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Karen Meager, co-founder of Monkey Puzzle Training shares some insights on how leadership has changed in the last decade, and what it takes to be a great leader today. Anyone launching their first startup should be aware of what will be required of them as a leader of the business. And it may be useful to know that leadership has changed over the last ten or so years.  In 2012, Monkey Puz...
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Want to revamp or improve your business? Here are some tips on how helping your staff to improve their knowledge and skills can be one of the best ways to do just that. The workplace is changing rapidly, and the skills needed to succeed in today’s fast-paced business world are changing along with it. Upscaling the skills of your employees is the key to revamping your business and making i...
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PUSH Mind and Body reports significant increase in requests from tech companies seeking to support their people’s growth and innovation mindsets. Soaring numbers of tech companies are turning to wellbeing specialists to optimise staff’s growth mindset mode. PUSH Mind and Body, a leading wellbeing and mental health training company which seeks to make work better, reports a 54% ...
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UK Entrepreneurs Peter Rossi and Harry East, have launched 'venture enabler', Equals Collective, to bridge the gap between technology investment and achieving scale up success.  The Equals Collective will deliver technology, marketing and creative expertise to Venture Capital backed businesses to accelerate their development and increase investor returns. Less than 15% o...
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Karina Brown, co-founder at employee growth start-up GroHappy, discusses how learning and development can help start-ups compete in the jobs market. The battle for the best talent can sometimes feel like David versus Goliath. Against the Googles of the world, it can be tough for a start-up to compete. However, offering a generous pay package, free lunches and ping pong tables aren’t quite t...
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Written in partnership with the digital delivery team at Studio Graphene, we take a no-nonsense look at what to expect and how to work effectively with a third party digital design and build team. It is most often the case that those who come up with the idea for an app are not themselves developers; whether you’re an entrepreneur with a great idea for a fitness app or a company that wants ...
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Over the course of your Startup life, you will hear many startup terms which might leave you scratching your head, or nodding along with a conversation, without perhaps really even knowing what is being discussed.  A/B testing might well be one of these terms.   Like all such pieces of technical jargon, this one isn’t nearly as complicated as it first appears. A/B Testing T...
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Last week we featured the‘One Planet Ventures’ Enterprise Incubator programme, a programme open to all entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs aged 18-30 living in London. And now in return (one good deed deserves another after all) the good folk at One Planet Ventures are sharing with us some thoughts on the importance of testing as a startup. Over to Lauren Turner from the team ...
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To celebrate the launch of their new website & e-commerce solution for startups, we have teamed up with the folks at Jump Marketing to give one lucky Startacus member a tailor made website package (with or without e-commerce) worth up to £5000, absolutely free.  A fantastic way to boost your online presence! To set the scene of this magnificent prize, we had a chat with Mat Norbury...
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You could argue that there are only two kinds of businesses – the ones that spring up because there’s a demand, meaning that these enterprises already exist and the innovators, who’ve created something or developed an improvement on something, and just need to get their idea out there. So, if you are looking to start a business selling your new innovative product we’ve pro...
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