All Posts By Haggerston Times

This Is A Storey All About Haggerston…

Posted on 5 min read 6621 views

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 …

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

Posted on 11 min read 7957 views

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Posted on 9 min read 7754 views

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, …

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

Posted on 7 min read 8605 views

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 …

Is U.S. Sports Betting An Investment Opportunity?

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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

Posted on 8 min read 7666 views

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Exclusive! Salience Interviews Peter Dowds – Co-Founder at Elder

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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 …

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

Posted on 11 min read 7383 views

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 …