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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Lot traceability software is a system that helps businesses track the movement of products through the supply chain. This information can be used for various things. There are a lot of benefits of lot traceability and the biggest ones will be discussed in this article.

Despite challenging and uncertain times in the form of political and economic instability, entrepreneurs launch new businesses every day. Fortune favours the bold, right? So, where there’s uncertainty lies opportunity.

With gas prices soaring and an increasing drive for sustainability across the UK, electric cars have never made more sense. Yet figures show that despite electric car sales increasing, the market still has plenty of room to grow – and could contribute far more to efforts to decarbonise.

The internet of things, or IoT, is a system of interconnected computational devices and digital machines that can share data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.