Natural ADHD qualities like curiosity, creativity, and courage can make brilliant entrepreneurs, which is maybe why we’re 300% more likely to start our own businesses.
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Leanne Maskell
11.05.2023
Compliance with regulatory requirements is fundamental to protecting businesses from data breaches. Understanding and adhering to those requirements means putting processes in place, from staff education to using the right tools to fight fraudsters. Doing so can help businesses keep their data safe and avoid reputational damage and hefty fines.
10.05.2023
Whilst AI content creation is grabbing the attention of everyone, everywhere, even kindly putting the metaverse on the back burner, a welcome break for us all, established corporations are treading carefully. We all know that deep within their archaic buildings there is a team not dissimilar from the IT Crowd playing, tinkering and experimenting with AI, but to unleash it publicly will be, for the most part, considered a risk.
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Maddyness UK
10.05.2023
We've all seen the headlines. That Open AI's watershed breakthrough spells the end of the copywriter. That it's going to radicalise content creation as we know it, making things easier, quicker and more efficient. But what about the inherent risk of over-saturation of the same type of content and its impact on SEO? Here, Richard Hayes, search director at Catalyst tells you everything you need to know about harnessing the best of generative AI while ensuring an organic visibility advantage over the competition.
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Richard Hayes
10.05.2023
With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we interview Taos Edmondson, Principal at dmg ventures.
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Taos Edmondson
09.05.2023
Fintech, or financial technology, has been one of the fastest-growing areas in the startup ecosystem in recent years. However, we’re currently seeing a significant drop-off in funding across all startups, with the fintech sector suffering most of all – fintech funding dropped faster than any other sector in Q1 2023, down 83% from the same period in 2022.
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Ritam Gandhi
09.05.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Ariana Alexander-Sefre, Co-CEO and Founder SPOKE about the power of intentionally created music, secret and mindful gigs and the importance of normalising emotional literacy and articulation.
09.05.2023
Getting funding for your startup is hard enough. Even at the best of times founders need to prove themselves and their product worthy of thousands, even millions of pounds of other peoples’ hard earned cash. Having the next best thing might open the door to funding, having the right network, having met the right people and being part of an often closed/close-nit community also helps far too much. Sad but often true.
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Marianne Lehnis
09.05.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Katy Cottam, Founder and CEO at Luna Daily about connecting women to their entire bodies, destigmatising intimate care and building sustainable, profitable global growth.
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Katy Cottam
08.05.2023
Raising equity investment is a challenge for any business, but especially for underrepresented groups, the obstacles far outweigh the positive return they receive. In order for this to change there ought to be a recognition of these obstacles and a commitment from equity investors to make the change. Here equity expert and founder of Focused For Business Hatty Fawcett shares her tips for how equity investors can support underrepresented founders and close the gap.
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Hatty Fawcett
08.05.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Joseph Black, cofounder of UniTaskr about building a platform that provides students with opportunities to build up work experience relative to the specific industry they want to work in.
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Joseph Black
06.05.2023
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
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Maddyness UK
05.05.2023
The investment industry has experienced a significant shift in recent years, with the online retail brokerage platforms transforming the ways in which people invest their money.
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Stavros Lambouris
05.05.2023
According to research by Atomico, more than 200,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2022. With challenging conditions continuing throughout 2023, how are startups reacting?
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Kirstie Pickering
04.05.2023
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