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Trinny Woodall: The pain of closing down my tech business

Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine - ‘Trinny & Susannah’ - are one of TV’s most recog...

Ideagen boss’s journey from bootstrapping to £1.1bn takeover

The big technology story of the last week has been the bidding war for RegTech Ideagen. Headquart...

What it’s like to make a fortune and lose it – twice

Resilience is undoubtedly a key trait in successful entrepreneurs - and Steve Witt has fallen back u...

Looking to launch in a new market? Create a beachhead

A beachhead is defined as ‘an area of land near the sea from where an attacking army can move forw...

Meet the tech startup looking after pets and vets

Vet-AI has been described as the ‘Babylon Health for pets’. The Leeds-based startup is on a ...

How ‘kaizen’ is driving forward mortgage disrupter

Are you constantly looking for ways to improve? While this is in essence a good thing - vital, ev...

‘I wish I’d known it would work out in the end’

Sport, travel and bricklaying – three college courses I started and never finished by the time I w...

‘Bootstrapping saw us outlast & acquire our competitors’

A few years ago, when the on-demand laundry sector exploded, startups Laundrapp and Zipjet grabbed h...

Launching: Dittolo – a digital mental health platform for businesses

Who? Twin brothers Duncan and Guy Robertson are behind the platform. Duncan worked in the airline i...

LinkedIn post that sparked ‘game-changing’ partnership 

Veteran dealmaker Jonathan Boyers was looking at the stunning view of Manchester’s skyline from hi...

We started in a Portakabin – now we’re a multi-million-pound tech business

There have been many incarnations of BiP Solutions in the journey from print publisher to the buzzin...

‘At 21 I knew nothing about life as I fought in the Gulf War’ – entrepreneur

I’m definitely not one of those people who would tell their 21-year-old self to set up in business...