At some point, every business needs to make a transition from relying on its founder to employing a CEO. It’s true that some businesses have made the transition from founder to CEO without switching captains: Think Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, or Mark Zuckerberg. …

The world of innovation and entrepreneurship feeds on information. For startup and scaleup founders the world over, being the first to have access to innovation can mean the difference between being first to market or a follower, between unicorn potential and straggler status.

That’s why most entrepreneurs read. …

One highly successful technology entrepreneur once described to me the role of a founder as consisting of two things, and two things only:

“Hiring people and ensuring cash flow.”

Though hiring will certainly make or break the company in the longer run, cash is indispensable for the company even getting…

In this complete (really) guide we’ve tried to round up every single UK startup and scale-up financing option in one compact place. With over two hundred useful links and resources, if you still are clueless about how to finance your company after reading this, it’s on you.

Developing a great…

The R&D tax credit loan is still a largely uncharted form of finance in the UK.

This guide will give you all the details you need to understand this new form of alternative finance. …

When I was a young girl and dabbling in the art and science of knitting, my grandmother instilled in me the value of “measure twice, cut once”.

She was an old lady, tormented by fears of wasting yarn by the memory communist-era shortages, but the rule made sense to me…

In this series, we do a deep dive into the success stories of companies that managed the leap from wide-eyed foal to splendid unicorn, and try to bring back 3 core ideas. …