At the peak of the pandemic, a survey found that one in four of us had feelings of loneliness and young people were among the most at risk. With offices and workplaces reopening, you might expect that this epidemic of loneliness would subside.
13.05.2022
What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? Having a great idea – or several of them – is a useful starting point, but is rarely the defining factor in determining a person’s success.
12.05.2022
Incredible startups coming out of Europe are nothing new. Look no further than some of the continent’s newest unicorns including Oyster HR, Instabox, and Matillion (a Sapphire investment), as examples. But the rise of an ever increasing number of U.S. VC firms recognising the potential of Europe’s maturing ecosystem cannot have gone unnoticed as of late. It seems that rarely a month goes by without a VC group making the jump across the pond to open a new office.
11.05.2022
Most startup founders will agree that having a first-mover's advantage by reducing time to market is an essential part of their long-term success strategy.
11.05.2022
Office working is back, yet people are still working remotely. In some instances, this can be more practical. But with 1 in 5 Brits wanting to work remotely full-time, have workers become too comfortable in their own homes?
10.05.2022
Menopause is a market ripe for innovation, and startups are beginning to chase this opportunity internally and externally. While there are significant challenges to tackling the issue, brands that choose to sideline menopause as a ‘women’s issue’ rather than a business issue will miss out.
03.05.2022
Payments are the backbone of a functioning global economy. A payments system can be defined as any system that can be used to settle a financial transaction by exchanging monetary value.
30.04.2022
In the grand scheme of the over 300,000-year history of humankind, living into your 70s and beyond is a very recent phenomenon. Thanks to improved standards of living, ranging from advancements in medicine to hygiene and unprecedented times of peace in large parts of the world, we are living far beyond what our ancestors could have ever dreamed of.
29.04.2022
Technology has revolutionised the worlds of sales and marketing. While each industry once relied on standing on street corners handing out fliers or endless cold phone calls that often led to nowhere, innovative tech has now helped sales and marketing evolve to new heights.
28.04.2022
UK workers desperately need a productivity boost, and that boost could be a country-wide implementation of a four-day work week.
26.04.2022
Gravitating towards big-name companies when searching for a job as a student is only natural. I mean, who would not want to land an internship with Google, JP Morgan, or Apple? However, there is a lot to gain when you consider working in a startup as a student.
23.04.2022
The NHS has a workforce crisis. More people are leaving than are joining, with the Guardian reporting last month that one in ten nursing posts, and one in 17 doctors’ posts, are currently unfilled.
21.04.2022
AI and IoT are the two biggest technological components revolutionising every industry at present. AI is expected to reach a global market value of $267B by 2027 with its far-reaching benefits. Moreover, AI by 2030, is likely to contribute $15.7T to the global economy.
21.04.2022
What do Snoop Dogg, JP Morgan, and Samsung have in common? They’ve all bought ‘land’ in the metaverse, of course!
20.04.2022