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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...

SME lending ‘back at pre-COVID levels’

The small business lending market has already returned to pre-pandemic levels of activity, according...

‘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...

Strategic partnership to boost funding for SMEs

A strategic partnership is to boost funding for SMEs through invoice finance. International SME f...

Record lending levels at Praetura

Praetura Group’s lending division has celebrated a record-breaking start to the year in Q1. Thi...

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...