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How do you attract private equity investment?

Richard Ibbett’s job is to identify management teams across the North West looking to grow their b...

Taskforce to boost next generation of fast-growth female founders

A new government initiative is to boost the next generation of fast-growth female founders. The �...

I’d tell my younger self: Rock your own style

I like the idea of being able to sit down with my younger self and chew the fat on a whole host of t...

Why the death of the founder shouldn’t signal the end of the business

"When you're 21 you think you know it all, when you're 30 you know you know it all, when you're 50 y...

‘Diversity & inclusion is about progress, not perfection’

How many businesses are paying lip service to diversity & inclusion? Simply saying that D&...

Why CEOs must learn to delegate

Safa Alkateb used to pride himself on knowing the name of all the staff at his software company Auto...

Should employees have full control over their learning?

‘Training days’ are losing ground to ongoing learning and development where employees ‘level u...

‘David Attenborough’s Blue Planet convinced me I had to join the fight to save the world’

As Simon Mellin and three of his friends settled down to watch an episode of Sir David Attenborough�...

‘The secret to success is not trying to be perfect’

Rachel McDonald says she won’t let her life-long quest for perfection prevent her from getting thi...

Meet one of the UK’s most highly rated entrepreneurs (just don’t expect to pronounce his name!)

Being the first name on the school register was one of the few benefits of being called Andrew Avane...

‘Time for government to support co-working hubs’

Tech firm Zoom has called on the UK government to support co-working hubs across the regions. The...

Meet the woman leading a green energy revolution

"If it’s broken, find a way to fix it." For Somayeh Taheri, a former postdoc researcher at the Un...