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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, …

Is Picking Your Next Job Really The Same As Picking Your Next Holiday?

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Rate and review is coming to the workplace. Dear sir. madam, after viewing your vacancy on Facebook, and checking our your recent Instagram Stories, I have decided that I am the right person to fill your current vacancy in the accounts department. Your employees seem to like working for you, based on their comments on …

Joe Public Can Now Register For Trendy .Art Domain – Alongside Banksy, Beyoncé, Google and Apple!

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.Art is a new top-level domain created by venture investor Ulvi Kasimov through his company UK Creative Ideas Limited (UKCI), which has an exclusive agreement with ICANN, the internet regulating body. The .Art website suggests that the domain will become “the ultimate signifier of ‘belonging’ to the art world”, and that the business model is …

Micro-Influencer Marketing Platform For Instagram Raises £3.2m

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The startup world has invested a lot of time and effort into trying to quantify the impact of so-called social media influencers, and package it up on behalf of marketers – but it would be fair to say that nobody has quite hit the jackpot. Yet. Supestar bloggers and vloggers at the very top of …

Favorey, The Services Directory Based On Recommendations From People You Trust, To Launch Mobile App

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Favorey is a new discovery app that uses the power of social recommendations to help its users find trustworthy new service providers, from tree surgeons, to key cutters. Leveraging the function that allows them to obtain a direct introduction to providers that their family or friends have used and recommended, users can request services, receive …

Ex JustEat CEO, A “Stand Out UK Entrepreneur From The Past Decade”, Joins VC Firm 83North

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One of the London tech start-up scene’s most famous faces, former Just Eat CEO David Buttress, is set to join venture capital firm 83North. Buttress joined JustEat in 2006 when the firm first started its operations in the UK, having relocated from Denmark, where the company had been founded. As CEO, Buttress led the firm …

A 3 Course Michelin Quality Feast in London With A Twist – Bring Your Favourite Plate!

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Besides the 300,000 ‘Frenchies” Living in London, it’s an often-forgotten fact that the name of the Paris founded startup disrupting home dining by bringing tailored experiences (and top quality chefs) to people’s kitchen’s, La Belle Assiette, literally means “the beautiful plate”. So, what better way to remind everyone of this fact than by staging a …

Young President’s Organisation To Host Global Fintech Summit During London Tech Week

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London Tech Week is a little more than a month away and unsurprisingly, Fintech will be top of the agenda. With the industry subject to constant flux, as new technologies are developed almost every day, The Global Fintech Summit, which takes place between the 8th and 12th of May, is likely to be one of …

London Based Forex Training Firm Investoo Continues Acquisition Spree With Purchase of Broker Comparison Site

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Investoo Group, the London-based start-up that aims to become “one of the biggest lead generation companies in the Forex and retail investment industry”, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired 100ForexBrokers.com. 100ForexBrokers.com was launched in 2012 and has become one of the world’s biggest Forex broker comparison sites, with more than 60,000+ unique visitors per …

New London Startup Is Here To Tackle Your Subscription Woes

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“Why own anything any-more?”  ask fans of Subscription-as-a-Service. The model, out of Silicon Valley (where else?) has proved as popular as it has been wide-ranging – from the now world-famous Dollar Shave Club, to B2B sales and contract management software like Zuora, Apttus, or Salesforce. Most of us will have at least three or four …

Europe-wide EC-Backed Accelerator For Data Startups Launches Today Offering €100k Equity Free Investment

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If you are a European data startup we have good news for you. As part of their Horizon 2020 program the European Commission are launching Data Pitch, a Europe-wide accelerator which will offer 50 data startups up to €100k equity free investment and the opportunity to work alongside big business to solve critical data challenges …

Friction Free Shaving – World’s First Subscription Shaving Service For Women, Raises $1.3m

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So we’ve all heard of Dollar Shave Club, but did anybody think that what is good for the goose, might also be good for the gander? Yes, somebody did. Friction Free Shaving, the world’s first razor delivery service designed exclusively for women, say that they are “on a mission to make it cleaner, easier and …

London Based eCommerce Deals Aggregator Sh8pe, Still In Beta, Plans LSE IPO “Within 6-9 Months”

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  An ambitious ecommerce deal and coupon aggregation site, Sh8pe, plans to list on the LSE within 6 to 9 months, according to a recent company press release. The release states that Sh8pe has signed a letter of intent with Corporate Finance advisory firm Thorpe Beeston Investments Ltd to begin the necessary legal and accounting …

A Startup Marketplace For DIY Fans & Tradesmen With An Eco Twist Just Relaunched

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Reiss Salustro-Pilson and Nigel Van Wassenhove are two founders who believe that business should be a “force for good”, and “work and collaborate for the good of both humanity and nature by shaping our ecological impact”, and in that spirit the entrepreneurs have relaunched their online marketplace Enviromate, best described, possibly, as e-Bay for stuff …

Jacoma Estates Group Will Expand Malawian Farming Operations Thanks To $11.5m Investment

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Jacoma Estates announced today that they have secured $11.5m of investment – $8m of equity has been sold to the UK government owned development finance institution CDC whilst social impact investor AgDevCo have provided $3.5m in exchange for debt and preference shares. Jacoma produces high value macadamia nuts, chilli and paprika at Tropha Estates in …

PinU Is Another Attempt At A Location-Based App For Friends – Will It Work This Time?

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First, the bad news; many have tried to make location based networking happen (or Happn, perhaps we should say), but few have succeeded – although the likes of Facebook, Snapchat and WhatsApp haven’t even managed to crack it, perhaps it’s these sites’ omnipresence on people’s smartphones that has made location based networking so hard to …

Budget Boost For Entrepreneurs? No Quarterly Digital Statements Due For SME’s Below VAT Threshold Until 2019

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Back in March 2015, the government outlined plans to “make it easier for individuals and businesses to get their tax right and keep on top of their affairs – meaning the end of the annual tax return for millions” – by Making Tax Digital. Making Tax Digital means that for the first time, all businesses …

Ometria; Intelligent Customer Journey Mapping Platform Is Ready To Scale

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Ometria – retail-tech – $5m raised (Inventure Partners, Force Over Mass, SAATCHiNVEST) Customer expectations are changing fast and the way to generate more sales in the modern market is to give people the best user-experience, says Ivan Mazour, the Cambridge educated founder of Ometria. The luxury of being a shopper today is there is always …

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 …

Sisters Grimm; How A Dancer & A Songwriter Are Writing Their Own Theatrical Fairytale

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How do you know when you’ve enjoyed interviewing somebody? It’s when afterwards, the strip lighting in the loos at Soho’s exclusive Hospital Club feel like flashbulbs, the bags under your eyes have miraculously, sadly momentarily, disappeared, and you feel a little…well…bubbly – full of joie de vivre. It must be a joy to work in …