Construction firms are under acute pressure from external market forces, with some only just keeping their heads above the water. As well as traditional market solutions, tech startups could provide a way to stay afloat.
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Haman Manak
22.12.2023
Maddyness has partnered with Focal, the platform that is reinventing the fundraising model for startups to bring investor sentiment to this week's Maddymoney.
22.12.2023
New research reveals that money isn’t always the biggest motivator when it comes to people looking for their dream jobs, with nearly half of adults (46%) saying that working for an ethical business is more important to them than getting a higher salary.
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Paul Ferretti
22.12.2023
Throughout the ages, we’ve had seismic shifts in the nature of work and the skills needed. It’s happened with civilisation, industrialisation, the Web, globalisation, automation - the list goes on. The term ‘future of work’ therefore, is not a specific issue that we need to engage and be done with; the nature of work is constantly evolving and we would be wise to always have the future of work in mind so we can adapt.
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Farley Thomas
21.12.2023
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Hugo Cannon, founder of Velloy, about building a business to offer premium member-only benefits, expansion into the US market and the human desire to get the most out of life.
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Hugo Cannon
21.12.2023
Paul Ferretti spoke to Rupert Staines, Co-Founder and CEO of Vector, and Gavin Sheppard, CEO of Pinwheel, about sustainibility, ditching carbon offsettings and the delicate balance within our oceans.
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Paul Ferretti
21.12.2023
As part of our quick founder questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Martijn de Wever, Founder and CEO of Floww about addressing the challenges of fundraising, VC fund management and going against conventions.
20.12.2023
Generative AI has the potential to reshape entire industries and how they operate, and financial services stand out as uniquely poised for AI-driven transformation. McKinsey & Company calls generative AI the next frontier for productivity, estimating that analyzing natural language text — a core generative AI use case — accounts for an average of 25% of the time people spend in any given enterprise.
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Chandini Jain
20.12.2023
As one third of the UK’s “golden triangle” – a cluster of innovation with Oxford and London – Cambridge has a long legacy as one of the UK’s most important cities in terms of education, innovation and trade.
In partnership with British Embassy in Paris
19.12.2023
As part of our quick founder questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Katie Hanton, cofounder of Baboodle about the benefits of renting vs buying, reducing the waste associated with babies and the power of word of mouth growth.
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Katie Hanton
19.12.2023
It’s an unfortunate truth that war breeds innovation. WWII was the source of many technologies and scientific advances that form part of our everyday lives - from microwave ovens, computers and quantum physics to blood transfusions, skin grafts and penicillin - it would be difficult to imagine a world without such technology.
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Andriy Dovbenko
19.12.2023
Through the lens of a hiring perspective, the UK’s rapidly growing technology industry can be seen as a victim of its own success. Growth at pace has led to a shortage of skilled tech talent here, especially in areas such as software development, data science, and cybersecurity, according to new salary data.
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Kirstie McDermott
19.12.2023
Ethics, Regulation, AI, Climate... VC and startups share their most exciting predictions for the year 2024, filled with promises and new challenges.
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Maddyness UK
18.12.2023
‘Tis the season… that time of year for reflection about the health of our careers. It can be a difficult task, an imponderable. Is my career where I want it to be? A little like that other seasonal tradition of debating the criteria for the best Christmas movies of all time.
18.12.2023
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