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The Power of C-Suite: Boosting Employee Wellbeing and Corporate Success
As a team leader, the single most important thing I can do is support my employees' wellbeing, motivation, and health.
Opinion by " Luke Bullen
25.06.2024
Luke Bullen
AI has reduced the barriers to bootstrapping - will VCs now get the boot?
Venture capital (VC) has served as the lifeblood of the startup ecosystem, providing the necessary funds for young companies to grow and scale. Unlike institutional investors, VCs are often more willing to take on high-risk investments, such as tech startups, providing the vital funds these companies need to hire staff, develop products, and market to customers.
Opinion by " David Kearney
21.06.2024
AI has reduced the barriers to bootstrapping - will VCs now get the boot?
What it's like being a first-time female founder at fifty
Chairing meetings in the latter stages of my NHS career, I remember being exasperated that more and more people would mutter and mumble their way through meetings. I had no idea the problem was actually mine.
Opinion by " Amanda Philpott
21.06.2024
What it's like being a first-time female founder at fifty
From investor to tenant: The role of AI in transforming the real estate experience
A stubborn sector reliant on manual processes has contributed to Europe’s housing market disarray. However, the real estate industry is finally recognising the opportunities that powerful new technologies, like AI, Machine Learning (ML), and automation, bring to the entire industry, from investors all the way down to the tenants themselves.
Opinion by " Hima Mandali
20.06.2024
From investor to tenant: The role of AI in transforming the real estate experience
Where does wellness sit within the ESG movement?
I recently read an interview in the Financial Times with Harry Hyman of Primary Health Properties, who was asked the question ‘what is your basic business philosophy?’ His response was ‘to run a business with recurring profits and a positive social impact.’
Opinion by " Leanne Spencer
20.06.2024
Where does wellness sit within the ESG movement?
Blitzscaling prioritised growth over quality for too long. It’s time to change that
At the peak of the dot-com boom, I managed a $200M venture fund. Though we didn’t have much experience as investors, we managed to get five exits from a portfolio of 27 early-stage businesses. I learned a lot of lessons. Here’s one of them.
Opinion by " Rob Bier
19.06.2024
Rob Bier
Satellite Technology is transforming climate action
No one needs to be told that the climate crisis gets more serious by the day. Every year is hotter than the last one. Extreme weather events are becoming commonplace.
Opinion by " Bogdan Gogulan
19.06.2024
Bogdan Gogulan
Recession and cost-of-living crises: A perfect time to start a business?
The COVID-19 pandemic, the fallout of Brexit, supply chain disruptions, spiralling inflation, geopolitical conflicts, rising fuel and energy prices, and a cost-of-living crisis are just some of the contributors to the UK’s widely documented economic downturn. Amidst all this external turmoil and uncertainty, the nation officially entered a recession, with the economy contracting since early 2022.
Opinion by " Dakota Murphey
18.06.2024
How to help founders tap into crowd wisdom
What’s the hardest thing about creating a new product? It’s one of the many questions founders have. To gather some views, Adam recently posted a Twitter poll to his 140,000 followers. Twenty-four hours later, we had the results.
Opinion by " Emily Kucharski
13.06.2024
How to help founders tap into crowd wisdom
The evolution of education - The future starts today
New technologies are arriving thick and fast in the education sector, switching up the conventional dynamic between student, teacher and classroom.
Opinion by " James McGowan
12.06.2024
The evolution of education - The future starts today
Would you trust AI to speak to your customers? 5 ways AI could hurt your brand voice
Artificial Intelligence has made remarkable strides in recent years, revolutionising many sectors, particularly creative industries. These AI systems, fueled by deep learning on vast datasets, have demonstrated increasingly versatile and adaptable capabilities. However, they still primarily function as tools, providing outputs to narrowly defined human queries.
Opinion by " Nell Watson
10.06.2024
Would you trust AI to speak to your customers? 5 ways AI could hurt your brand voice
Paving the way to AI-driven transformation in supply chain management with a smart data strategy
Supply chain organisations in the UK and Ireland are facing significant barriers to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) owing to challenges with collecting and analysing data.
Opinion by " Mark Holmes
07.06.2024
Mark Holmes
The psychology behind why we keep playing the lottery
Did you know we have better chances of getting hit by lightning or attacked by a bear than winning a lottery? Yet we find ourselves buying online lottery tickets or queuing at convenience stores hoping to win huge sums of money despite the odds being against us.
Opinion by " Maddyness UK
07.06.2024
The psychology behind why we keep playing the lottery
It's too early to judge African VC
Mathias Léopoldie is the co-founder of Julaya, an Ivory Coast-based startup that offers digital payment and lending accounts for African companies of all sizes. Julaya serves over 1,500 companies, processes $400M of transactions and has raised $10M in funding.
Opinion by " Mathias Léopoldie
05.06.2024
REALISTIC OPTIMIST It's too early to judge African VC

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