Maddyness is collaborating with environmental publication Ours to Save to bring readers fresh perspectives on sustainability. India is home to 22 of the world’s 30 most polluted cities. The transport sector is responsible for a significant amount of air pollution in the country - as is encapsulated in Delhi, its capital. How will the country's EV rollout work?
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Tanmay Takle
07.01.2021
Agile business practices may have gotten their start with software development, but they certainly didn’t stay relegated to that department for long. Having noticed the benefits that agile approaches bring to coding projects, operations and IT began applying the same thinking to other areas of the organisation, while non-software companies are likewise starting to adopt agile for their own business use cases.
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Victor Snyder
07.01.2021
A growing number of startups are tackling complex healthcare challenges. To be successful, they need insiders like medical doctors in their teams. At the same time, more and more physicians are looking for rewarding alternative careers outside the hospital.
07.01.2021
Are you looking for a way to gain more independence and earn extra money in 2021? Or maybe you’re just looking to start something new during the pandemic after realising that remote workers tend to be more content with their work-life balance?
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Adam Enfroy
06.01.2021
It’s becoming more common to see startups espousing the benefits of regenerative agriculture to meat-lovers with morals. One company, The Ethical Butcher, recently suggested we ditch Veganuary and take up ‘Regenuary’ instead. But can animal agriculture ever be ethical?
06.01.2021
Jessica Li spoke with Sarah Jones Simmer, Chief Operating Officer at Bumble. Sarah was formerly Chief of Staff at Bumble, VP and Head of Business Development and Partnerships at PHLUR, and director at Global Philanthropy Group. Sarah shared her advice for collaboration, leadership, and organisation.
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Jessica Li
06.01.2021
The tricky thing about startup success is it doesn’t happen in a straight line. Look at Amazon, look at Etsy — hell — look at Apple, and compare what those companies are today with what they were at their startup stage. You probably wouldn’t have put much faith into those early companies.
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Joe Procopio
05.01.2021
Google-backed, NearSt, a British retail technology business driving more people onto the high street has raised £2M in seed funding from one of the world’s largest privately-owned international property companies to fuel footfall into bricks and mortar stores at a critical time for physical retailers.
05.01.2021
Google has agreed a Saudi Arabian cloud services deal with a division of state-run oil producer Aramco, risking a staff backlash over potential fossil fuel links and accusations of human rights abuses, Bloomberg has reported.
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Fred Fullerton
04.01.2021
Leadership skills including Coaching, Onboarding and Decision Making top the list of most sought-after skills employers are looking for in new recruits, according to job search engine Adzuna.
04.01.2021
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 Moray Wright, cofounder and CEO of Parkwalk Advisors.
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Moray Wright
04.01.2021
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a first recap of investments for 2021.
01.01.2021
A tech entrepreneur who founded a service to connect charities, the NHS and schools with the UK’s available stock of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Years honours list for services to charity.
31.12.2020
If you google "Quotes on Execution", you will get approximately 61 million results. Is it because a lot of people are sharing their amazing execution results with the world - or is it because we find it so hard to make an idea a reality? My smart money is on the latter.
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Magdalena Bibik
31.12.2020
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