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Martin Sandhu, Founder of digital agency nuom, shares his four tips every startup founder needs to know before scaling up. Whether you’re a start-up or a well-established company, owning and running a business can be all-consuming. To really make your mark on an industry, and get a new business venture off the ground, it can take hours of dedication and guts. Founder of digital agency ...
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As we reach the close of 2019 and prepare to enter a new decade, Gabriela Hersham, Founder & CEO of Huckletree, shares what she has learned working alongside entrepreneurs that have successfully scaled-up... The new year will see startups assess a wealth of opportunities to grow and expand. Over the past decade, there have been cautionary tales of growth ambitions getting tangled up with ego....
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Start-up to scale-up! Considering international growth? Markus Stripf, CEO and co-founder of Spoon Guru shares his top tips on how to scale up and take your tech business global!  With the Office for National Statistics reporting that the number of registered firms in the UK has risen to 2.72m, it’s evident that start-up Britain is well and truly alive. From cool challenger b...
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The UK leads Europe and are fourth in the world for scaleup investment after US, China and India, according to the Tech Nation Report for 2019.  Tech Nation, a leading scaleup-network for UK entrepreneurs, has announced the release of its 2019 Tech Nation Report with data from partners including Companies House, PitchBook, GitHub, the OECD and Streetbees, and in associati...
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UK-wide scaling startups take note - Upscale, a free programme care of Tech Nation is aimed at further accelerating the growth of your business and supporting your business against the growth challenges you are more than likely facing. Applications close 14th November '18, so apply asap!  Upscale is an established scaleup growth programme aimed at accelerating the growth of the UK’s le...
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PwC's SCALE programmes for fast growth, disruptive scaleups who want to shape the future through scalable innovation, kick off in October. We took a look... PwC's SCALE programmes are aiming to bring together fast-growing and ambitious scale-ups with the world’s biggest brands to allows both sides to learn from the other and to build commercial opportunities. The 10-12 week sector or l...
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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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Starting a business and building a startup is hard work - a bumpy road full of challenges to overcome. But overcome them you have. You have attained product/market fit, you are profitable, your brand is known, you have completed the first stage of the journey to the huge success you’ve always dreamed of. Now you want to be more profitable, make your brand known far and wide, attain greater s...
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Without scalability, your tech startup is doomed to remain a small operation - perhaps even simply doomed. If you go into it knowing that it isn’t scalable and that you don’t need it to be, that’s totally one thing; however, if you go into a tech startup not thinking about scalability full stop...doom! That said, it’s unlikely that you’ll willingly have little to no ...
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