There are many perks to being self-employed, but the benefits that are a given when working for someone else – including a pension – can be sorely missed.
20.01.2021
Over the next ten years, businesses will need to green up to avoid becoming redundant. Tuesday saw the launch of a new sustainability-centric arm of corporate innovation leader The Bakery.
20.01.2021
The UK is a great place for incubating tech startups. But despite the obvious entrepreneurial talent and market opportunity, we’ve still never managed to produce a Facebook, or a YouTube, or a Tesla. Why?
20.01.2021
Almost two men die of skin cancer for every one woman – a statistic that’s forecast to double over the next 20 years. Maddyness interviewed Billy Boulos, cofounder of LifeJacket, the skincare brand trying to get men to take life outside, while taking UV protection seriously.
20.01.2021
The tech industry has the most open job roles in Northern Ireland – ahead of healthcare and nursing, and accounting and finance – with tech workers on average earning £10,000 more compared to non-tech workers.
19.01.2021
Don’t fall for the lure of the billion-dollar IPO. If you are, like me, watching all these jaw-dropping entrances into the public markets and looking for common denominators that you can apply to building your own company, there aren’t any.
19.01.2021
First came pioneering PayPal, but innovation in the payments sector has never stood still and today many fintechs compete with and win market share from traditional financial institutions in this area.
19.01.2021
Beauty marketing campaigns would have you believe that everyone covets straight, smooth hair, but that simply isn’t the case. The Wild Curl has been created specifically for curly hair, a market the brand believes has been neglected for too long.
19.01.2021
Restrictions over the past 10 months have meant that most of us have spent more time at home. This has led many to reorganise and purge unwanted items, but with charity shops closed and unnecessary trips to the Post Office avoided, how else can we rid ourselves of our unloved fashion?
18.01.2021
UK downloads of health apps have substantially increased during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications (ORCHA) report shows.
18.01.2021
Business relationships are undeniably valuable: Whenever companies are venturing into fast-growth markets, the #1 request we receive is to make introductions to relevant people. We call this service, “business matchmaking.”
18.01.2021
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This Monday, we share the fallout of WhatsApp’s privacy changes from the business, finance and tech sectors.
18.01.2021
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With #QVCS Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we interview Lucanus Polagnoli, Managing Partner at Calm/Storm.
18.01.2021
Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd, revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.
16.01.2021