The business landscape has faced significant disruption in recent years. And the turbulence doesn’t seem to be settling down anytime soon.

It’s never been this expensive to get behind a wheel. But leasing via a salary sacrifice scheme could help.

Many start-up owners dream about the day when they get to introduce their business to a North American audience. However, that task can quickly become a nightmare if it’s not managed correctly.

The property market for landlords has transformed significantly over the last few years. 

There have been changes to property ownership and tenants’ rights in just the last few months, which are likely to affect how residential landlords in particular approach buying and managing a property. Many of these changes began early in 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while the initial view was that they were likely to be temporary, some have now been enacted permanently.

Working life has undergone significant changes in recent years. From the introduction of remote working to The Great Resignation, businesses have experienced a lot. Now, we’re experiencing a cost-of-living crisis and there are growing fears of potential recession. It seems we can’t catch a break.

German startup company, Voltfang, have come up with an innovative way of bringing reused car batteries to life – by using them as an electricity storage system.

Years ago, as a younger officer who had just joined the Singapore public service, I sat in a classroom listening to a senior civil servant share his philosophy for policy making. “Policy is implementation.” He said, “what’s on paper is only as good as what is actually practiced on the ground.” It sounded like good advice; I scribbled it in my notebook at the time and kept it at the back of my mind.

This is the second of a two-part series we at Colorintech have put together on the topic of “What Early-Stage VCs Think About Traction”.

At Colorintech, we work to support underrepresented people to get into tech and be successful in tech. One of the ways we do that is by supporting underrepresented tech founders by running an annual accelerator programme, but following four editions of this, we wanted to challenge ourselves to think about how we can evolve the model of founder support.

It’s widely documented that entrepreneurship is fraught with challenges. Even the most seasoned of entrepreneurs have tackled many obstacles over their career. It is the lessons that these challenges provide which set you up for future success. These learning opportunities can be even further enriched by consulting entrepreneurs who have overcome similar hurdles. 

Business owners have to juggle day-to-day operations, finances, marketing, managing a team, legal requirements, and much more. But the harsh reality is that, overnight, their efforts can all be made irrelevant.

New businesses are launched seemingly every minute, and every business leader believes they have stumbled on the next big thing. However, the Association of Business Executives has stated that approximately 660,000 new companies are registered in the UK every year, of these, 20% will not make it past their first year, rising to almost 60% within three years.

Walt Disney’s first animation company went bankrupt before he created his entertainment empire. August Horch was ousted from his company before going on to pioneer what would eventually become Audi. Bill Gates’ traffic data measuring company failed when many states began offering this service for free

Starting and running a successful business is the dream of many entrepreneurs. Violeta Martin, VP Commercial Sales, EMEA at DocuSign explores how deploying electronic signatures can offer a genuine opportunity for growth.

Learn about WebRTC – an open framework for the web that has become one of the most popular solutions for organising online voice and video communication.

In 1962, Arthur C Clarke wrote “magic’s just science we don’t understand yet”, and it’s a quote that bears striking relevancy today. Nearly every home in the developed world is filled with a menagerie of electronic gadgets allowing cheap, easy, and near-instantaneous communication with almost anyone, regardless of their global location.

Recent Gallup analysis shows fully engaged customers will give a 23% greater share of their wallet – providing a significant revenue opportunity for businesses to compete on quality of Customer Experience (CX).

Businesses are finally beginning to understand just how vital omnichannel customer service experiences are. A customer would head into a brick-and-mortar store to make a purchase. These are single-channel customers.

Technology is something that aids our progression forward, but can it be used as a force for good and point us in the right direction as we move to the future?

With TikTok becoming one of the most used social apps, but a lot of people still thinking it is aimed more for the younger generation, are businesses missing a trick not being on TikTok?