Data from the Intuit QuickBooks Late Payments Bulletin1 reveals that the ongoing issue of late payments among small businesses is persisting, hitting small businesses’ cashflow at a time when the cost-of-living crisis is intensifying.

Women’s Business Club will host its 10th annual conference and awards in Cheltenham on the 5th of October. The aim of the event is to inspire, empower and celebrate women in business whether they are starting out on their journey, are already established SME businesswomen or are employed women building a career.

There is a concept in the patent and the IP world which has been available for use for approximately a decade now and should be well known and used: Virtual Patent Marking (VPM) programmes. 

From October 2022, Residency will be organising monthly pop-ups at its Islington Square site in North London.

Fifteen new tech startups will be joining the Exchange scheme with plans to scale, grow and raise funds over the next six months, with the support of the startup programme and its partners.

The happiest people in the world come from the Nordics, so it’s only natural they’ve cracked the code when it comes to the happiness of the elderly!

Although digital transactions have existed for several years, the pandemic prompted a surge in alternative and innovative payment methods. Not only was this out of convenience, as businesses were closed and online shopping was the only substitute, but for hygiene reasons and consumer safety.

Flexible workspace provider LABS and Camden Council announce that a second group of local entrepreneurs will be provided fully funded workspace to help support the growth of their businesses.

As one of the fastest-growing industries in the UK, vacancies in the tech space are booming: companies and government programmes are racing to fill the digital skills gap.

UK small businesses are navigating slowing sales growth, increasing payment waiting times and persistently soft jobs results, according to the latest data from Xero, the global small business platform.

Founded in 2012, Gousto, is a UK recipe box provider delivering eight million meals per month. Initially set up with the idea of reducing food waste, over time the company has expanded its definition of sustainability to include areas such as packaging, carbon emissions, and healthy outcomes, with an overarching goal for every meal to leave the world better off. 

thirdweb announces its Series A led by Haun Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Shopify, Polygon, Protocol Labs, Shrug VC, Joseph Lacob and other industry leaders.

Home entertainment and hospitality platform, HOMETAINMENT, has announced it has raised nearly £400,000 in funding through a crowdfunding campaign and is set to scale in London and abroad.

Following our last article, we looked at how brand values play a part in building brand culture. We looked at this from a deeper brand purpose perspective.

Leading European PropTech venture capital firm, Round Hill Ventures, backed by Round Hill Capital, is investing in German PropTech startup, Erste Hausverwaltung, to help sustain growth in the property management platform which has doubled in size over the past year. The funding will be used to develop new technology software and solutions for German property managers.

As part of its Global Youth Initiative, Nestlé have launched the Nestlé Youth Entrepreneurship Platform (YEP), a digital platform for young innovators and entrepreneurs who want to learn new knowledge and skills, test an idea or grow their businesses, in areas ranging from food science and technology to the development of products and services – including regenerative agriculture and sustainable packaging.

A quick Google search of the renowned buzzword ‘customer experience’ returns over 1.5 billion results. That’s 104 times more than the population of Europe.

More than half of Brits admit they get frustrated if they have to wait more than five hours for a response from a brand’s customer service, highlighting the demand for an always-on culture.

Right now competitor research within the FinTech and Finance industry is hard.

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.