Advice - Investors

‘I didn’t believe it was Sir Terry Leahy on the phone’

Liz Ashall-Payne had only just written a business plan for her health app evaluation platform ORCHA ...

Startups should follow ‘scientific method’ to success

If one thing is certain in business, it is that experience informs decision-making. Serial entrep...

HealthTechs must move from ‘clicks to bricks’

A leading HealthTech investor expects online care platforms to increasingly “move out into the rea...

Keep hunting for funding – you only need one ‘yes’ in 100

Startup founders face one of the hardest challenges of their life as they look to simultaneously gro...

Why Northcoders chose to IPO over VC investment

One of the more interesting stock market flotations of the year - at least to my eyes - was that of ...

The ‘knowledge gap’ which leaves regional startups unprepared

In the first half of 2021 alone, UK tech startups and scaleups received £13.5 billion of venture ca...

How a plan drawn up on a napkin turned GP Bullhound into a $100m a year business

When Hugh Campbell took to the stage at last week’s Northern Tech Awards at Leeds’ New Dock Hall...

We raised £400k from family and friends – and lost it

When Gisela and Daniel Wood raised more than £400,000 from family and friends, they did their homew...

Backing of high-profile investor transformed business

E-Sign is a Liverpool-based electronic signature service provider that speeds up the process of col...

Unicorn founder: Why we stopped selling our product for months

The founder of a hyper-growth French unicorn launching a base on London’s Silicon Roundabout has s...

Don’t entertain buyer’s remorse when you take investment

Accountant-turned-software developer John Whelan says founders shouldn’t regret giving away equity...

McDonald’s was the order we just couldn’t turn down

Dean Ward will never forget the meeting with McDonald’s that added rocket fuel to Evoke Creative�...