ayoba – a communication platform and 'super-app' in Africa and small business software company BaseKit, have announced a new partnership to help democratise tech and kick start the dreams of entrepreneurs across Africa.

Have you ever wondered about the secret sauce behind successful SEO strategies? Well, I did. After spending more than a decade in the trenches of digital marketing, I stumbled upon the crucial ingredient: author authority. Let me explain why it's worth more than its weight in gold.

The Scale-Up Institute estimates that the UK's 34,000 scaleups contribute £1.2 million in turnover and employ 3 million+ people, making these businesses incredibly important for our economy. But as a startup transitions to a scaleup, its brand and business become increasingly visible, so knowing how to behave and communicate is integral to keeping the business operating and thriving.

Santander is offering early-stage startups across the UK the opportunity to win up to £25,000 equity-free funding and business support through the Santander X UK Awards 2023.

Caro Syson, entrepreneur, business coach and founder of Pocket PA, shares her insights on how to kick-start a successful business with the St. James’s Place Financial Adviser Academy

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I will not be the first to tell you how things are for startups. The rising interest and inflation rates and the turbulent geopolitical situation are pressing, and the business environment cannot help but feel it already.

Debt funding can be a crucial form of growth financing for start-ups and scale-ups, many founders do not consider it as an option when raising capital. Yet with the right product – and often when combined with equity investment – debt funding can help supercharge a promising company’s growth opportunities, taking them from startup to a market leader.

It has been announced that two new Dragons will be joining Dragon’s Den in the upcoming series.

Elon Musk: billionaire entrepreneur, Tesla CEO, SpaceX CEO, Twitter Owner, and now Owner of newly launched AI startup, xAI.

We've all heard the headlines that Zuckerberg's new social media channel spells the end of Twitter. That the further monopolisation of Meta will provide even greater opportunities for micro-personalisation. That it also brings a new host of data privacy concerns with it too.

The Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) has opened applications for the 2024 cohort of its award-winning TechX Accelerator programme. Clean energy startups from around the world can now apply for a place on the programme and a share of the £1.2 million grant funding available (up to £100,000 for each startup).

Many of the best, most innovative, disruptive, creative, successful companies are founded and run by people who are really good at what they do. People who have spent a long time honing their craft and becoming the ‘expert’ in their field.

Businesses within nearly every industry are already reaping the benefits of strategic automation and, increasingly, we are seeing the public sector follow in the footsteps of their private sector counterparts.

With fear-mongering stories appearing in the news, on almost a daily basis, you could be mistaken for thinking it’s an easy job to get your AI solutions communicated to the media. The danger is right now the media is saturated with news on artificial intelligence, both negative and positive, with the former dominating the last few weeks.