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4% of the world’s startup unicorns are based in the UK - step forward a new National Investment Fund proposed by the current UK Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, which aims to help cutting-edge UK startups become world-leading unicorns (innovative firms valued over $1 billion USD). Currently at 'consultation' stage, The consultation,‘Financing growth in innovative firms’, looks ...
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Henna Sheth writes for Gorilla Accounting, a technology-driven, accountancy provider for Contractors and Freelancers. Here she discusses why first-time entrepreneurs should think thoroughly about their business structure. As a one-man band, a contractor, or an aspiring business tycoon, the first step to building your empire will be deciding on a financially efficient operating structure...
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Startacus co-founder, Alastair Cameron pondered on this very point on LinkedIn last week, and so we thought wise to continue to ask the question. Should Computer Science be made mandatory at GCSE level as a qualification? In the UK, there were apparently more than 5 million GCSE entries across all subjects in 2017, and of those Computing / ICT made up only 67,800 of those entri...
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The Forum of Private Business is encouraging the next UK government to create conditions for an increase in business performance and productivity both in UK trading and exporting overseas. “A one percent increase in productivity achieved across the UK macro economy would add almost £20 billion to our national output. It would also reduce the annual government deficit by around £...
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Who launched political manifesto’s this week? Of course if you’ve in inkling into UK politics, you’ll know that the main political parties of the blue, red, yellow and green launched their manifesto’s in time for next month's general election. However also launched this week, one manifesto stood out to team Startacus. techUK, a leading body and trade association for t...
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A few weeks ago we promised to focus some of our editorial around the imminent UK General Election - whilst of course ensuring that it was relevant for startups, sme’s and entrepreneurs. So far, we’ve highlighted PostBug - the  ‘online-to-postage’ website allowing groups of people with common interests to send similar postcards or letters to public figures, such as pol...
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A key area that many a startup and small business struggle at, is finding the time to search for public sector and government tendering opportunities. If you do then find the time to search for those opportunities, it can then be a minefield to find the right opportunities for your actual business. And, after all that (phew) and you’ve found that said ‘opportunity’, having the p...
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Bodalgo is a two-sided marketplace startup from Germany. Their marketplace aims to connect clients to the perfect voice over talent and for voice talents to find the perfect jobs. We spoke to Founder Armin Hierstetter to find out more about Bodalgo, how they aim to beat their competitor, scale globally, and his impression of the UK Tech Startup scene post BREXIT... Hi there Armin / Bodalgo, tell ...
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With our UK Startup review of 2016 almost up to date, we return for the last time to cover the key Startup happenings and news stories that occurred during the last two months of 2016... In September and October we covered, amongst other things, UK Startup happenings involving UK Startup Accelerators and competitions, key Startup Investment deals that made the news, the impact of the Nationa...
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With our UK Startup review of 2016 now two thirds done, we return to cover the key Startup happenings and news stories that occurred during the months of September and October. In July and August we covered amongst other things, the post BREXIT startup / tech fallout, the lure of Berlin as a replacement for London as a base for Tech Startups and a whole load of Investment and Startup related news...
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