UK based Jasper SME Hub’s founder and leading SME empowerment advocate – Emmanuel Olujobi has committed to training 50,000 African businesses by 2025 in a bid to support the growth of the SME sector through the Hub. This he noted during the Hub's annual SMEFest, a gathering of entrepreneurs and industry stakeholders with the theme "Building To Scale”, held in Lagos, Nigeria recently.

PLATF9RM, Brighton & Hove’s most established independent coworking community, announces the return of Kickass Women with a new twist. Enter Kickass Collective.

Octopus Energy introduced a mass market vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tariff, named Octopus Power Pack, which assures complimentary charging for drivers, thereby accelerating the nation's transition to sustainable transport.

Accelerate Estonia, a government-backed innovation lab with a mandate to remove regulatory barriers for entrepreneurs, has partnered with Oxford-based consultancy Oxentia to extend its support to UK tech companies.

The pace at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced in the past few years has certainly got everyone talking about how it’s going to change the way we work. According to the World Economic Forum, it is projected that by 2025, the distribution of work will be evenly split between humans and machines.

I’d like you to cast your mind back to when you had that lightbulb moment of setting up your business. Then to the leap of faith you took to make the time and financial investment to get your company off the ground.

UK travellers will soon benefit from the ability to automatically reclaim VAT on overseas purchases via their smartphones, courtesy of a breakthrough in AI technology.

The sustainable mobility startup "Walk15" has secured a €1 million investment, marking its second investment in just three months. This health-focused startup, which connects over 640,000 users with 1,300 businesses and organisations globally, intends to use the new investment to spearhead its expansion into the German market. This month, "Walk15" inaugurated a new office in Berlin.

In the dynamic world of entrepreneurship, startups are constantly on the lookout for new avenues of growth and expansion. While established markets offer stability and familiarity, emerging markets represent a treasure trove of untapped opportunities.

Lynne Franks and Dorset based Lawyer Lucy Lafferty-Brown mark a significant milestone in the journey of women's empowerment with the launch of Grow Coin -  a new digital currency for women that will lead a new feminine driven economy.

Cherish PR, a Wilful Group company, announces it has chosen to support social impact app, SuperFi with its inaugural Communications Accelerator Programme, an initiative to help young innovators scale their businesses through powerful communications.

Soul Padel, an ambitious padel operator in the UK, has bolstered its attractiveness to investors by securing seed investment status. Located in North-West England and established by Mark Hewlett, a former executive in retail and healthcare, the company has gained preliminary approval for the HMRC Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS).

JumpCloud’s Q1 2024 SME IT Trends report indicates that in 2024, UK SMEs could be more vulnerable to cyber attacks than SMEs in other countries.

This September, Cambridge Tech Week (CTW24) will return to Cambridge, Europe’s largest tech cluster. The event is set to attract tech leaders, innovators, and investors from around the world to showcase Cambridge and the UK’s global lead in tech innovations and advancement.

A strategic plan and a business plan are two critical documents that play distinct but complementary roles in the success of any organisation. While they may share some similarities, such as outlining goals and objectives, they serve different purposes and are designed for different audiences. In this essay, we will explore the fundamental differences between a strategic plan and a business plan, delving into their respective components, functions, and importance.

Most founding management teams get going through a blend of funding from friends and family and good old boot-strapping. But as a high-growth company begins to prove that it has reached first base (let’s call that product-market fit), it will begin to appear on the radar of a broader range of investors.

In a recent episode of BBC's Dragons' Den, Kerbo Charge, an EV charging startup, has successfully secured investment from sustainability-focused angel investor Deborah Meaden.

Signal AI, a top-tier player in Reputation and Risk Intelligence, has acquired Social 360, a cutting-edge reputation intelligence firm with a global clientele in the USA, EMEA, and APAC.

Since 1998 private and under privacy laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), companies in the UK have been legally required to respond to Subject Access Requests, giving people the right to request all of the personal data that a business holds about them and to share this within 30 days of submitting the request (with some exceptions).

In Business, we always like to focus on the upside. Where is that big growth push coming from in Q1? What is our profitability looking like for this financial year? Whilst the upside is crucial to longevity, just as important for company survival is not neglecting the downside.