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Innovation Management Firm That Goes Straight To The Source Nails New Investment From Angels Including Brent Hoberman

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In today’s ‘disrupted’ business environment, “idea management” is all the rage. It’s all about management working with their employees to build better, happier companies, where everybody is given a chance to express their opinion, and it is listened to. Sideways6 are London based start-up at the forefront of this movement. The firm announced today that …

Dugout – The Football Platform For Fans – Capitalises On Social Media Trends To Launch Its First Ever App

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The world belongs to millennials more and more each day, and that is fantastic news for social media sites and online advertisers, because millennials love to consume media and they are big online spenders. But there’s even better news for online media companies such as Dugout – “the world’s first digital platform supported by the …

6 Of The Best? Force Over Mass Showcases Portfolio Companies at Michelin House Including TechCrunch Disrupt Winners, Seenit

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2016 was a damp squib in so many ways, for reasons we hardly need to go into here. But despite some reports to the contrary, tech, and more specifically investing in early stage, London based tech startups flourished last year, insists the CEO of one of the UK’s most prolific early stage tech investors. Martijn …

This Haggerston Entrepreneur Is Working With Ucreate To Help Us All Drive A New Car Every 6 Months

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Toby Kernon has owned 19 cars in 20 years, he says. During that period he has switched models, makes, and styles, for a host of different reasons; a growing family, a new job, a change of scenery. But the best experience he had was an arrangement with Ford, who delivered a new car to him …

Clozer Offers Businesses Route To New Markets With Local Sales Team

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Businesses seeking to expand in the New Year have been given a new route to market thanks to dedicated sales platform Clozer. The innovative sharing economy website gives ambitious firms access to a local sales team anywhere in the world that can deliver results by converting prospective customers to firm clients thanks to their sales …

Get Your Free Desk At The Trampery Republic – London’s Newest, And Hottest Space For Creatives?

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London-based bootstrapping entrepreneurs tired of skipping meals and working out of cramped, expensive offices with questionable hygiene are being given a chance to secure one of twenty free desks at a luxurious new co-working space next to East India DLR station, with 9,00 square feet of workspace, and a wrap-around roof terrace offering spectacular views …

Karhoo’s Administrator Appoints Lambert Smith Hampton As Firm To Sell The Shut Down Taxi-Fleet’s Assets

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Specialist property and asset consultants Lambert Smith Hampton have been appointed by the administrators of Karhoo to market what remains of the business and its assets. Karhoo is said to have raised as much as $250 million from investors including Panorama Point Partners, and was headquartered in New York, having been founded in London 18 …

The Truth Behind UK’s Love Affair With Online Shopping – It’s Driven By Golden Oldies, Not Millennials!

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It’s official – the UK loves shopping online! According to recent research from Colliers International, the Real Estate services company headquartered in London, the UK is by some distance the largest European market for e-commerce. Collier’s research reveals that Brits spend around £130bn every year shopping online – in fact, Brits, alongside the Japanese and …

Love Stand-Up? Love TV? Then You’ll Love “Stand Up Comedy Focused Online Video On Demand Platform” Next Up!

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Fans of TV could be forgiven for thinking there were only a handful of funny people in the UK – Frank Skinner, Michael McIntyre, Graham Norton, that bloke off the GoCompare ads who wears a tux and sings opera, the cast of “Have I got News For You” and that guy who is travelling around …

Jobbio Bags €5m From NFJ Capital, Balderton Chief To Fund Ambitious Expansion Plans For Recruitment Disruptor

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A VC firm, NFJ Capital, that counts Dollar Shave Club, the subscription shaving start-up that was recently acquired for more than $1bn by Unilever, amongst its portfolio has led a $5m Series A funding round into Jobbio, a disruptive career marketplace based in Dublin, with offices in East London and New York. …

New Survey From Capita & Intel Reveals ICT Decision Makers Are Struggling To Understand, Let Alone Implement, The Latest Tech Trends

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Given the column inches it gets, you could be forgiven for thinking that tech, and especially tech of a “disruptive” persuasion, has become such a vital part of any organisations’ overall business strategy, the role of an enterprise’s IT and Communications Technology (ICT) decision makers has never been more vital. A decade ago all an …

SaveTheHighStreet.org Wants To Empower A Nation Of Shopkeepers & Win The Public Back Using Disruptive Digital Techniques

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Britain’s high streets are under threat, says the SaveTheHighStreet movement; the answer, they say, lies in embracing disruptive digital techniques and enlisting the help of social influencers. High street influencers from bloggers and local councils to social media celebrities, town planners and “retail thought leaders” are being invited to join a crusade aimed at creating …

YAC-ity YAC – Will You Talk Back? New Networking App For Socially Elite Coming To London Scores How Popular You Are, And Tells People

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Ever wanted to find the most popular (or least popular) person in the club; thanks to YAC, you’ll soon be able to, says its founders It’s not the first time the idea of a popularity / power based app has been floated (Klout, anyone?), but this time, says Ales Zivkovic founder of social networking and …

Where There’s A Wine There’s A Way; Baacco Founders Building The “Amazon Of Wine” Believe They Have The Bottle To Build A Unicorn

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The Baacco team; from l-r Federico, Tai, Raj and Cosmin – no that’s not a wine cellar, it’s the Mass Challenge offices. “One day we believe we can turn this business into a Unicorn”. It’s a grandiose claim but one that Tai Alegbe, co-founder of Baacco, the online marketplace for UK wine merchants, is not …

Company update; Motivii Making Strides; Start-up Delivering Real Time Employee Motivation Scores To Managers And Organisations

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Simply put, I love Motivii! In a world where there is lots of data but sometimes little learning, Motivii focuses me on the important stuff. That is: how is my teams feeling, what’s the key stuff on their plate, and how can I help them“ Henry Matthews –  Co-Lead Marketing Transformation, Bank of Scotland “Motivii   …

Can an “Uber for Couriers” App make the difference for London’s Delivery Drivers?

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7 years ago Alexander Gale and his Swedish wife, who had married in London, returned to her hometown of Gothenburg with a view to settling down and starting a family. At first he found it almost impossible to find work, so eventually he decided to take matters into his own hands: “All I had were …