Let's face it, who wouldn't want to leave behind the conventional 9-5 office life and embark on a journey around the world while still managing to get their work done?

Many of those thinking about their own startup is afraid to tell anyone about it, reasoning this by the fact that a "million dollar" idea could be "borrowed" by others. In fact, I can reassure you, as most teams capable of implementing a startup idea have a lot to do already (because they have their own startups and their own business), they don't have time to implement someone else's borrowed idea. Big companies, on the other hand, would rather become your partners than steal an idea. After all, an idea by itself is worthless.

A company which provides prisoners with laptops they can use in their cells has won a King’s Award for Enterprise.

With the sun shining through the window on the Skyline stage at BrightonSEO, Jon Earnshaw from Pi Datametrics delivered an intriguing and engaging talk to delegates about the future of SEO by looking at how people actually go about searching. Perhaps most poignantly pointing to 'voice' as the future.

London based personal branding agency WOAW have announced the appointment of Freddie Paxton as their new CEO - taking over from Joe Binder, who founded the company.

Your startup’s value proposition is like its heartbeat. If it’s not clear and consistent, you risk an uncertain future.

The events of recent years have prompted many people to reflect on what they want from their personal and professional lives.

Yesterday I attended the launch of the “Business Without Blood Sports” event, by leading animal welfare charity, The League Against Cruel Sports, at the historic House of Parliament. I found out the hard way that you’re not allowed to take pictures of every pretty thing you see in this magnificent building.

SEON has released its latest ‘Global Cybercrime Report’, which highlights the varying dangers associated with cyber threats around the world.

Biodiversity data company, Pivotal, is announcing a £4.5 million seed round, led by Octopus Ventures, to help it transform the economics of biodiversity tracking and build the definitive platform to measure biodiversity at scale.

Gaussion, a UCL spinout that has developed new technology to allow ultrafast and safe battery charging, has raised £2.85 million in a seed investment round led by BGF and UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF).

Run by the Evening Standard and supported by Chrome OS, SME XPO is the UK’s leading event dedicated entirely to ambitious SME founders and decision makers who are looking to scale. 

With warmer weather on the way, parents across the UK will be thinking about how to keep their children safe in the sun. Enter: Solar Buddies – the world’s first child-friendly suncream applicator.

The product, created by Welsh mums Kelli and Laura, recently gained a huge new audience when it was successfully pitched in the Dragons’ Den. Here, we learn more about the idea and how the pair found success and bumps along the road.  

Tracxn, a global SaaS-based market intelligence platform, has released its Geo Quarterly Report:  UK Tech – Q1 2023. The report, based on Tracxn’s extensive database, provides insights into the UK Tech space.

Founders need to offer smart workplace benefits to win the talent war and attract Gen Z staff – the lifeblood of the start-up economy – new research has found. 

Esport athletes can use mental imaging techniques to enhance performance and achieve optimal mental and emotional states while competing.

Stress is inevitable in entrepreneurship; managing finances, handling uncertainty, and other pressures are parred for the course. Yet learning to manage stress is an important learning curve for any entrepreneur and eventually makes for an all-around better leader.

Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) has been a common way of accessing connectivity for some time. Across Britain, we’ve all seen the green metal cabinets dotted around our streets.

In the first of a four-part series, Startups Magazine has teamed up with Sam Perry, Founder of Ensemble, to look at how startups can leverage each other to survive the current challenges in the European startup funding arena. Hector Mason, General Partner at Episode 1, Co-Founder of Focal, Co-Host of Riding Unicorns and Jon Butterfield, Head of Platform at Speedinvest also comment.

UK inflation unexpectedly remained above 10% for a seventh consecutive period in March 2023 at 10.1%. This makes it more likely that the Bank of England will increase interest rates next month.