Many of us are on the brink of or have well and truly fell into the black hole of burnout, a place that is almost inescapable once entered.
19.03.2020
Earlier this year, Alex Ainsworth received an email from Citymapper offering early bird access to their new product — an Oyster card rival designed especially for London. As he hadn't signed up to a new fintech card in at least two weeks, he knew he had to get my hands on it, here's what happened.
19.03.2020
Like many across the world, we’ve changed the way we work – our whole team is working remotely. We’ve been lucky: many of our team at Web Summit have decades’ experience working from home, while others are based in offices away from our Dublin, Ireland headquarters. We’d like to share some of the things that have made our transition to remote work as painless as possible. The first section deals with how our teams have adapted to working from home: the nuts and bolts of working remotely. The second deals with the broader, structural changes we’ve gone through as a company. We hope some of it helps.
18.03.2020
Failure is part of being an entrepreneur. Remember Evan Williams? Before he co-founded Twitter he failed to make a success of his previous startup, Odeo? The reasons for failure must be analysed and lessons can always be learned. In this article, some founders have agreed to talk about how their ventures came to a sudden end.
18.03.2020
Joe Procopio explains how you can strike a balance between growth and profitability from the earliest stages of your company.
17.03.2020
Barclays and OpenFin are committed to supporting all types of companies – from growing startups to established businesses that are shaping the future of financial services and are offering a unique opportunity that could take a startup business to the next level. If you are based in EU/UK and focused on building the next generation of financial desktop technology, you can apply now.
16.03.2020
As we adapt to working and communicating from home and potential self-isolation it is timely that MessageBird, the cloud communications platform company, should launch Inbox.ai offering a seamless multi-platform communication experience wherever you find yourself.
16.03.2020
The cyber risk level has also increased this week on the back of Coronavirus as criminals have launched email phishing attacks to steal private information. The US secret service stated criminals are posing as legitimate medical and health organisations to mass disseminate emails tricking individuals to install malware and gain access to logins.
16.03.2020
How is good feedback constructed? What are the crucial elements that determine if you are giving good feedback? Are there tools that make this complex task easier? Anne Levi, operations manager at MyJob.Company, gives some ideas on how to succeed in giving feedback.
12.03.2020
Joséphine Goube is the head of Techfugees, an organisation started in 2015 to empower refugees through technology. She was invited to share her ideas at the Maddy Keynote 2019 where she gave us some insight on what makes our society go around.
12.03.2020
The household gadget has seen some drastic changes. What was once a novelty is beginning to dominate household life and turn homes in smart homes.
12.03.2020
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. Today we interview David Chreng-Messembourg of LeadBlock Partners.
11.03.2020
Technology is being used to create wellbeing gadgets that make our work life and hours easier and more enjoyable. Here are some of the most useful gadgets that can help to make health, wellbeing and happiness central to your working practices.
10.03.2020
Early in my entrepreneurial career, I got really good at the elevator pitch — a collection of word salad that purports to highlight the most valuable aspects of a startup idea in 60 seconds. In fact, I peaked at mastering the elevator pitch right before I realized the utter uselessness of mastering an elevator pitch.
10.03.2020