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The Entrepreneur Project
Entrepreneurship | Podcasts | Scaleup | Startup

The Entrepreneur Project

May 6, 2020

Tune into the first season of The Entrepreneurs Project to hear from Startup Summit 2019 speakers: founders and leaders from some of the most innovative organisations across the UK.

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Covid-19 | Economy | Future of Work | How To | Purpose-Driven Business | Sustainability

How Covid-19 can help firms reduce their emissions for good

May 4, 2020

Changes to the way businesses are operating due to COVID-19 can help shape their approaches to sustainability once this pandemic is over. Here’s how.

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Covid-19 | How To | Remote-working

Affordable Ways to Set Up an Ergonomic Workspace at Home

May 1, 2020

When we talk about increasing workplace productivity, we tend to emphasise personal betterment like maintaining motivation and keeping out distractions. We assume that the equipment we use isn’t especially important, as long as it gets the job done. But our physical wellbeing has a profound impact on the quality of our work.

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Covid-19 | Diversity | How To | People & Culture

How to get your diversity and inclusion initiatives back on track

April 30, 2020

Over the last few years, business leaders have stepped up to show their belief in the importance of diversity and inclusion by making public commitments, dedicating money and time to training and development, and making charges to a more equitable workplace. In an unexpected turn of events from the coronavirus crisis, many of these professed commitments remain unfulfilled, lost to incomplete crisis management messaging and sounding like empty talk. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

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Books | Marketing | Scaleup | Startup

📚 Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

April 29, 2020

Businesses need to innovate to survive, yet the failure rate for innovation is shockingly high. Nearly three out of four new products or services miss their revenue and profit goals — or fail entirely. Companies embark on the long and costly journey of product development hoping they’ll make money on their innovations, but not knowing if they will. It doesn’t have to be that way.This book lays out nine rules for monetizing innovations, built on the lessons Simon-Kucher & Partners has learned through conducting

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Covid-19 | How To | Marketing

An Expert Guide: How To Communicate About Covid-19

April 28, 2020

Communications expert, Ella Saltmarshe, co-founder of The Comms Lab, shares her useful top 5 tips for communicating about COVID-19.  Ella works with creative industries to use culture and communications to build a better world in the most strategic, systemic and effective ways possible.

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Economy | International | Podcasts | Purpose-Driven Business

Brave New Words

April 27, 2020

Brave New Words takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narrative shifts that led to real-world victories. From electing the dynamic Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister of New Zealand, to repealing a national ban on abortion in Ireland, to beating back right-wing race baiting in Minnesota, Anat and her guests explore what made it possible to engage the base, persuade the middle, send the naysayers packing, and

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Covid-19 | How To | Scaleup | Startup | Tech

Here’s how to quickly license and distribute your Covid-19 invention

April 24, 2020

Patents and licences may seem trivial in the midde of a crisis, but ignoring them will create problems later. Luckily some quick solutions are emerging.

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Articles | Covid-19 | Future of Work | People & Culture | Scaleup | Startup | Sustainability | Tech

How crisis-driven innovation can help your organisation

April 23, 2020

Imagine you’re flying over the Sahara Desert. Your plane runs into a sandstorm, the engines sputter and then die one by one until there’s just the sound of sand rasping against the windows. The nose dips, you feel a dreadful lurching in the pit of your stomach, the world outside the windows turns black, and you crash. Miraculously, no one is hurt. But the plane is smashed, the radios destroyed, and your last-known position was over 100 miles from anywhere.

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Articles | People & Culture

The Perks of Being a Weirdo

April 22, 2020

How not fitting in can lead to creative thinking.

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corona virus tech handbook
Covid-19 | How To | Scaleup | Startup | Tech

Coronavirus Tech Handbook

April 21, 2020

The Coronavirus Tech Handbook is a crowdsourced library for technologists, civic organisations, public and private institutions, researchers, specialists of all kinds working on responses to the pandemic. It is a rapidly evolving resource with thousands of expert contributors.

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Articles | Covid-19 | Funding | Scaleup | Startup

Fundraising in a lockdown: when, how, and managing runway

April 20, 2020

Everyone is adjusting to the ‘new normal’ – even investors. Some will be business as usual, however, it is likely that some investment funds will become more cautious and may prioritise investing into their own funds. Everyone is taking stock, and adapting at the same time and pace. Tech Nation gathered some tips from industry leaders.

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Diversity | Future of Work | How To | People & Culture

How Virtual Volunteering can Change Company Culture

April 19, 2020

These days, online support is everything. But is it accessible to everyone? The Be My Eyes community team has created a pyramid about diversity. Much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it starts with the basics: things you can do at your company to build a diversity & inclusion or CSR program that’s truly inclusive of the billions of people living with vision impairments. It starts with just making sure a consumer can get through their day, and the results –

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Covid-19 | Funding | Reports | Scaleup | Startup

Impact of Covid-19 on fundraising in Europe

April 18, 2020

This is a complete spreadsheet of (almost) every round raised in 2020, broken down by period, country, company size and more. Data compiled from Crunchase by Gonz Sanchez (Seedtable).

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Articles | Covid-19 | People & Culture | Startup

Why startups should be embracing furlough

April 17, 2020

The world is adjusting to our developing new reality and something that is very important to AAI, and all businesses, is the state of employment throughout the pandemic. Many businesses have already acted, but we know of many others in the entrepreneurial ecosystem that are understandably worried about their growth strategies and employment plans, and appear unsure of their current options. In this article, AAI highlights some other aspects of furloughing that are causing concern.

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