On your marks, get set, buy! As Black Friday approaches, consumers are in the starting blocks, retailers are crossing their fingers, and we are getting ready, as we do every year, to rave about this American phenomenon. But is there really a reason to be excited about a feast of over-consumption, reflecting the self-indulgent blindness of high-tech?
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Vianney Vaute
25.11.2020
And the four people you shouldn’t be listening to. Is your product building itself? It should be. The longer I’ve been an entrepreneur, the more I believe in the self-perpetuating success of a product and a startup. Yes, there’s still a lot of hard work to be done. Yes, you need experience to make critical decisions. Yes, external factors can take a company down at any given moment.
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Joe Procopio
24.11.2020
It’s very natural for humans to see something working for other people and want a piece of it for themselves. This is why you see trends and memes sweep through the industry - just think of all the times you have heard pitches including “X is broken” or “we’re democratising Y”.
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Max Tatton-Brown
24.11.2020
Pastries, pancakes and Coco Pops are delicious, but are they nutritious? No, says Alexandre Sagakian, who’s determined to re-crown breakfast as the best meal of the day with his plant-based food subscription service Blend My Day.
24.11.2020
Spacehive, the UK’s leading place-based funding platform and one of its most innovative social businesses, has announced the appointment of a new CEO. Marketing leader Misha Dhanak, the co-founder and former CEO of leading agency, The Romans, replaces Chris Gourlay, founder of Spacehive, who is stepping down as CEO and will join the Board.
24.11.2020
According to new data from Tech Nation and Adzuna, Tech is now Bristol’s dominant industry, boasting the most jobs and higher-than-average salaries across the board and as of today there are 367 open job positions for software engineers in Bristol with an average salary of £58,070.
24.11.2020
StarLeaf is a global collaboration and video meetings solution. The company is headquartered in Watford, and we employ over 200 people around the world. While we compete with Teams and Zoom, we do things quite differently - above all, we focus on providing enterprise customers with the best possible video-enabled collaboration.
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Mark Richer
23.11.2020
Maddyness speaks to Mirjana Prokic about leaving a high-powered but impossibly stressful marketing job to become a healthtech entrepreneur, the Alexander Technique, and helping healthcare professionals suffering from pain and burnout.
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Mirjana Prokic
23.11.2020
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. We spoke to Carmen Alfonso Rico, Partner at Blossom Capital.
23.11.2020
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This Monday, we look at the UK's newly-announced National Cyber Force, which is out to attack terrorists, criminals and entire states.
23.11.2020
Aimed at retail investors, Sugi is the first platform in the UK allowing users to check the carbon impact of their investments and compare with industry benchmarks to help them build a greener portfolio that is in line with their values.
23.11.2020
A £12B 10-point green plan that could create around 250,000 jobs has been announced by UK prime minister Boris Johnson. It includes the widely anticipated decision to end sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than previously scheduled.
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Marc Height
23.11.2020
If you want customers, focus on useful over flash. I just launched the most boring MVP of my career. Admittedly, it was boring on purpose, but even I was shocked at how vanilla the results were. It’s OK though, because even though the MVP was dull as shit, it was also useful as hell. At this early stage, useful is all I care about.
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Joe Procopio
22.11.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd, revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.
21.11.2020
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