With a new year comes a new set of exciting opportunities, as well as challenges for every business - meeting set targets and goals, as well as improving organisational strategy and productivity. However, the mental wellbeing of employees and workforces shouldn't be left to the wayside.

As Amazon’s CTO since 2005, Werner Vogels has observed macro trends around the technology industry, giving him a unique perspective to distinguish substantive progress from mere fads. He recently published his views on what he sees in store in 2022 for cloud technology and the technology world in general.

As the UK moves away from lockdown restrictions, businesses can start making solid plans for growth; diversification can be the most efficient route to take as businesses who spot an opportunity to capture a broader market and are the ones who flourish.  

Over the past two years now, the world has been thrown in to disarray and disruption and one sector hit particularly hard is the events industry. I know, we have read a number of pieces highlighting the struggles and what this means, this isn’t another article like that.

For any business, you need market research or analysis to compete better. Market research simply gathers information from people to know the feasibility of a new product or service. With reliable market research, one can make viable decisions and take the right steps towards achieving their business goals.

We all know that the double-edged sword of Brexit and the pandemic has led many to despair - but for small businesses, the very real fear of collapse is evident and very troubling.

Lots of startups face something of a culture crisis in their early years. The problem with this is that you probably won’t find out that something is wrong until much later, by which point your imperfect culture will be endemic and difficult to change.

At GNR Solicitors we are eagerly anticipating the UK Government’s announcements in Spring 2022 in relation to the introduction and reform of visas targeting high-skilled migration.

At the start of the month, HMRC revealed that around half of the 12.2 million UK taxpayers who need to submit a tax return by the 31st January have yet to do so. With the deadline looming, over five million business owners are wondering how to make the process of filing their tax return as easy and efficient as possible. But, with recent research showing that one in ten entrepreneurs stores their essential financial documents in a drawer or shoebox, chances are the process of filling out your tax return is causing some stress.

Startups Magazine shares its top 10 healthtech startups from CES 2022. These are just 10 out of hundreds of innovative ideas shared at the exhibition.

For any modern, forward-thinking business having an effective strategy in place to store, manage and process data is vital. And the more an organisation can harness its power to then use this data strategy to its advantage, the more successful that business is likely to be.

Until a few years ago, it was quite common for us to treat ourselves to brand-new equipment and tick it off our wish list without thinking twice. However, times have changed, and we’ve all had to deal with some hardships along the way. Whether it is job instability or other personal difficulties, we’ve truly started to keep an eye on how purchases affect our finances.

At CES 2022, innovation within the healthcare industry was at the forefront of many conversations, seminars and exhibitors stands.

As Benjamin Franklin famously said, only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. And, as we approach the end of January, all attention turns to the latter. That’s right – it’s time for self-assessment tax returns to be compiled, reviewed and submitted. 

2022 is set to be a bit of a rollercoaster as we galvanise the promises made at COP26, navigate long term hybrid working and continue to deal with COVID-19. 

“Losers quit when they fail”, as they say, “and winners fail until they succeed.” But why risk success? You know the story. Founders brag about their failures but often aren’t even legally allowed to talk about their successes.

The influencer entrepreneur culture is all around us, and it’s exhausting. It expects us to build our businesses and leave a running commentary as we go, creating on-brand content to match each stage in our ‘glamourous’ entrepreneurial journeys. Once we start, it is easy to get into a cycle of chasing likes and prioritising our feed before our wellbeing, and even our businesses.

Scaling is everything. The majority of businesses have to try and do this without incurring extra costs, and it is how good they are at this process that can define the trajectory of most small to medium sized businesses.

Zorka.Agency marketing team together with SOLYANKA conducted “Startup Marketing Research: challenges and opportunities in digital promotion”.

The world is going digital and NFTs are a technology which can provide unique, infallible data for this digital world in industries beyond art. You might be wondering how, as a startup founder, you could take advantage of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)?