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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 par " 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 par " 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 par " 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 par " 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 par " 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 par " Mathias Léopoldie
En partenariat avec The Realistic Optimist
05.06.2024
REALISTIC OPTIMIST It's too early to judge African VC
Redefining finance: How embedded finance is set to help banks to resume their original mission — to the benefit of startups and SMEs
Europe is in a lending crunch, and SMEs are bearing the brunt of it. Although SMEs make up the backbone of the European economy, accounting for a staggering 64.4% of EU employment, 73% of SMEs say they can’t even secure a meeting with their bank and that a quarter of all SMEs say that lenders don’t understand their business. There’s really a quite simple explanation to this – the typical SME isn’t the ideal loan candidate for the typical high-street bank, and hasn’t been for a long time.
Opinion par " Olle Lundin
05.06.2024
Redefining finance: How embedded finance is set to help banks to resume their original mission — to the benefit of startups and SMEs
Thinking of doing PoCs with big brands? Let's rethink that...
As a founder, there's a certain allure to landing big brands as early customers. It feels like a major validation that your product has mass appeal. Many founders, myself included, assume the natural path ‘in’ is through a pilot or proof of concept (PoC). Get your foot in, show them how fabulous you are and boom - banging the door down for more, am I right?
Opinion par " Dan Bowyer
04.06.2024
Thinking of doing PoCs with big brands? Let's rethink that...
Why more SMEs are hiring a part-time CPO
Chief Product Officers aren’t just found in big businesses anymore. These experienced specialists lead innovation across a company’s entire portfolio of products and services. They guide and execute the product development strategy from idea to execution with a customer-centric approach delivering revenue and growth.
Opinion par " Sara Daw
03.06.2024
Why more SMEs are hiring a part-time CPO
Climate Fintech’s scorecard: Germany goes top but Europe beating the US is the real story
Once a niche off-shoot of the fintech scene, climate fintech - simply understood as fintechs enabling decarbonisation - has emerged as an established and much-needed global sector. Attracting annual investments of $2.3B in 2023, climate fintechs are providing vital solutions businesses urgently need to support their climate transition
Opinion par " Paul Morgenthaler
30.05.2024
Climate Fintech’s scorecard: Germany goes top but Europe beating the US is the real story
Four tried and tested PR strategies for deep tech startup success
Deep tech describes technological innovations at the cutting-edge of science and engineering. These early-stage businesses often have the underlying potential to overcome major industry challenges, and even flip an entire space on its head if successful.
Opinion par " Connor Mitchell
29.05.2024
Four tried and tested PR strategies for deep tech startup success
The innovation ceiling: Breaking through barriers to diverse talent and potential
Despite being worth over $1T, having more unicorns than Europe and employing over 2M people, the hard truth of UK tech is the innovation ceiling. We’ve arguably created the most rivalled ecosystem on this side of the Atlantic, but the underutilisation of our resources means there is a real risk of losing that status.
Opinion par " Emma Obanye
28.05.2024
Emma Obanye
Lessons to learn from victims of fake job ads
Job hunting can feel like navigating a maze – and is often a full-time job itself. With many organisations conducting yet more rounds of layoffs, more people are seeking their next opportunity.
Opinion par " Dr Jessica Barker MBE
27.05.2024
Lessons to learn from victims of fake job ads
How AI is curing many companies’ ESG headaches, or not
We have many problems in the sustainability industry. I remember the days when finding data was like going on a scavenger hunt that often resulted in nothing. We used search engines to look for specific data and statistics, but the ESG specific terminology that can be used by different industries and in different contexts, usually resulted in irrelevant search results.
Opinion par " Ildiko Almasi Simsic
24.05.2024
How AI is curing many companies’ ESG headaches, or not

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