In December, Tesco stopped producing Christmas cards at a Chinese factory after Florence Widdicombe, a six-year-old girl from London, opened a box of cards and found a message inside.

I remember my first CEO role. God I was scared. Would my staff do as I asked? Who could go to for help? Was I expected to be omnipotent? Fortunately I had a great Chairman who had been there, got the T-shirt, and the scars.

As a Mentor, one of the things that I am often asked about is how to find reliable partners, and indeed who those partners should be. I recently overheard that very point when a lady was asking “who should I ask to help me and what exactly are the best roles for them to play?”

If we can learn anything from Great British Bake Off, it’s that nobody wants a soggy bottom. A half-baked idea must stay in the oven for an adequate time to rise to its full potential. The same thinking can be applied to the start of a new business or venture.

One of the very common themes that I come across with entrepreneurs and founders is that they are generally over confident. About everything! That goes from the valuation of their business to how quick and easy it will be to raise funding.

A self-made entrepreneur, starting his business from his room at University of Leeds while studying Cinema and Photography, Sam Stoffel is now the founder and CEO of matched betting platform, Profit Accumulator – a multi-million pound technology business. We spoke to Stoffel to learn more about his route from student to CEO.

Google for Startups has completed a number of cohorts now based around different areas in the startup world, some of the most recent ones including African and Women, but now the organisation has issued a call to startup founders from across the UK. Its new UK Immersion Cohort brings a 12 week programme designed to bring the best of Google and the London startup ecosystem to tech companies from all over the United Kingdom.

It's a funny thing, more often than not, I see companies seeking and getting investment that have a great idea, huge opportunity and a really interesting business plan.

Companies offer benefits to ensure a happy, motivated, and well-rested workforce. Still, more than half (52%) of American workers do not use all of their vacation days.

If you asked fifty young people in the UK to name a female entrepreneurial role model, only one would be able to answer. This statistic, which was among the findings of a new study into young peoples’ ambition by Entrepreneur First, isn’t just disappointing – it’s damaging.

There are many reasons why living in the UK makes life so much easier than living in most other countries. This is in our personal lives and wellbeing but also in our working lives, especially as an entrepreneur.

Mental health treatment specialists, Smart TMS, share their research into the effects of workplace stress, and explore the idea that the success and increased affluence that many entrepreneurs experience can actually be detrimental to their mental health and happiness.

Startups Magazine speaks to Lloyds Bank National Business Awards' 'New Entrepreneur of the Year' and equestrian-athleisure e-commerce tech startup Founder, Jordan McCabe, about her success and how she scaled her startup.

Start-Ups, Pivots and Pop-Ups: How to Succeed by Creating Your Own Business, written by two established entrepreneurs, Richard Hall and Rachel Bell, discusses the key disruptors of the “Start Up Revolution”.

Over the years that I have been working with startups and early-stage businesses I have overheard many different things.  The majority of these follow the normal concerns of any entrepreneur that is entering into uncharted waters for themselves but there have also been some comments that I have overheard that have been unique to the individual’s concerns or the setting in which it was said.

Happy New Year! As the newest (currently) columnist at Startups Magazine, I’m here to solve all your digital and marketing problems. Well. Not quite. 

Digi-Key to launch Startups Survival Guide magazine and serve as Platinum Sponsor for Hardware Massive’s CES startup event.

The value of investing in legal advice for your business cannot be underestimated. By receiving proper legal advice early on in the business life cycle, even when you’re a startup, you could potentially make costs savings and allow your business to operate more efficiently.

Today, we’re bombarded with so much tech based communication at work that we’re forgetting how to have effective ‘real life ‘conversations. This is having a huge impact on relationship building in the workplace.

Looking back and celebrating the six featured technology startups from each bi-monthly issue of Startups Magazine in 2019.