No business owner should expect a completely smooth path to success – especially not when it comes to handling people on a daily basis.

It may not come as a surprise but nevertheless, it’s somewhat depressing to know that the level of trust people have for leadership remains low.

In this week’s guide, we look at how to manage your employees to ensure long term happiness and health, with performance management, sickness and absence management and incentive share schemes.

Mous use outlandish stunts and challenge the status quo in the best interests of their customers. Co-founder and CBO, Lucy Hutchinson, explains why.

Startups gain valuable benefits and access through 4YFN, the official platform of emerging technology companies at MWC-Los Angeles.

Business is becoming ever-more personal. Today’s leading companies have human faces: to think of Facebook is to think of Mark Zuckerberg; to hear Amazon is to call to mind Jeff Bezos.

There are seemingly hundreds of interpretations of marketing. Most have appeared only within the last decade, driven by the onset of digital marketing and its ever-sprawling complexity and fragmentation.

Once you have the paperwork in place and guidelines established, it’s time to start bringing staff on board. There are a huge range of different legal factors to consider when recruiting, not least the laws around equality and right to work, so this week, we look at recruitment, workers’ rights and business immigration.

‘More must be done to foster diversity in IP if we don’t want to wait 50 years to achieve gender parity in innovation’, says Joan Mill, Managing Director, EMEA at CPA Global.

How many times have you heard this, “I have this great idea for a new product or service”. And how many times have you seen this person with the “great idea” actually do something? Well, this article will help you understand if the idea is a million-dollar idea or not. 

With Conflict Resolution Day taking place on Thursday 17th October Louise Hebborn, Commercial Partner at Stephensons Solicitors LLP, discusses business disputes and shareholder’s legal rights.

Beauhurst, the provider of data on growing British companies, has released a report mapping out the UK’s ‘herd’ of unicorns. Coined in 2013 by Aileen Lee, Founder of Cowboy Ventures, the term 'unicorn' refers to a young, private company whose valuation has reached £1bn or more.

Security Matters, an Australian-listed Israeli tech solutions company with clients in the electronics, minerals, plastics, security, and agriculture industries, has a solution used in security and defence that can help reduce the volume of garments and textiles that are incinerated or landfilled every year.

It is one of the biggest challenges for any small e-commerce startup. How do they find an operating model that supports dynamic growth.

We are currently riding the crest of a wave for female representation in the startup community. The past decade has seen more female-founded startups emerging, and more enjoying unprecedented success at the very highest level.

“We can no longer continue to operate in this linear B2B / B2C world when it comes to business. People buy people and all relationships are human to human,” Sallee Poinsette-Nash.

The typical anatomy of a sales team in a modern tech company is that of Sales Development Representative (SDR) as the front line sales person. The 'warmed-up' lead then gets handed over to a more senior AE (Account Executive) to close.