Advice - Features

Don’t be seduced by big-name brands

Carl Wong looks back at his time running LivingLens in two halves. He co-founded the video analyt...

Startups must remember that cash is king

The videogames industry is undoubtedly a UK success story. An industry incubated in Eighties bedr...

When should a startup establish a board?

When Chloe Barrett launched her EdTech startup, one of her first decisions was to create a board. ...

Co-founder’s coma triggered InsurTech DeadHappy

If you were to die today, what would be the impact on your family? A difficult enough sentence to...

‘In the startup world, a good idea often isn’t enough’

Entrepreneurs behind businesses of all kinds agree that a good idea will never go anywhere unless it...

What do you do when your best friend and business partner dies?

In January this year Andy Sawer, co-founder of Pareto Law, died after a 16-month battle with an aggr...

Mission Control: How to raise investment remotely

A few years ago Rory Cellan-Jones spoke of investor ‘trainophobia’ at a tech event in the North ...

‘Dyslexia and deafness won’t stop me building a tech unicorn’

Martin Port is a big personality, which is appropriate for the founder of a business called BigChang...

‘I was a financial nightmare – so I built a business to help other women’

Tech entrepreneur Laura Pomfret openly admits she had a problem with managing her own finances. A...

From football touchline to trailblazing FinTech

Many a startup has origins in a conversation from the pub or workplace - but the idea for GoHenry wa...

Don’t apologise for putting growth before profit

Manchester-based software-as-a-service company Pimberly made headlines in November after securing £...

Launching: HYBR – fixing the ‘toxic’ student rental market

Who? HYBR was founded by Hannah Chappatte, a 24-year-old University of Bristol graduate, with fel...