Ever since I was young, giving back to good causes has always been a passion of mine. Whether it was through volunteering for various charities after school hours or tutoring children from disadvantaged backgrounds as I got older, the desire to help others has remained constant.

White-label software tools are essentially proprietary apps that can be rebranded and customized by another company or agency to be used and promoted as their own.

Awareness months serve as an important reminder for organisations to pause and consider how their employee value proposition (EVP) is serving the communities that make up their workforce. LGBT+ History Month is a brilliant example of this.

Co-founder of PayPal, business partner of Elon Musk and billionaire serial entrepreneur, Peter Thiel said that the best problems to work on “are the ones nobody else even tries to solve.”

If you are an investor, Dutch fiscal policies are important considerations when bringing a company to the Netherlands to start a new venture.

...and what you can do to prevent it.

Scaling a business can be relentless and challenging.

As investors continue to search for ways to make informed decisions, machine learning is becoming an increasingly attractive option.

Another keynote speaker at ISE Barcelona 2023 was Stephen Nuttall, the head of sports partnerships at Facebook, who discussed the future of television broadcasting and how technology is changing the way we watch not just sports events, but live TV in general.

As your startup grows, standardising work becomes increasingly important.

That time of year has come and gone again: the January deadline.

The economy may be uncertain, but people’s desire to seek out new job opportunities remains strong.

I’ve never been captain current affairs when it comes to the sports world, but I do come from a city where news about The Lakers losing garners more media coverage than global warming.

As a serial entrepreneur with many failed business ventures in lucrative industries like technology, health, wellness, and beauty, I often wonder why I failed so many times.

I am a patent attorney from London, specialising in life science technology and startup companies.

Consumers have a wide range of technology available to them; regularly rotating through their computers, smartphones, tablets, and televisions - making multichannel marketing important for any brand.

Investment leads, whether they’re VCs or intermediaries, can use this challenging time right now to expedite their process of elimination for the next brilliant Founders to invest and believe in and Founders, if they’re tenacious and confident can use this time to surge forwards.

Customers are like elephants; they have amazing memories. This means they will never forget a truly wonderful or absolutely horrible service experience.

This time 15 years ago, companies were mainly talking about one thing: Millennials — and more specifically, how to deal with them in the workplace.

International teams bring valuable diversity, skill sets and perspectives to organizations, but curating collaboration activities on projects can be more difficult when team members are physically scattered around the globe.

Entrepreneurs are busy people who have a lot going on and multiple tasks to complete – after all, if setting up a business was easy, everyone would do it. However, this does not mean it’s okay for start-ups to put governance on the back burner.

With equity investors tightening their belts, pulling back on deploying capital into new companies, entrepreneurs may be tempted to turn to debt instead of equity. However, debt financing is no silver bullet and should be treated with caution.

With a busy and challenging year ahead, it may be easy to assume that upskilling should be put on the backburner thanks to the associated cost and time involved. However, the reality is quite the opposite.

In light of dynamic economic uncertainty and turmoil, there’s no doubt that it is an increasingly challenging time for businesses. To stay one step ahead, business leaders must focus on investing in curating a workforce equipped that have the skills to address future challenges.

In not-so-distant memory, the Metaverse was a nebulous concept – intangible and deemed a craze which would be little more than a flash in the pan. But there has been a sharp U-turn in this school of thought. The Metaverse has very much shifted from just a concept to an everyday reality. 

After two years of cancelled Christmases, much was riding on the 2022 festive season as a saving grace for many retailers — only for it to disappoint.

Once the preserve of large organisations and specialists, audiovisual (AV) technology is rapidly becoming something that few growing businesses can do without.

When I burp, I get asked to leave the room. When cows burp, the planet explodes…or at least that's what they tell me.

With the rise of digital transformation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) must quickly adapt their products and services to meet customers' changing needs and market dynamics.

Start-up founders are always being told to keep an eye on their data and analytics and build them as quickly as possible, yet often start-ups are not fully aware of the intricacies of analytics and data and make the wrong choices.

The spending power of Generation Z – those born between the mid-90s and early-2010s – is on the rise.

The successful 90 Day Finn programme from Helsinki is back for the third year running, filled with even more ambition and activity than ever before.

It's now less than three years until the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is switched off in the UK, which means businesses must switch to digital now.

We all know the importance of communication with our customers. But effective communication is easier said than done.

Bill Gates reads for 3 hours a day.

The term PLG (product-led growth) has been gradually gaining popularity over the past few years, to a large extent thanks to the success of companies such as Slack, Dropbox, Calendly, Miro and ClickUp.

AI platforms are vital in stopping SMEs from lagging behind in terms of technological advancements and are vital to ensuring the future of many of these companies, according to new research from emlyon business school.

In the not too distant past, one English pound was two American dollars. As you can imagine, coming from America to the UK wasn’t very kind to the wallet.

This Data Privacy week, we thought it important to highlight the security risks of the work-from-home phenomenon.

Startup businesses seem to have a never-ending list of objectives, policies and campaigns to consider.

In the midst of cold, dark nights, the post-Christmas lull and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, employers are likely facing a less than upbeat workforce. Whilst many companies will be discussing and even running ‘Blue Monday’ promotions, to mark what is apparently the ‘most depressing day of the year’, Stacey Lowman, head of financial wellbeing at Claro Wellbeing, said, “employers must make a genuine effort to support staff with wellbeing, boost morale, and avoid tokenism."

After the festive season, the long, dark days of January can leave us feeling low and many people struggle with the post-holiday slump. This is particularly true amid global events that are out of our control but impact our daily lives.

The current cost of living crisis is having a global impact, with Covid and events like the war in Ukraine playing a significant role.

The search for intelligent and actionable data.

It’s well-known that the third Monday in January is called “Blue Monday”. Supposedly the most depressing day of the year, this theory has been broadly debunked and has received criticism for trivialising mental health. Danni Rush, COO of Virgin Incentives, Virgin Experience Days and Virgin Experience Gifts discusses.

Long gone are the days of trying to squeeze conversation out of AOL’s Instant Messenger robot, SmarterChild.

A day in the life of a digital marketing agency involves a smorgasbord of PR and digital marketing campaigns, supporting a variety of clients at different funding stages, levels of maturity and resources.

With the workspace becoming remote and technology advancing rapidly, one venture that has boomed is Virtual Assistance.

Over the past few years, the startup ecosystem in London has grown faster than ever and now London is known as the best place for startups.

Building a culture of trust is an essential element of running a business, and prioritising the needs of teams is key to establishing this.

Charles Darwin famously stated that the species best able to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself is the one most likely to survive.

The year 2022 was by far the most eventful year for the crypto market.

The term PLG (product-led growth) has been gradually gaining popularity over the past few years, to a large extent thanks to the success of companies such as Slack, Dropbox, Calendly, Miro and ClickUp.

When expanding your start-up business, a key phase will be recruiting the right individuals who fit your organisational culture and ambitions. 

2022 – the year the monarchy changed, we lost two prime ministers and the UK experienced the battering of three major storms in just one week.

Menopausal women are the fastest growing demographic in the workforce and 8 out of 10 menopausal women are in work.

If our experience of the 2020s so far has taught us anything, it’s that the future is hard to predict.

According to the Business Statistics bulletin, there were 810,316 new start-up businesses launched in 2021 – an increase of 21.8% compared to 2019 and the highest number of launches in one year on record.

Venture capital has a long way to go when it comes to diversity.

Many of us have once picked up a new musical instrument with great fervour only to give up not much later.

Most brands struggle with getting it right when it comes to marketing. It takes time and effort for marketing to be effective. 

The metaverse is being hailed as the dawn of a new era of technology.

Miguel Fernandez, CEO and Co-Founder of Capchase looks to the challenging year ahead and some simple measures startups can take to build resilience. We’ve all seen the headlines. That tech is bracing itself for a challenging year. From gaming to green tech, fledging startups to billion-dollar global businesses – it would appear that most tech sectors will feel the pinch of recession. But that is not to say all is lost. Far from it.

Employers have a responsibility to support their employees’ mental health. In previous decades, businesses did not openly discuss employees' mental health when assessing the wellbeing of their staff. Fortunately, workplace mental health support is rising in importance, although there is still a long way to go.

The business world has started to return to normal in 2022 post-pandemic but covid’s legacy lives on with its effects on business still being felt.

Starting a new business is an exciting venture, but unfortunately it's not always successful.

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”  ― Maria Montessori

For someone of the younger generation, it’s hard to grasp that it wasn’t that long ago when women hardly had any rights at all.

From an evolving metaverse, Web 3.0 and immersive virtual reality, is 2023 about to level up ‘the new normal’ for businesses? Could we step into a world that we never imagined would ever be our ‘normal’?

A new analysis from Bupa UK shows that more employees are turning to the internet to find their next sick day excuse.

While cybersecurity might feel like just one item down a list of priorities for a startup, it should be viewed in the context of a world of escalating online threats.

Despite small businesses facing a myriad of challenges- inflation, a looming recession, increased rental costs, and much more- small business owners remain optimistic about the future. 

According to the Confidence Index 2022 by CWJobs, 41% of companies planned to make better use of recruitment technology in 2022. With recruitment up 66% in 2022 compared to the previous year, it’s no surprise the industry is seeking ways to adapt.

Costs of AI/ML: How expensive is it to develop and maintain AI solutions?

Gen Z’ers are emerging wonderfully into the workforce at a time of major economic upheaval post pandemic, and unlike those who have gone before them, they’re pushing harder and louder for different working conditions and standards that fit their ideology of the workplace of the future (regardless of how I try to push back with ‘back in my day…’). 

Today, digital marketers are facing huge challenges, and not only from current cookie tracking restrictions.

The truth is, unfortunately, that most people don’t like their work

There’s a myth in the world of startups that investors only have one thing on their minds.

It’s hard not to get wrapped up in the excitement of new technology. There’s no worse feeling  than missing out on the fun (not to mention the profits) of the latest phenomenon because you’re late to the party.

Quite a foggy view of the horizon, eh? So much for the holiday spirit.

If the time has come for you to launch your first startup business, you may not be entirely sure as to what legal aspects should be in place to ensure that your business is both legally compliant and on a sound footing to achieve your objectives.

Web scraping is revolutionizing academic and professional research by enabling the collection of big data.  Advanced collection practices allow higher levels of data extraction at faster rates, enabling new research opportunities in healthcare, finance, ecology, politics, and economics.

There are lots of reasons you might need to send an unusual-sized item; you could be selling it or sending it as a gift for a loved one. Whether these are large or long or just plain weird items, these types of parcels might require some special attention during the shipping process.

Nick Denning, CEO Policy Monitor, looks at the risks and business impacts of shocking statistics showing a lack of basic security skills within UK SMEs.

Kunal and I have been friends since we were 13 years old having gone to the same secondary school in Kent.

From the outset of business operations every employer should be aware that maintaining a safe and happy workplace is essential. It is not only important for the wellbeing of staff but for both the productivity and efficiency of the entire company. 

Understand the new business travel landscape

Wellbeing and mental health have become defining issues of our generation, as stigma surrounding conversations around mental illness is tackled and more people speak up about their experiences.

The recent Bank of England interest rate hike to 3% has certainly put a dampener on cheap lending but as startups seek a path through the myriad of economic uncertainty, the additional factor to consider is the high likelihood that if new finance is needed, the business founder or directors will need to sign personal guarantees.

Brand value or equity is not built on backlinks. It is created by communicating a clear understanding of what a company stands for, its core offering and how it is differentiated. Public relations (PR) supports this effort.

As Christmas looms, it’s nearly time to unwind. As kids, this time of year is centred around play; we all have vivid memories of eyeing up toys in shops throughout December, spending the holidays playing games and letting our imaginations run wild.

Compassion, resilience, self-awareness, and belief are all characteristics of a successful entrepreneur. Jaz Broughton is on a mission to empower 10,000 to follow their goals, and realise that ambition is not a dirty word, and being a high achiever isn’t a bad thing.

2022 was a year for the history books - the impact of Roe v. Wade being overturned will be felt for years to come in and outside of the US. As we head into 2023, Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Co-Founder and co-CEO of Natural Cycles, shares her thoughts on the short-term impacts of how the decision will impact the women’s health industry over the next year, as well as other predictions for the women’s health space in 2023.

You’ve heard people talk about it. Marketing experts write books about it. Business empires are built upon this foundation; be different.

Many leaders are currently contending with a motivational crisis among teams, with many people feeling weary and apathetic at work.

Three startups venturing into the field of women’s hygiene and health were awarded funding at a first of its kind co-creation challenge last month.

The business environment is constantly in a state of flux. It regularly experiences changes in costs, product demand, customer preferences, regulations, ease of cross-border shipment, the viability of different transportation modes, and more. 

As a startup founder, you’ve grown into a position that’s exciting, but can also be quite lonesome. It’s important to have good advisors, but often those within the business have an agenda that doesn’t align with your own. This is where an executive coach can be helpful, offering an unbiased, impartial view.

Whether it be your personal life, your career, or relationships these two components are the ultimate Key to achieving true success.