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It is well known that for every £1 of VC funding, female-founded businesses receive just 1p. Worse than that, for the last 20 years only 10% of venture funding has gone towards businesses that even include a woman anywhere in the founding or leadership team. Investors must show more than just good intentions if we're to realise the full potential of female-founded startups.
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Stephen Page
15.04.2021
The number of unicorn startups is steadily growing in Korea and has now hit 13. In 2020, due to the pandemic, only one startup, Socar, a car sharing startup achieved unicorn status. In Korea, the government made considerable efforts to the birth of unicorns with financial subsidiaries. Many domestic investors expected to see more unicorns this year, here are 5 Korean startups expected to be the next unicorns.
14.04.2021
Robot servants, automated factories and self-driving cars —these are some of the things that are highlighted whenever the concept of Artificial Intelligence is discussed. The technology is often painted as ‘futuristic’; something that will reshape human life years from now.
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Evelyn Johnson
14.04.2021
Meme stocks are yesterday’s news. The hype machine on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) is at full tilt. So is there something of value here for an opportunistic entrepreneur?
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Joe Procopio
13.04.2021
US startup Watershed has developed an online calculator enabling companies to estimate if remote working will reduce or increase their emissions and by how much. The firm’s model is based on New York City, San Francisco, Houston, Toronto and London, and offers a figure based on the number of staff, where they live, how they get to work and office size. Shopify and Stripe are among Watershed’s client base.
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Fred Fullerton
12.04.2021
Much has been written about the importance of learning to fail and fail well, which has become a mantra of almost every innovative startup around the world. But beyond the rallying cries, motivational slogans and glib Instagram posts, what does any of this really mean?
12.04.2021
We made a big decision for our business last year. Having founded LawAdvisor in Melbourne and grown our business in Australia for a number of years, it was time to get serious about global growth – and for us that meant moving our headquarters and some of our top team to the UK.
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Brennan Ong
08.04.2021
Like many sectors, concerted efforts have helped improve venture capital’s diversity and that of the startups we invest in. Diversity VC’s ‘Diversity in Venture Capital 2019’ study reported that women now make up 30% of the VC workforce, up from 27% in 2017.
08.04.2021
Humans aren’t comfortable with the idea of ageing. Trying to slow down the natural body clock has been our obsession for centuries.
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Simon Lovick
07.04.2021
A pandemic could bring the world to its knees and affect the hospitality, tourism, and restaurant/food service industries, as we have seen with COVID-19. Before such situations, we could travel to any place of our choice anytime without any restrictions. But things changed as guidelines were in place to ensure that the virus did not spread. Social distancing measures were in place, and people had to either follow the rules or stay at home.
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Frank Hamilton
06.04.2021
Geoffrey Moore’s seminal 1991 book, Crossing the Chasm, has been a go-to source for technology entrepreneurs looking to take a product to the mass market. Moore argues technology products do not follow a gentle path from early adopters to the majority, but must cross a chasm between the two.
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Andrew Thelwell
05.04.2021
As we mark the one year anniversary of COVID-19’s dramatic trespass into our existence, many voices are calling for an accounting of the lessons learned. One of the most pivotal lessons we have learned was the disproportionate impact the deadly virus had on Black and ethnic minority communities.
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Patricia Hamzahee
05.04.2021
After almost a year of working from home, many of us have become attached to the flexibility that remote work offers. With the vaccine promising us new hope and a road map outlining when life will return to some sort of normal, many companies have stepped up their plan for return to the office.
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Matt Ephgrave
02.04.2021
As AI systems are increasingly being used by HR to identify candidates for a wide range of job vacancies, can businesses use these AI tools effectively without bias or discrimination?
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David Howell
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