As coronavirus continues to spread, more people are being encouraged to work from home in the coming weeks and months. If this isn’t something you’re used to doing, the prospect probably invokes one of two feelings. Either you’ll be looking forward to a break from commuting and queuing for the kettle, or you’ll be horrified at the thought of enduring your own company all day, every day.

Today nearly 2 billion people do not have reliable access to clean water, and by 2030, according to the UN, that number will rise to half of the world’s population. Access to clean affordable drinking water represents probably our planets greatest resource issue.

An accompanying survey of 2,100 people also uncovered that over half of Britons would prefer to work for a startup than a large corporation, regardless of the risk. The research was undertaken by the team behind global affiliate network, in the wake of the launch of its Access programme, that allows startups and entrepreneurs to access the affiliate channel.

The Institute of Coding (IoC), a government-supported initiative designed to respond to the UK’s digital skills gap, recently hosted its second annual conference at the IET Savoy Place in London. At this two-day event, new research from the IoC and Deloitte was shared that provides powerful insights into the factors that motivate women to study and work in the digital sector.

According to a survey conducted by Holvi and YouGov of over 1,000 full time workers, sole traders, freelancers and small business owners, almost half (47%) of full-time employees would consider starting their own business.

For more than 25 years I’ve been helping new things come to life and scale from within the heart of a large corporate and more recently, working with startups and smaller companies to help them grow.

It’s openly recognised that environmental destruction is going to be devastating for 100s of millions of people globally and it's already showing its effects. Awareness of the moral implications of sustainability issues for current and future generations has increased dramatically, owing to the types of campaigning that’s occurred. However the commercial opportunity of this has yet to be realised by business

In 2018, I joined business mix as a COO and like many startups it’s been quite a journey. Since then I’ve been lucky to be part of a great team that’s driven the business to a global scale, accessing innovation from London, Singapore, Israel, India as well as across South East Asia.

The last 12 months has seen an unprecedented surge in the geopolitical urgency of the climate crisis. Greta Thunburg, Australian wildfires and Arctic warming has a created a tipping point in public perceptions of the climate crisis.

As a proud partner for Startups Magazine, Business Mix is an innovation consultancy based in Shoreditch in London and Singapore, and has supported the magazine for sometime now. 

China’s rapidly growing economy has gathered much interest about the practices and philosophies that support Chinese business. This intrigue is mainly derived from the West. The nature of globalisation for Chinese multinational companies (MNCs) has also significantly affected European economies and societies. In light of this, this piece intends to explore the Chinese concept of guanxi and how this can aid better business relations.

CerbAir offers complete Anti-Drone solutions to secure sensitive sites and events against malicious drone use. With a number of detection and counter-measure systems already installed around the World, the French leader in Anti-Drone systems announced the conclusion of a 5.5 million € round of financing.

UNLEASH, the largest and fastest growing global network of HR and technology decision makers, startups, visionaries, and disruptors, has announced the first-look at its Spring 2020 conference in London.

Disruptive, next-gen online booking tool partners with global TMC to unleash the benefits of best-in-class travel management for the SME market. taptrip, part of the Barclays Techstars Accelerator is currently the most disruptive name in online booking, has entered into a new partnership with the leading corporate travel and events business and pioneers of technology, the ATPI Group, which will roll out in the UK from March 2020, with Benelux, France, India and Asia set to follow later in the year.

For its forth edition, President and COO of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is set to land at Dublin Tech Summit (DTS) this year. The Summit which is taking place in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 from the 22nd-23rd April 2020 will bring over 10,000 attendees from over 70 countries and 200 high profile speakers to Dublin.

Founded in Singapore in 2017 by Magnus Grimeland and a team of Google, Spotify, MIT and Harvard alumni, Antler is a global startup generator and early stage VC that is building the next big wave of tech.

Lancashire-based Get Work, a service that generates local leads for tradespeople, has received a £100k loan from NPIF – BFS & MSIF Microfinance, a product managed by GC Business Finance & MSIF and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).

 

Global technology and media festival NewCo, has announced the return of its London event, which will take place from the 11-13th March across several city locations.

The Central Research Laboratory (CRL) has announced the launch of its 7th world leading accelerator programme, which celebrates five years supporting early growth stage product pioneers.

The average startup creates twice as many jobs as the average SME in our country. Nearly nine out of ten SMEs are sole traders, within startups that is only 1.4%