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Help to Grow: Digital scheme – are you eligible?

The government’s Help to Grow: Digital scheme – designed to support smaller businesses in adopti...

LoopMe founder wins Star of the Week on 10th anniversary

The founder of a mobile advertising platform has won the latest TechBlast Star of the Week award. ...

Can a startup be TOO ambitious?

Lancashire-based digital marketing agency +24 Marketing recently hit £1m turnover for the first-tim...

Launching: Vulse – an AI social media platform for small businesses

Who? Vulse was created by entrepreneur Rob Illidge, CEO of social media agency Social Republic. Wh...

Don’t let rejection put you off from finding investment 

“My advice to founders is to reject rejection.” That’s the view of Sue Barnard, senior mana...

A COVID PCR test in 30 minutes – but 14 years in the making

“It is the nature of MedTech that everything takes three times longer than you think it will.” ...

Is running a business better second time around?

The date was January 2020 and Jennie Johnson was done. The Kids Allowed nursery group that she’...

‘Elevator pitch convinced me to launch my business’

It was the ultimate elevator pitch that changed Susanna Lawson’s life. The budding entreprene...

Mental health pioneer ‘astounded’ by derogatory investor

The relative lack of investment into female-founded startups is well-documented - but personal exper...

Meet the investment world’s ‘Fab Five’

At first glance they could be mistaken for an ageing boy band brought back together for a global reu...

On Blue Monday, protect your staff’s mental health with Microsoft Viva

There are many startups out there powered by workforces who have never met in person. The COVID p...

What is click fraud? How it could kill your business

One of the less obvious impacts of COVID-19 on business is the worsening of the click fraud threat. ...