When a business relationship sours, it’s not a relationship worth saving. I’m a total team player. But even after 20+ years and 14 startups, I’ve never been a cofounder. Not once.
21.12.2021
Advertisers in the UK will have spent £27.7B on digital ads by the end of 2021. Globally, this number will reach a whopping $455B, which is a 20% increase compared to the year before according to the latest study by eMarketer.
21.12.2021
Maddyness caught up with David Abrahamovitch, CEO of independent coffee chain, Grind, to find out how he led the business to new heights during one of the hospitality industry's most challenging years.
21.12.2021
McDonald’s UK & Ireland has rolled out a new-build restaurant in Shropshire, which it claims is its first to meet net-zero carbon regulations in its construction and operations. The building was constructed using a range of recycled materials, including cladding made from recycled IT equipment, a drive-thru lane using recycled tyres, internal wall signs made from waste coffee beans, and kerbsides constructed from recycled plastic bottles.
20.12.2021
Of all the messages in the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget, one was particularly clear - we urgently need to address the UK’s digital skills gap. The announcement of a £3.8B investment in training and T-Level courses was welcome news for the tech sector and in the future will undoubtedly go some way to alleviating the crippling skills shortage our industry faces.
20.12.2021
As the importance of cybersecurity has increased, so has our awareness of it. Poor cybersecurity has been identified as the most pressing threat to businesses today.
18.12.2021
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
17.12.2021
Klarna, the global retail bank, payments and shopping service, has chosen account-to-account payments business GoCardless to offer bank debit payments to its over 21 million US customers.
17.12.2021
In some of the world’s largest refugee camps, displaced people are buying food and other necessities using advanced technology.
16.12.2021
Digital disruption has been a blessing for some in the marketing world and a curse for others. The distinction between the two has been how reactive, and willing marketers have been to evolve with the times.
16.12.2021
Tom and Phil Beahon are pitting themselves against the likes of Nike, Adidas, and Puma with their homegrown, high-end sports brand Castore.
15.12.2021
We’re all familiar with the copper wire telephone network: in use since 1876, it’s kept business communications going for years. Since its invention, the public switch telephone network (PSTN) has seen a lot of changes: it's gone from manual switching, which required a human operator, to electronic switching; from just simple copper wires to fibre cables and cellular networks.
15.12.2021
Few have understood how the reverberations from COVID-19 have left markets wide open for major disruption by new entrants. By accelerating digitisation and innovation, this turbulent period dramatically lowered barriers to entry for new players while simultaneously stifling innovation spending among industry incumbents.
14.12.2021
One of the things I love about working on Teaching Startup — my project to democratise startup mentorship by making it affordable and timely — is that every once in a while we don’t answer an entrepreneur’s question so much as get them to discover the answer they already know.
14.12.2021