The influencer entrepreneur culture is all around us, and it’s exhausting. It expects us to build our businesses and leave a running commentary as we go, creating on-brand content to match each stage in our ‘glamourous’ entrepreneurial journeys. Once we start, it is easy to get into a cycle of chasing likes and prioritising our feed before our wellbeing, and even our businesses.

British smart home systems installer BOXT accelerates expansion plans after raising £20 million in a fresh round of funding.

Led by Octopus Ventures, the funds will be used to further provide ETF issuers with access to regulated crypto index products

Flexa, a platform for showcasing and discovering verified flexible companies, has revealed the top 100 most flexible companies to work for in 2022. 

In a move that reaffirms the company’s global reach, virtual IBAN and corporate account provider, Monneo, is delighted to announce the launch of its service in Brazil as part of its plans to serve customers who require payment solutions in Latin America.

The world is going digital and NFTs are a technology which can provide unique, infallible data for this digital world in industries beyond art. You might be wondering how, as a startup founder, you could take advantage of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)?

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that it reached the $100m in annual recurring revenue mark in December 2021, cementing its status as a unicorn.

Consumer data overwhelmingly points towards the importance of social media to grow an eCommerce business. If you look at the studies, over four billion people on Earth are 'active' social media users.

Health to U (H2U) Corporation, a startup in connected healthcare technology and provider of health and wellbeing digital health platforms, is ringing in the New Year by announcing the close of an $8m round of funding, led by SHARP and Foxconn Technology. 

Doji, the ‘next-generation’ marketplace that enables consumers to buy and sell used mobile phones, has executed a successful launch following an impressive $3.8m in seed funding.

More than 1.6 billion tons of food are wasted every year. 40% of the waste occurs at the beginning of the value chain. This causes economic losses of $660 billion in the food industry. 

Connecting the dots between your marketing activities and the rest of your business can change your perception about marketing. Understanding that marketing influences all areas of your business is the key to planning effective marketing activities. 

When speaking to businesses we often hear the phrase, ‘we just use word of mouth’ when people describe how they promote their company. This is amazing! But is it more than just ‘word of mouth’?

Workplace wellness has come under the spotlight in the last few years. Now, a vast number of people are looking beyond the traditional methods of coping with stress and embracing other ways of relaxing, unwinding, and recovering from intense pressure.

The launch of the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) in 2012 was a game changer for startups across the UK. Launching a company from the ground up is a difficult endeavour but the new tax benefits, which encouraged investment in small and potentially riskier enterprises, were a boon for investors and business owners alike.

Three of Scotland’s most innovative SMEs have secured a global audience spot at the CAN DO Innovation Summit after entering a competition to appear on the events #SMEstage.

I have been founding businesses for over 35 years and over that time I have managed to make almost all the mistakes possible when launching a startup. In the last 10 years I’ve also been involved in mentoring startups in various universities, business schools and incubators. It is clear that founders are still making many obvious mistakes: they continue to do the things they enjoy about a starting a business, rather than the things they need to do to make it successful.

It’s reasonable to say that many of us anticipated 2021 to be a year of recovery. If 2020 was the year that forced us to reset, 2021 has been the year to start again, re-strategise and grow.

It's hard not to feel disappointed by the reintroduction of roaming charges from a barrage of UK mobile network operators (MNOs). For the average customer, the charges likely mean one less Cornetto around the pool. However, businesses gearing up for international expansion may face more significant consequences.

2021 was one for the history books. It’s a year that saw entire workforces shift and adapt to remote working models, transform their product offering and make decisions based on simply staying afloat.