Look, even small business owners have a lot to do. There are regular working hours in the office, working hours at home, networking events, conferences, and meetings to attend. Here are the best apps that will help you get the maximum out of your busy days.

Putting the finance team of any business at the centre of its strategy could help it become more resilient in tough times. Grace Child, senior product marketer at business software and services company Advanced, explains why.

Marketplace rules have changed dramatically, and they’ll continue to change quickly. Make no mistake, running a business that monetises someone else’s output will always be a slippery slope.

Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This Monday, we look how the ambitious ideas in Bill Gates' new book How To Avoid A Climate Disaster have been received.

Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd, revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.

Anyone who launches a business naturally wants others to know about it. No one wants their company to be the best kept secret or it’ll never grow to its full potential. This challenge is something I see every day, with new innovations and solutions being unveiled as often as the moon.

Don’t be fooled by catalysts masquerading as permanent economic shifts. I want to talk to you big-thinkers and you trend-chasers for this post. Because I’m one of you, and I want you to avoid the mistakes I’ve made and I keep seeing others make. Tread lightly around those market bubbles.

Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This Monday, we look into news surrounding bitcoin – which recently hit the $50,000 per coin European trading landmark.

Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd, revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.

2020 was a chaotic year. The global pandemic changed the way we live our lives: how we socialise, use services, predict marketing trends, and attract customers to our business. However, while there’s been unprecedented upheaval, we’ve still seen some developments in the world of marketing trends COVID-19 has not touched that could make a massive difference to your business in 2021. The landscape of marketing trends is constantly evolving, with what worked one year suddenly becoming a waste of time the next. Why are marketing trends important? Because they are the most effective way of reaching potential customers. We’re going to look at some of the most likely success stories of 2021, letting you know which marketing trends you should start investigating right now.

No one becomes a product manager overnight, not even a project manager. Transitioning from a project- to a product-focused career is a process that is necessary for one to keep up with rapidly changing consumers and markets. Most project managers switch to product management because they want to be in a more strategic role and have a more significant impact on their company. Also, they may feel that bringing products into the market can be exciting and fun. Good news is, it is not a complete change altogether.

The world was not ready for the iPhone in 1993 when Apple launched it’s ill-fated Newton. I have a huge amount of empathy for the founder who is too early, too narrow, or too buggy. One of my startup war stories is about the company three of us founded that was YouTube a couple years before YouTube. We had the tech and a product and revenue, but we couldn’t get the funding. It was our own fault, because we were too green to position and pitch it properly.

Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week, we look at Bumble's knockout IPO.

Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd, revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.