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What is an Ecosystem and How to Build One Around Your Growth Business

What is an Ecosystem and How to Build One Around Your Growth Business

An ‘ecosystem’ is widely used to describe an area where entrepreneurs “hang out.” But what exactly is it? And how can an ecosystem help you build your business? California’s Silicon Valley is a great example of a well-functioning entrepreneurial ecosystem on a macro level. It has a well-developed venture

Looking to Finance Your Scaleup? Here Are a Few Alternative Ways to Do So

Looking to Finance Your Scaleup? Here Are a Few Alternative Ways to Do So

It goes without saying that recent global events have drastically changed the landscape for raising capital and securing financing. But who better to seek out alternative ways than the innovative tech startups of the UK! Remember, getting to where you are now wasn’t easy, and finding alternative financing routes

How to Fundraise in Challenging Times

How to Fundraise in Challenging Times

Fundraising during this COVID-19 crisis is probably one of the greatest challenges that startups and growing businesses will face. While cutting costs can help to stabilise your business, it’s having access to capital that will ensure both short-term and long-term sustainability and growth. The good news is there are

Choosing Trust Over Surveillance as Leaders Head Up Remote Organisations

Choosing Trust Over Surveillance as Leaders Head Up Remote Organisations

Working from home has often seemed an appealing concept for employees, and companies have been under some pressure to show they support flexible working and work/life balance. But it’s a completely different matter right now, when there is no choice but to remote work due to Coronavirus. For

How to Engage, Monitor and Manage Employees Remotely

How to Engage, Monitor and Manage Employees Remotely

A recent survey of 200 startups conducted by a group of UK-based VC investors showed the increasing need for support on maintaining engagement and productivity remotely as well as monitoring and managing individuals. We have pulled together some tools that may be helpful to your teams. For improved employee engagement

How to Future-Proof Your Business in a Downturn

How to Future-Proof Your Business in a Downturn

It doesn’t take long for a volatile market to start to bite. So how can you future-proof your business through a recession? The first step is to take a critical look at different business reactions. Where does your business fit and what does this mean for your trading? All

Four Step Approach to Selling & Marketing in Challenging Times

Four Step Approach to Selling & Marketing in Challenging Times

Serving your customers should always be at the heart of your selling and marketing activities. But while businesses have radically changed in the last few weeks, it may not be all systems go for your customers. Before you hit the sell button, adapting your sales strategy by understand the evolving

How We’re Navigating Through Uncertainty at TotallyMoney

How We’re Navigating Through Uncertainty at TotallyMoney

Felicity Winkley, head of people at TotallyMoney, talks about her company’s experience of navigating the downturn and leading in a crisis. As a leader of people, she reflects on lessons learnt from the early weeks of the crisis in managing a remote workforce and keeping a business going in

How to Sell in a Difficult Environment

How to Sell in a Difficult Environment

In the middle of a downturn, just how can you anticipate your customers’ needs? Dean Munslow is a scaling sales expert and advisor. He’s scaled sales for Box to their IPO, Github to their Microsoft acquisition and Crowdstrike’s IPO. Here are some top three takeaways from him that

Challenges Healthcare Startups Face

Challenges Healthcare Startups Face

The healthcare industry is one of the hardest to digitalise – rumour has it the NHS still uses faxes! But with a pandemic, initiatives that suddenly have previously taken years to adopt have become reality within a matter of weeks. The Coronavirus crisis has brought a new focus to the healthcare

How To Get the Most Out of an Advisor

How To Get the Most Out of an Advisor

You’ve decided that getting an advisor could really help your business grow and provide some much-needed expertise. So how do you go about ensuring that you really make the most out of the relationship, and how can you harness the real value that advisors can bring to your business?

Scaling in Difficult Times - What Seasoned Advisors Told Startups and Scaleups Amidst the Covid-19 Crisis

Scaling in Difficult Times - What Seasoned Advisors Told Startups and Scaleups Amidst the Covid-19 Crisis

Market shocks like the COVID-19 crisis don’t come around very often, but when they do the way successful businesses react to them can teach us a lot. Of course the crisis was very advantageous to some business models, with online video software, home exercise and a variety of other

Finding the Right Advisor

Finding the Right Advisor

You might have identified that your business could benefit from the guidance and expertise of an advisor, but how do you go about finding exactly the right match for your company? With numerous talented professionals around, choosing the right start-up advisor can indeed be a tricky job. Don’t miss

How to Engage an Advisor

How to Engage an Advisor

You may have identified your advisor – but it’s not over yet; ensuring you get the most out of the relationship is crucial. As a leader you need to think carefully and strategically about what you want from your advisor. What’s going to be the best way to harness

Getting Added Value From Your Advisor

Getting Added Value From Your Advisor

Your advisor can be as ‘hands-on’ with your business as you want – it should be all stipulated in your agreement and covered in your scoping relationship. But there may well be more ways that your advisor can add value to your growth business. What are these? How can you make

Advisor Myth Busting

Advisor Myth Busting

You might have identified that you need an advisor, but you’re not totally sure they are for you. You’ve heard some stories that they are expensive and not massively hands-on, or that you end up paying them for years as you are committed to using an advisor. What’

The Definitive Guide to Finding the Best Advisors for your Business

The Definitive Guide to Finding the Best Advisors for your Business

Finding and securing an advisor can be a key factor for the success of your business. But as much as it may feel like there are many ways to find one – there’s online networking, face-to-face events, recommendations… – these routes can often be time consuming and very hit-and-miss. In your

Blockchain, Is It Really the Future of the Financial Services Sector?

Blockchain, Is It Really the Future of the Financial Services Sector?

Or just another lesson in tech hype that hasn’t delivered? Only a few short years ago, blockchain – and more specifically cryptocurrency – was all over the news, promising to disrupt the banking industry, save financial organisations billions of dollars, and democratise currency transactions for a new and fairer society. Fast

EdTech, HealthTech, LegalTech… is Tech at the Heart of Everything We Now Do?

EdTech, HealthTech, LegalTech… is Tech at the Heart of Everything We Now Do?

Digital transformation has long been on the lips of many a leading business woman or man. And recent global events have only served to accelerate the move towards a digital-first world. Even sectors previously not associated with cutting-edge tech solutions are now being forced to re-evaluate. Not just to enable

Diverse Businesses Outperform Their Peers By Up to 36% - Can You Afford Not to Tackle Diversity This Year?

Diverse Businesses Outperform Their Peers By Up to 36% - Can You Afford Not to Tackle Diversity This Year?

As with a number of other business-related challenges, the topic of diversity has taken somewhat of a back seat in the past year as companies all across the globe have been focused on survival and on navigating the trials and tribulations of the new Covid world. In fact, many a