news and content for techies, investors, start-ups and entrepreneurs with a focus on the "Silicon Roundabout"
news and content for techies, investors, start-ups and entrepreneurs with a focus on the "Silicon Roundabout"
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
As you may have heard, sports betting is no longer illegal in the United States. Thanks to a decision made by the Supreme Court, states are now within their rights to pass legislation that allows real money betting on sports and other public events. And while some states have already jumped aboard, it’s expected to …
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 …
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 …
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, …
A London-based tech company are hoping to inspire creativity in the workplace and innovation in the sector by launching their own limited edition ‘Idea Beer’. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
This content is brought to you exclusively by Salience, a growth marketing and innovation agency in London. At little over a year old, Elder is already taking the private home care sector by storm as a live-in care service provider with a network of 800 professional one-to-one carers in over 65 towns and cities across …
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 …
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. When Amanda Thomson launched Skinny Champagne in 2010, she created an entirely new sector in the wine market — no mean feat in an industry …
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