll have a job with the flexibility to support a positive work-life balance. You may find it is a lucrative option, too. One report found 70% of freelancers earn more than their traditionally employed counterparts.

Over the last few years we have seen a big evolution of online communication and sales. The times when companies were sending cold emails to random receivers are long gone.

BixBio was founded in 2019 by James Ross and Tyronne McCrindle. The pair are from Cape Town, South Africa, and seek to address the massive underrepresentation of African data in global genetic datasets.

The new post-Brexit UK-EU trade relationship is having a big impact on companies across all sectors and localities, with new procedures, customs controls and added layers of bureaucracy rendering many business models unsustainable.

As world leaders converge on Glasgow for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (Cop26), the need for climate action has never been stronger.

The festive season is just around the corner, and many retailers are gearing up for the most important date in their calendar - Black Friday.

With Black Friday among us, phishing attacks are set to skyrocket, so here we consider why – and how – ecommerce startups should be prepared.

As of this past Autumn, all employees in the UK now have a right to request flexible working options from day one. As a business of any size, it’s now a necessity to consider your approach to flexible working.

It’s hard to believe that email - or electronic mail - wasn’t introduced until the early 1990s when the World Wide Web was first launched for widespread use. Since then it has become a vital communications tool for businesses and people across the globe

The reason I decided to write my book ‘Doing the Opposite’ was because I realised something quite extraordinary through my life experiences. I questioned why my latest business, Cloudfm Group had been so successful and grown from £1m to £70m in just four years.

In a startup, the CTO is involved in making important technical decisions and has a key role in the success of a project. CTO chooses the technologies needed to create a product and controls the entire development process.

Today’s business problems need the untapped potential of women-led enterprises which represent as much as £250bn of additional value for the UK economy.

The focus for many businesses throughout the pandemic has been on cashflow and liquidity - for some it has simply been a case of short-term survival. In some cases the the information distributed by directors will have a real bearing on their own remuneration or even employment. 

Once considered as a term for the next-gen of cars, the use of 'hybrid' is now more popularly used to describe the new way of working.