In recent years, a growing awareness of sustainability and social responsibility has seen Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) truly enter the mainstream, becoming increasingly important to a business’ reputation and to investors’ decision-making.
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Jessica Camus
14.02.2022
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With #QVCS Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we interview Kirsty Macdonald, Principal, JamJar Investments
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Kirsty Macdonald
14.02.2022
Launching your business is an exciting time full of possibilities. You can be your own boss, you can set your own hours, you can be in control of your life. There are so many incredible benefits that come with running your own business and once you’re up and running it can feel like all of your dreams are in reach!
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Daniel Groves
12.02.2022
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
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Maddyness UK
11.02.2022
As part of our quickfire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Ross McCaw, CEO and cofounder of OurPeople, about short, targeted internal communications and maintaining team engagement in the hybrid environment.
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Ross McCaw
10.02.2022
All websites that display pornography will be legally required to verify the age of those accessing their content under a new provision of the Online Safety Bill.
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Maddyness UK
10.02.2022
Having run my own startup and worked with over 100 different startups in a variety of capacities from founding team to consultant, I’ve identified 3 major reasons why startups fail to grow.
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Tristan Gillen
10.02.2022
Less than 8% of C-Levels in Product Teams are occupied by women. To change this, the startup 50inTech is launching “Wannabe a CPO” a virtual Bootcamp on the 16-18 of February to help women in product level up to reach the top. Caroline Ramade, founder of 50inTech and member of the UN Women French Committee, believes that women must equally co-shape the products of the future.
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Caroline Ramade
09.02.2022
Predictions about venture capital diverged from reality during the first year of the pandemic, as PitchBook summarised last July. When the stock market crashed in April of 2020, most anticipated that funding activity would slow down amidst the uncertainty of lockdowns, social distancing, and strains on the healthcare system.
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Laure Fischer
09.02.2022
Microdosing is the strategic practise of taking a small and controlled amount, usually around 1/8 to 1/10 of the normal dosage of a psychedelic drug such as LSD and magic mushrooms to enhance and compliment your working routine. But does it work and does it have a place in the UK workplace?
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Tali Ramsey
09.02.2022
The pandemic induced shift to remote and hybrid working gave us the chance to completely change the way we work. We had a golden opportunity to create a new paradigm, with more freedom, flexibility and autonomy. Yet just two years later, far too many companies appear to be falling into the same old trap, with ‘digital presenteeism’ becoming an increasing problem.
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Tariq Rauf
08.02.2022
California’s Equinix has partnered with Bloom Energy and Virtual Power Systems, among others, to test technologies supporting environmentally sustainable data centres. Equinix will conduct the trials at its first co-innovation facility near Washington DC, where modular fuel cell and high-density liquid cooling systems will be assessed in collaborations with the various partners.
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Fred Fullerton
07.02.2022
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With #QVCS Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we interview Saalim Chowdhury, newly appointed Managing Director of Techstars London.
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Saalim Chowdhury
07.02.2022
Climate change mitigation is turning into a mainstream strategy as the urgency to reach net-zero is real. Governments, countries, cities and businesses are developing new strategies to reach net zero commitments in efforts to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals.
07.02.2022
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