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This Is A Storey All About Haggerston…

Posted on 5 min read 6575 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 7934 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

Posted on 4 min read 7647 views

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 7728 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 8574 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 …