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The challenges of working with a business partner or another co-founder, as told by 12 of the UK’s top startup co-founders... Ask any entrepreneur and they’ll tell you that running your own business isn’t easy. The highs are high, the lows are low. But what about when you’re running a business with someone else? Are the good times better shared, and the bad times halved? T...
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Melita Latham, founder of Melita Latham London, suggests taking a break from your business is the best Christmas present you can give yourself. With Christmas around the corner, stress levels will only continue to rise for business owners.  As a retail entrepreneur myself, I know all too well how many of us will be scrambling to make the most of the festive season from a sales perspective &...
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This year, Mental Health Awareness Week (14 - 20 May) is shining a spotlight on stress. Jaan Madan, Workplace Lead at Mental Health First Aid England, shares some top tips on how small businesses can keep their stress levels in check.  Over recent years more and more business leaders, celebrities and even the royal family have spoken up about mental health – which is encouraging to see...
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Workspace accelerator group Huckletree has launched a new membership offering for working parents, in its new space in West London. Huckletree West in White City provides both shared workspaces and private studios to digital lifestyle businesses and now offers a Kids’ Studio where parents can work while their pre-school children play. For just £175 a month working parents (...
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Guy Moreve is the Head of Marketing at Paymentsense one of UK's fastest growing tech companies. Here, Guy writes about the importance of work-life balance in the UK workplace, based on a recent Paymentsense workplace survey. Getting the right work-life balance is important to build a successful career at the same time as making the most out of your life by enjoying the things you love w...
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You shouldn’t be defined solely by your job and you certainly shouldn’t feel enslaved to it. On the other hand, we spend so much of our lives at work — dealing with clients, going to meetings, talking to our colleagues — we shouldn’t underplay how crucial work is to our ultimate happiness either. For this reason, Jobbio has launched the Happiness Index, original rese...
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Isabelle Ohnemus, Founder of fashion-sizing shopping platform EyeFitU shares a few sustainable & useful ways of maintaining that important healthy work/life balance. Isabelle Ohnemus is the Founder and CEO of fashion-sizing shopping platform EyeFitU. Isabelle’s background in international finance gave her the solid foundation to turn her passion for fashion and desire to help change the...
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myAlfred is an App to help you to find the perfect balance between work & life by managing your schedule, through advanced AI...As busy people, we like the idea of having our own butler to arrange our schedules, book our restaurants, and fold our Batman pyjamas, and with myAlfred, we get most of that and more. Ok, myAlfred won’t call you a Batmobile, but it will call you a taxi to take ...
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For entrepreneurs, the lines between work and personal life can blur significantly and the scales can tip heavily in favour of the former. This isn’t good for the entrepreneur’s friendships, family life, even their business and, ultimately, their health and mental well-being. The divorce rate for entrepreneurs is often suggested as being higher than the average, demonstrating just what...
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The New Year generally brings with it a plethora of fitness videos, healthy eating regimes and gym subscriptions. Whilst adhering to them is admittedly a personal thing, employers have their part to play too. Hannah Sims from employee benefits provider Perkbox outlines some tips to outline how you can avoid the New Year's Resolution ‘fail’ and how employers can use New Year’s res...
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