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Tyl surveyed UK business owners to find out what Corporate Social Responsibility means to them and how this translates into business success. New research by Tyl has found a large majority of UK companies are not well placed to address major health, wellbeing and equality challenges. Despite studies proving that companies who demonstrate a commitment to protecting and empowering employees can s...
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Latest research from iwoca reveals that COVID restrictions continue to have a huge impact on SMEs in the UK New research from small business lender iwoca suggests that although the initial easing of restrictions has helped recovery for some SMEs, around a third are still sacrificing customer numbers with existing COVID restrictions in place. The price of being ‘COVID-secure’ With ...
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MedAll launches an innovative International Virtual Medical Conference to help medics share and collaborate on important research during lockdown.In the current Covid-19 environment, now more than ever, healthcare professionals need to be collaborating and sharing their research findings.  Typically medics present, discuss and debate their latest findings at Conferences. However, in the curr...
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Lessons from Goldilocks and the three bears and why in a competitive market place, ‘just right’ doesn’t go far enough! Entrepreneur, Alex Jenkins explains why... Many people argue identifying the gap in the market, or your unique selling point (USP) is the holy grail of business success, while others will stress it is all about drive and determination. To some it’s a ...
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Overwatch Research is aiming to transform how scientific researchers manage their experiments while collaborating with their colleagues through open data and intelligent services. Currently, billions of pounds are going to waste each year because less than half of medical studies undertaken in the preclinical stage are reproducible in humans. The categories of this irreproducibility are biologica...
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Lisa Forde, Director of Event Stationery company Dotty About Paper writes for Startacus on changing your brand name as a business and shares her personal experience of doing just that.. "Changing the name of my online stationery company, The Card Gallery, to Dotty about Paper was an exciting yet daunting move. When I launched the business in 2004, the name fit the company well. However,...
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Marketest is a leading online market research company, who conduct market research for existing businesses and startups launching new products or services as well as academic institutions. They previously wrote a fab article for Startacus on the importance of market research and now they share some invaluable thoughts on why you really need to test out your business idea first before launch...
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If you have ever transcribed so much as a single quote from a pitch video or the like, you will know that it can be both trickier and more time consuming than it first may appear. You probably had to play those 2 or 3 seconds a few times, clicking back too far in the video and then not far enough, before you were sure you’d got the simple sentence down word for word. Imagine then transcribin...
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Do you have a clever business idea but don’t know where to start? Well, you’re in luck, the folks over at Marketest have officially opened up registration for their Business Startup Competition and you can win the chance to test your business idea and get some feedback from potential customers! Marketest are a successful online market research company who have over 10 years experience...
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The UK is experiencing a self-employment boom, with over 4.6 million Brits now opting to be their own boss. What has prompted this shift? Why are so many choosing a freelance career over the security of employment? And what help and advice is there to support this decision? Our friends over at Crunch Accountancy created a short film that explores the highs and lows of freelancing. Over to Sohpie...
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