Series

A Business Millennial

A Business Millennial is your go-to guide for navigating modern entrepreneurship – covering essential strategies for negotiating in today’s competitive market, understanding what customers really want, and mastering the art of selling to stay visible and relevant in a rapidly changing business world.

Articles in the series: 3

Beyond The Numbers

Beyond The Numbers is a practical series on the financial side of startup growth. Covering resilience, funding, risk awareness and the common mistakes that derail new businesses, it offers founders clear, grounded advice for making smarter decisions and building stronger companies.

Articles in the series: 4

Diversity Disrupted: challenging outdated narratives

Diversity Disrupted: challenging outdated narratives is an editorial series that confronts outdated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) narratives holding back today’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Through thought leadership articles, the series dismantles tokenism, unconscious bias, and systemic barriers — spotlighting underrepresented founders, inclusive leadership, and intersectionality in the startup world.

Articles in the series: 6

Dublin Tech Summit

Dublin Tech Summit is one of Europe’s most influential technology conferences, bringing together world-class innovators, disruptive startups, and global tech leaders in the heart of Ireland’s thriving Silicon Docks ecosystem. From artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to fintech, sustainability, and digital transformation, the summit serves as a premier platform for cutting-edge keynotes, investor networking, and cross-industry collaboration. As a catalyst for entrepreneurship and emerging technology, Dublin Tech Summit connects visionary founders, C-suite executives, and venture capitalists shaping the future of the global tech landscape.

Articles in the series: 6

Everyday I'm hustling

Everyday I’m Hustling is a bold editorial series that pushes back against the anti-hustle narrative, championing the entrepreneurial grind, relentless work ethic, and founder-driven ambition that turns startup dreams into scalable business success. The series celebrates grit, resilience, and the side hustle mentality that fuels innovation, revenue growth, and long-term wealth creation.

Articles in the series: 2

Exiting your Business

Startups Magazine’s Exiting Your Business series guides entrepreneurs through every stage of leaving their company, from building with a sale in mind from day one, to navigating tax-efficient exit strategies, to thriving emotionally and financially in the aftermath. The series takes a holistic approach — covering not just the practical and legal mechanics of a sale, but also the psychological challenges founders often face post-exit, such as loss of identity, purpose, and routine.

Articles in the series: 3

Founder Forward

Founder Forward is a practical, founder-first series for entrepreneurs who want to build and scale without sacrificing their wellbeing, clarity, or leadership identity — covering everything from energy management and decision fatigue to hiring strategy and investor communication. It’s an honest, high-impact guide for the modern founder who understands that protecting their own performance is just as critical as growing the business.

Articles in the series: 9

Funding the wonderful

Funding the Wonderful is a series that showcases startups raising on the Crowdcube platform — spotlighting the trends, milestones, and companies shaping the future of equity crowdfunding. From tracking the UK’s unicorn landscape and record-breaking raises to profiling the rise of digital banking and the boom in robotics and AI, the series blends data-driven insight with inspiring founder stories.

Articles in the series: 6

Getting ahead, staying ahead, and not losing your head

Getting Ahead, Staying Ahead, and Not Losing Your Head is a series for entrepreneurs navigating turbulent times — helping founders maintain clarity, resilience, and momentum when conditions are at their most unpredictable. From reframing crisis as opportunity to tackling the very human challenge of staying motivated, the series balances bold strategic thinking with an honest, introspective tone.

Articles in the series: 4

Getting funding to scale in 2023

Getting Funding to Scale in 2023 is a Startups Magazine article series designed to guide early-stage founders through the complexities of raising finance, exploring in detail both how to raise capital and where to source it from, while emphasising why choosing the right investor at the right time is crucial. Written against the backdrop of a particularly challenging fundraising environment, the series acknowledges that 2023 brought heightened caution from investors and lower valuations in many sectors, making investment readiness and thorough preparation more important than ever for founders seeking to scale.

Articles in the series: 9

Going Global

Going Global is a Startups Magazine article series offering a practical, candid guide for founders looking to scale their businesses across international markets, with a core emphasis on the human and operational foundations that make or break an expansion. The series addresses the full spectrum of cross-border challenges — from hiring people with the right adaptability and cultural fluency, to navigating often-overlooked legal and compliance landmines such as employment law, tax registration, data sovereignty, and contract localisation in each new market.

Articles in the series: 2

Here's looking at your leadership

Here’s Looking at Your Leadership is a Startups Magazine series by people development consultants The Hustle House, which takes a fresh, funny, and practical look at how to lead yourself, your team, and your business brilliantly. Each article uses a beloved film or pop culture reference as its creative lens — from Jerry Maguire and Dirty Dancing to Toy Story and Forrest Gump — to explore a different dimension of leadership in a way that is as entertaining as it is genuinely useful for founders and managers.

Articles in the series: 7

Innovation Insights

Innovation Insights is a Startups Magazine column written by Ben Adams, R&D Claims Director at Claimer, who draws on his daily experience helping companies claim cash through the R&D tax credit scheme to explore what innovation truly means — and how startups can apply it to their businesses. The series takes a broad, curious view of innovation, tracing its history from as far back as 1548 — when the word itself was considered dangerous — through to the present day, sharing perspectives that centre on the value of curiosity, openness, and asking the questions no one else thinks to ask.

Articles in the series: 3

IWD 2021

Startups Magazine’s International Women’s Day 2021 series is a wide-ranging collection of features, profiles, and commentary published to mark the occasion, spanning everything from celebrating the magazine’s 20 most influential women of 2020 to highlighting the persistent inequalities — from the gender pay gap to female representation in tech — that still demand attention. The series takes both a historical and a contemporary lens, with pieces reflecting on inspiring female inventors across every decade since 1910, as well as interviews with founders and entrepreneurs actively reshaping their industries in the present day.

Articles in the series: 24

IWD 2022

Startups Magazine’s IWD 2022 series is a rich collection of features, profiles, and expert commentary built around the year’s #BreakTheBias theme, exploring the conscious and unconscious biases that continue to hold women back — in the workplace, in funding, and in the tech industry specifically. The series spans a wide range of angles, from celebrating female founders disrupting their industries and spotlighting women in senior tech leadership, to examining the persistent underrepresentation of women in venture capital and the challenges that remain despite growing momentum.

Articles in the series: 27

Keeping it in the startup community

Keeping It In The Startup Community is a four-part series from Startups Magazine, produced in partnership with Sam Perry, Founder of Ensemble, that explores how startups can leverage one another to navigate the challenges of the current European startup funding landscape. The series takes a practical look at the mutual benefits of startup-to-startup commerce, covering topics from accessing cost-saving tools and cutting-edge solutions to using shared networks to drive portfolio sales. It culminates by examining how startups buying from each other creates the foundation for deeper, longer-term collaborations – making the case that keeping spend within the startup community is a strategic advantage, not just a feel-good choice.

Articles in the series: 4

Kevins Top Tips

Kevin’s Top Tips is a Startups Magazine series offering practical, actionable guidance on the wide range of decisions and challenges that early-stage businesses face every day, covering everything from startup to scaleup. Written by Kevin Smith, a long-standing entrepreneur and mentor working with the UK’s largest fully funded Entrepreneur Accelerator, the series spans 15 articles tackling the full founder journey — from launching a business and building an advisory board, to fundraising, pitching, valuation, and navigating a recession. It serves as a comprehensive, founder-friendly handbook, delivering straightforward, experience-backed tips that are relevant regardless of sector or stage.

Articles in the series: 14

Lessons Learned from 2020

The series, launched in the final quarter of 2020, reflects on an extraordinary year that impacted every business around the world, exploring how its effects were so profound that the way business is done will never be the same again. Businesses of all sizes were pushed to scrutinise their models and adapt in every possible way to survive, with some pivoting entirely, while broader trends such as online sales, remote working, and video conferencing were rapidly accelerated. The series concludes that although the lessons of 2020 came at a significant cost, they are enormously valuable to carry forward, with the overarching message being that accepting risk, showing courage, and embracing change are essential qualities for any entrepreneur

Articles in the series: 10

Marketing Tips with Lion Spirit Media

The series centres on the principle that a marketing strategy is an essential road map for any business — from an established multinational to a fledgling startup — helping to define goals, maintain focus on objectives, and chart the steps needed to reach them. A strong emphasis is placed on content marketing as a foundational tool, with quality content highlighted as a cost-effective way to boost SEO, build brand awareness, attract customers, and showcase a startup’s value — using frameworks like the 5 W’s to keep efforts focused and consistent. The series also covers practical tactics such as using case studies to build trust and convert customers, and stresses that providing audiences with evidence of expertise is key to winning business.

Articles in the series: 6

Modern startup culture

The series explores how company culture and brand values have become a top priority in today’s workplace, driven by the recognition that keeping pace with shifts in work culture — not just market changes — is essential for long-term business success, with employee engagement emerging as a critical factor in driving quality and growth. A strong thread running through the series is the rise of ‘Tech for Good’, with startups increasingly harnessing innovation to tackle pressing social, environmental, and health challenges — from renewable energy apps to assistive technology for disabled people — pointing to an exciting and socially conscious direction for the startup ecosystem.

Articles in the series: 5

Nailing your mindset for digital transformation

This series opens with the argument that mindset matters just as much as technology itself when it comes to digital transformation, noting that while the pandemic pushed businesses to innovate faster, a risk-averse culture and excessive red tape remain significant barriers to embracing change. A central theme is the importance of employee buy-in, with the series urging leaders to involve staff at all levels — not just push change from the top — by communicating a clear roadmap, offering digital skills training, and building a corporate culture that treats innovation as a collective endeavour rather than the preserve of a select IT team.

Articles in the series: 3

Navigating Critical Change

This series cuts to the heart of what it really takes to lead a startup through the turbulent moments that define its future — from branding decisions and marketing strategy to the mindset shifts that separate surviving founders from thriving ones. Rather than offering generic advice, each instalment tackles the raw, often uncomfortable realities of entrepreneurship: cashflow trade-offs, the challenger gap, and what to do when everything goes sideways. Whether you’re rethinking your growth model or trying to make sense of bold thinking in practical terms, this series gives startup leaders the frameworks and honesty they need to navigate change with confidence.

Articles in the series: 10

Overheard at a startup...

Overheard at a startup… is a series launched in 2020 by Startups Magazine, inspired by real conversations overheard among early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs — particularly those transitioning from corporate employment to building their own businesses. The series uses candid, relatable questions as a springboard to deliver practical guidance, covering the full arc of the startup journey from initial ideation and market research through to growth, funding, and navigating crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Each article draws lessons from both the questions and the answers overheard, reflecting the everyday concerns of entrepreneurs entering uncharted waters.

Articles in the series: 26

Part of the Nova community

Part of the Nova Community covers everyday health, wellbeing, and lifestyle topics for Nova members. From hygiene habits and hydration tips to family caregiving and creating the perfect care pathway, find practical advice designed to help you and your loved ones thrive.

Articles in the series: 4

Podcast planning

Podcast Planning is a practical guide series covering everything you need to launch and record a successful company podcast. From the business case for starting a branded podcast to step-by-step recording tips, get the expert advice you need to go from idea to episode.

Articles in the series: 2

Protect your assets: The IP series

Protect Your Assets: The IP Series is an essential guide for business owners covering intellectual property protection, its importance for your business, and how to build a tailored IP strategy. Whether you’re new to IP or ready to formalise your approach, this series gives you the knowledge to safeguard your ideas, brand, and competitive edge.

Articles in the series: 3

Scale-up 2.0

Scale-up 2.0 is a sharp, practical series for ambitious business owners tackling the real challenges of scaling – from accelerating and managing rapid growth to navigating the tension between growth and profitability. Get actionable strategies to help your business scale smarter, not just faster.

Articles in the series: 2

Shipment and logistics for startups

Shipment and Logistics for Startups is a comprehensive series helping early-stage businesses navigate the complexities of modern logistics – from warehouse management and last-mile delivery to reverse logistics, supply chain disruption, and sustainable shipping practices. Whether you’re optimising customer experience, managing deliveries, or building a resilient logistics strategy, this series covers everything a startup needs to know.

Articles in the series: 10

Should startups focus on sales or building a brand?

Should Startups Focus on Sales or Building a Brand? is a two-part series exploring one of the most debated strategic questions facing early-stage businesses – whether to prioritise short-term revenue generation or long-term brand building. Get expert insight to help you strike the right balance and set your startup up for sustainable growth.

Articles in the series: 2

Smarter leadership with Sara Daw

Smarter leadership with Sara Daw is an expert-led series offering practical leadership insights for entrepreneurs and startup founders – from recognising the signs of burnout and overwork to exploring innovative growth solutions like the fractional C-suite model. Cut through the noise and lead your business with greater clarity, confidence, and strategic focus.

Articles in the series: 2

Starting a small business during a pandemic

Starting a small business during a pandemic is a practical series equipping entrepreneurs with financial and operational strategies to survive and adapt during periods of lockdown and economic uncertainty. From safeguarding your finances to crisis-proofing your business, get the crucial tips you need to keep your startup resilient.

Articles in the series: 2

Startips: Tips for Startup Challenges

Startips: Tips for Startup Challenges is a hands-on series tackling the most common hurdles facing early-stage businesses – from hiring the right team and mastering Cloud solutions to pivoting your business model and learning from real startup program success stories. Get bite-sized, actionable tips to help your startup overcome obstacles and scale with confidence.

Articles in the series: 5

Startup Summit

Startup Summit is a series documenting the journey of innovative tech and tech4good startups competing for a £60k prize – spotlighting semifinalists and finalists including Konglomerate Games, CyberShell, Frog System, and more. Follow the highlights, founder stories, and entrepreneurial opportunities uncovered at one of Scotland’s most exciting startup competitions.

Articles in the series: 7

Startup to Scaleup

Startup to Scaleup is a comprehensive, end-to-end series guiding founders through every stage of the business growth journey – from taking the first steps and shaping business models to fundraising, securing investment, and mastering the challenges of scaling. Whether you’re building your market, crafting your story, or navigating valuations and angel investment, this series gives you the roadmap to grow with confidence.

Articles in the series: 1

Top tips for survival

Top Tips for Survival is a Startups Magazine series by Flavia Richardson, Chief Commercial Officer at Velocity Juice. Written during the COVID-19 pandemic, she discussed the top tips for survival, how small businesses and startups can weather unprecedented events, as well as top tips for company culture, and branding.

Articles in the series: 5

Your Digital Download

Your Digital Download is a series where digital marketing expert Emily Perkins delivers actionable digital marketing strategies, SEO insights, and brand-building techniques tailored specifically for startup founders. From transforming your online presence and mastering SEO, to understanding the permanence of your digital footprint and protecting your brand reputation in an increasingly competitive online marketplace, she explains what needs to be done to improve your digital footprint.

Articles in the series: 2