Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood is an entrepreneur and a Champion barista. He is founder and MD of Colonna Coffee, an award-winning and innovative roastery and coffee business selling B2B and D2C. Maxwell invented and recently launched Peak Water, bringing cafe quality water filtration to your home. Maddyness caught up with Maxwell to discuss life and business in lockdown and the future.
22.06.2020
The Black Lives Matter movement has pushed facial recognition technology into the spotlight once more, with privacy concerns being overshadowed by a remerged focus on its inherent bias. Nick Finegold, Founder & CEO of Curation explores the situation and the actions of tech giants.
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Nick Finegold
22.06.2020
Whilst every day we are venturing into the unknown with COVID-19, this isn’t humanity’s first global pandemic. One area that is different to how we deal with this pandemic is the use of technology, enabling the ability to work from home. George Evripidou asks will remote working be the new normal?
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George Evripidou
18.06.2020
Following multiple encounters with Jedi founders, Caroline Franczia takes us back to Tatooine to see what lessons can be learned from these entrepreneurs (as well as C-3PO, Anakin and Yoda) and their battle with the dark side.
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Caroline Franczia
18.06.2020
Experimentation and failure are not new concepts that are unique in startup culture, we spoke with Sheona Barlow of W. L. Gore & Associates (the makers of Gore-Tex) about how a deep-rooted focus on company culture and innovation can lead to generations of success.
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Sheona Barlow
18.06.2020
Healx is an AI-powered, patient-inspired technology company, accelerating the discovery and development of rare disease treatments at scale. There are 7,000 known rare diseases that affect 350 million people across the globe but only 5% of those conditions have approved treatments. Healx’s mission is to identify and progress novel therapies for the 95% of rare diseases without approved treatment.
17.06.2020
Sertan Djelal, the owner of a digital marketing consultancy, is currently running his business out of his home office. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, he used to share an office in a coworking space. “As someone who falls into the ‘vulnerable’ category in so far as COVID-19 is concerned, at this stage, I’m not sure when or even if I’ll be comfortable enough to go back to working from a coworking space.”
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Tal Imagor
17.06.2020
Moving beyond the well-established trope that failure is key to success, Joe Procopio goes further to ask why failure is important and how the seeds of failure become of roots of success.
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Joe Procopio
16.06.2020
With COVID-19 illustrating how a virus can devastate a country, the parallels with networks and computer systems are clear. Can we apply what we’ve learnt combating COVID-19 to our digital systems?
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Dave Howell
15.06.2020
As COVID-19 continues to dominate the headlines, our Sandy Jayaraj takes the opportunity to look at how a change in consumer behaviour and a holistic view of wellbeing can have a wide-ranging benefit.
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Sandy Jayaraj
15.06.2020
Mark Pearson, Managing Partner of Fuel Ventures, an early stage seed/growth stage EIS Fund based in London, shares his journey, insight and what he looks for when investing in the most ambitious technology companies looking to navigate "The Valley of Death".
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Mark Pearson
15.06.2020
WeWork has today launched an events programme in celebration of UK Refugee Week. Hosted online and designed in collaboration with partners, UK for UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) and TERN (The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network), WeWork’s Refugee Week Events Series will be available to both WeWork members and non-members, providing a platform for stories from refugees from around the world.
15.06.2020
In 2016, The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie wrote a white paper to define what exactly is fine watchmaking with a documented methodology. Much like Sales forecasting, fine watchmaking had remained a vague idea for too long. When it comes to the sales forecasting process, similar requirements apply: talent, art and deep granularity.
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Caroline Franczia
11.06.2020
Under the pandemic, home-based working has developed from a growing trend to a necessity. As lockdown measures begin to lift, which of these measures will stick around? Robin Brown, Managing Director and technology sector coverage leader at Stephens Investment Bank, weighs in.
11.06.2020
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