This Is A Storey All About Haggerston…

This Is A Storey All About Haggerston…

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34,000 sq. ft. of eco-friendly “scale-up” office space is being developed by flexible workspace brand Storey and local architects Waugh Thistleton at 6 Orsman Road and tenants are signing up fast. We think Haggerston-ites will be impressed. With noisy neighbours like Shoreditch and Dalston it’s no wonder that Haggerston is seen as one of London’s ...

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Haggerston Times @ FashHack -The Retail Store Of The Future: Too Much Data, Or Not Enough?

Haggerston Times @ FashHack -The Retail Store Of The Future: Too Much Data, Or Not Enough?

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Haggerston Times made its way to Farfetch HQ last week for another special evening in the company of Marina Atarova’s FashHack devotees. Marina, who jetted off to Lisbon to help run FarFetch’s tech startup accelerator, Dream Assembly, shortly after the show, was running her sixth Fashhack event of the year.  An intoxicating, original blend of ...

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Guest Post: What Is Venture Enablement & Why Do I Believe It’s The Difference Between Success & Failure

Guest Post: What Is Venture Enablement & Why Do I Believe It’s The Difference Between Success & Failure

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Peter Rossi, Founder & Co-CEO at Equals Collective, writes... For the last 20 years I’ve designed, built and operated technology for several different companies; with a focus on funding, launching and scaling them over the past seven years. Keeping an eye on why we’re delivering a project is of utmost importance to me; is it to win an F1 ...

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Guest Post: Technology Investors Can Shine A Light In Uncertain Times

Guest Post: Technology Investors Can Shine A Light In Uncertain Times

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Angel Investment Network, the global platform founded in London in 2004 to connect startups looking for funding with investors, has revealed its ‘State of the Angel Investment Nation’ findings for 2018, based on data from more than 100,000 businesses and 30,000 angel investors.  Oliver Jones (Head of Marketing) talks through the key trends picked up from ...

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Do Sustainability in Fashion Directives Come Straight From The Top? FarFetch Lays It Bare On Behalf Of Luxe

Do Sustainability in Fashion Directives Come Straight From The Top? FarFetch Lays It Bare On Behalf Of Luxe

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The platform that sells you your favourite Luxury brands wants to make them last, too. For reasons of sustainability… Who buys Luxury? The Rich? Naturally. The Aspirational? Certainly. The foolish? Quite often. The rest of us? In global-environmental-damage-inflicting amounts, it turns out. Wealthy fashion-lovers are people who love to live life by their own rules, ...

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Farfetch & Fashhack: Innovation In Luxury Fashion; A Night For The Ages In A High-End, Hipster Paradise

Farfetch & Fashhack: Innovation In Luxury Fashion; A Night For The Ages In A High-End, Hipster Paradise

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You might imagine that the world of high-end fashion; from the Beckhams to the Burberry’s, Mulberry’s to Manolo Blahnik; is a little geek-phobic...could there really be a place for unruly, disruptive, technology in such refined company? Indeed there could, and its hipster home is in the heart of Old Street, London. One week ago the ...

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Investing in a home in your twenties

Investing in a home in your twenties

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It may seem like a far-fetched idea for anyone these days to look for a home in their twenties. With an over stretched housing market and shortages up and down the country, buying a first home has been pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for young people and many of us have no choice but ...

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Is U.S. Sports Betting An Investment Opportunity?
An App That Can Help You Live Longer? My Journey Into The World Of Longevity

An App That Can Help You Live Longer? My Journey Into The World Of Longevity

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  Andrew Ahachinsky, founder of Eterly, the first health and fitness app built by longevity experts, explains how he persuaded first himself, and then others, that aging can be treated, and maybe even cured When you are young, people; your parents, teachers, first boss; tell you, “you have the rest of your life ahead of you”. ...

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Digitising Real Estate Transactions; The Future Of The Property Industry; A Guest Post From Settled Founder Gemma Young

Digitising Real Estate Transactions; The Future Of The Property Industry; A Guest Post From Settled Founder Gemma Young

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  Gemma Young is CEO and Co-Founder of acclaimed disruptive property transaction platform Settled Property is our most important asset class, it's also our most emotional asset. Therefore, getting our home sale or purchase right is not just a big deal for consumers, it's a big deal for the wider UK economy. Unlike other industries (travel, music, ...

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Exclusive! Global M Founders Open Up About A Different Approach To Recruitment

Exclusive! Global M Founders Open Up About A Different Approach To Recruitment

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It’s always great to grab a morning coffee with company founders in the plush surroundings of the Hoxton Hotel, first thing on Monday morning – the next best thing to steaks and red wine in one of the Hoxton Grill restaurant booths 12 hours later in the day! The Hoxton has serious disruptive tech credentials, ...

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Tech Firm Launches Idea Beer To Get Creative Juices Flowing
Jackie Fast On Sponsorship: Entrepreneur & Best Selling Author Reveals The Secrets Behind Getting Bang For Your Buck

Jackie Fast On Sponsorship: Entrepreneur & Best Selling Author Reveals The Secrets Behind Getting Bang For Your Buck

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  In the latest extracts from our exclusive serialisation of Jackie Fast's best-selling book, the bible of the sponsorship game: Pinpoint: How Challenging The Norm Is The Only Route to Success In Selling Sponsorship, Jackie discusses how the industry has metamorphosed from one where big brands simply slapped their logos on every available space to ...

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Exclusive! Haggerston Times Serialises Extracts From Jackie Fast’s Best Selling Book “Pinpoint – How Challenging The Norm Is The Only Route To Success In Selling Sponsorship”

Exclusive! Haggerston Times Serialises Extracts From Jackie Fast’s Best Selling Book “Pinpoint – How Challenging The Norm Is The Only Route To Success In Selling Sponsorship”

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Last year, 5 years after building up her company Slingshot Sponsorship in true "bedroom to boardroom" style, as she puts it, Jackie Fast sold the business to a Nasdaq listed Venture Capital firm based out of Singapore. The transition from company founder to employee has been a challenging one, Jackie reflects, but she has used ...

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SportonSpec’s Night Of Sporting Discovery at House of Sport; Visceral, Unmissable, & Now Available In London!

SportonSpec’s Night Of Sporting Discovery at House of Sport; Visceral, Unmissable, & Now Available In London!

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The world of sport is full of iconic images; think Pele swapping shirts with Bobby Moore in 1970; Torvill & Dean’s Bolero at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984; any one of one hundred images of Muhammad Ali standing over his beaten opponent, shaking his gloved fist. When sports fans think about these kinds ...

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Who’s Up For A Winter Ski Adventure? 2 Fun Loving Entrepreneurs May Have Just The Package For You!

Who’s Up For A Winter Ski Adventure? 2 Fun Loving Entrepreneurs May Have Just The Package For You!

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Now that the summer has well and truly departed, and daylight-saving time is beginning to rear its gloomy head, thoughts are inevitably turning to winter breaks. Have you decided where you’ll be getting away from it all this winter? Maybe skiing is your thing? Adventure? Socialising? It is? Good. Read on! Back in 1996, 2 entrepreneurs who ...

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Exclusive! A Studio Of Our Own Interviews Adam Sopher of Joe & Seph’s Gourmet Popcorn

Exclusive! A Studio Of Our Own Interviews Adam Sopher of Joe & Seph’s Gourmet Popcorn

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This content is brought to you exclusively by A Studio Of Our Own: the independent creative agency that believes in the power of being nice, being brave and being honest. How do you build a category that doesn’t exist and convince one of the country’s leading high-end department stores to stock your product? Adam Sopher, one ...

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Exclusive! A Studio Of Our Own Interviews Just Bee Founders & Dragons Den Stars Joe Harper & Andy Sugden

Exclusive! A Studio Of Our Own Interviews Just Bee Founders & Dragons Den Stars Joe Harper & Andy Sugden

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This content is brought to you exclusively by A Studio Of Our Own: the independent creative agency that believes in the power of being nice, being brave and being honest. One sunny day in his beekeeper Dad’s garden, Joe Harper and his best friend Andy Sugden had a eureka moment, spotting a gap in the market ...

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Exclusive! Salience Interviews Peter Dowds – Co-Founder at Elder
Exclusive: A Studio Of Our Own Interview With Maxine Thompson; Founder Of Polka Pants

Exclusive: A Studio Of Our Own Interview With Maxine Thompson; Founder Of Polka Pants

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This content is brought to you exclusively by A Studio Of Our Own: the independent creative agency that believes in the power of being nice, being brave and being honest. Having experienced uncomfortable, unflattering uniform and unisex chefs trousers first hand, Maxine Thompson founded PolkaPants to provide female chefs with simple, robust and functional work wear. With rave ...

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