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If you are an entrepreneur or operate a small business, then you may be looking for ways to build upon your success and grow your business into an empire. Here we are going to look at five simple ways to do just that!Hire the Right PeopleNo matter what kind of business you operate, one of your biggest and most important assets will be the people you have working for you.If you want your business...
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Good news for fashion and the environment with the innovative sustainable fashion app Nuw expanding its services across the UK and Ireland... Previously only available in London, Dublin and Cambridge, the sustainable fashion app, Nuw has just announced the expansion of its services across the UK and Ireland to empower people to reduce their environmental impact of fashion, and give love to t...
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Selling your house? Movewise is a London-based PropTech startup that works with your best local agents to sell your property faster and at a higher price We have written before about buying and renting a home, but we have covered the other side of this a lot less. Selling a house is a stressful proposition in which we have to rely on an estate agent to put our best interests first, be transparent...
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Dinner@7 - the Irish startup that's tackling isolation caused by the pandemic by creating a community for sharing virtual meals and good conversation via Zoom Everything for the last 6 or 7 months has revolved around the pandemic, from work to entertainment to family life. Everything has had to change. For many people, this change has meant living in isolation, without friends and family visiting...
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Caper is an innovative app for all the family to use -  combining interactive storytelling with fun activities and tasks People are forever frustrated with the amount of time their children spend in front of a screen. Ignoring the £600 phone we just bought them to keep them occupied, we lament the fact that they don’t play outside like we used to. But perhaps there is a happy me...
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PFS, a leading player in the FinTech ecosystem supports the World's First COVID-19 Stimulus Payments Programme of its Kind in Jersey... Innovation in the FinTech sector with the news that PFS is partnering with the Government of Jersey via its unique spend local prepaid Mastercard initiative. The initiative is part of the government’s overall £150 million fiscal stimulus package ...
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PiPcall is a phone in a phone - an innovative telecoms app that's designed for business teams to replace mobile handsets Whilst at one time having a business mobile may have seemed as a real perk in a job, it is likely to be anything but these days. After all, when you provide a member of your team with a business mobile, you’re simply providing them with “another thing” th...
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Five of the teams from NI-based Catalyst's first Co-Founders programme in the NW have been successful in securing £10,000 of Innovate UK funding  Great news from NI-based Catalyst which successfully completed its first North West Northern Ireland Co-Founders programme, supporting a new generation of first-time entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups from the region....
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Major funding secured by Glasgow-based ClinSpec Dx to help further develop its innovative, impactful and early detection cancer testing technology  Efforts to improve the early detection of cancer have received a significant boost with a £2.4 million funding deal to support the further development of innovative testing technology.Glasgow-based ClinSpec Diagnostics Limited (ClinSpec Dx)...
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The Belfast-based cloud and data technology startup that conceptualises raw data into actionable insights for the healthcare industry... Belfast-based artificial intelligence and deep-learning startup Sonrai Analytics’ platform is a flexible answer to slow, single-minded data research applications that are expensive and not user friendly.  The team has used their experience across the...
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Nobody said launching a new business is easy. Startups come with many considerations and planning stages. Below, we have outlined some of the common themes that many new businesses may wish to bear in mind at the outset. Broadband - stay connected or miss out Broadband isn’t just something that’s nice to have. Broadband shouldn’t be seen as just an optional extra that you mig...
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The world-leading sustainability competition, Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge announces its finalists for 2020, including two startups from Britain We've written previously about the shortlist for leading sustainability competition, the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge and now the finalists have just been announced. And we're delighted to reveal that two British startups Jiva Materials and S...
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