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It’s Official – The Freelancing / Gig Economy Is Growing and 65% of Young Brits Expect To Use It During Their Careers

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Now why would you be thinking about going freelance or checking out the “gig” economy on your first day back at work? Perhaps it’s best not to answer that, but new figures quoted by freelancing Airbnb equivalent People Per Hour show that if you were contemplating swapping the office for the home, the laptop, or …

A New Food Delivery Service Is Coming To London That Aims To Empower The Industry By Charging Businesses Less For Listings

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It’s a crowded space with high-profile stories of both success and failure – now a new start-up, HeyMenu, is planning to enter London’s unpredictable food delivery market, starting on 1st December. HeyMenu say that their proposition “is to provide up to 90% lower costs to takeaway restaurants than competitors, including zero commission”. …

Notonthehighstreet.com Brings Total Funding To £60m As Curated, Creative Marketplace Secures £21m Round Led By Hubert Burda Media

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Notonthehighstreet.com, the “leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses with the world” has raised $27.65m in a Series E round led by Hubert Burda Media. The start-up, which was founded in 2006 by entrepreneurs Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, and reached £158m in sales in 2016, a CAGR of 135% …

AsQ Me Anything; Have Two Bucks Based Brothers Discovered The Perfect Way To Tender For Service Providers?

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From carpenters to pet-sitters, AsQ, an app developed by 2 brothers from Buckinghamshire, allows users to put out tenders for local services Set your location, set your radius, ask a question, and wait for the responses to come rolling in. Review, rate, and repeat. That’s the simple philosophy behind a new app, AsQ, created by …

Swedish Startup Match2One Has Raised £260k To Grab A Slice Of Rapidly Expanding Programmatic Advertising Pie

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Riding a wave of disruptive change in the ad-buying industry, Match2One’s platform offers startups and SME’s to work with the likeminded If you’re not yet familiar with programmatic advertising and what it’s all about then don’t worry too much, you’ll be hearing a lot more about it during the rest of 2016. Briefly, programmatic advertising …

Ignyte Series Continues With SparkUp Product Development Discussion In Soho Feat. Apple, Google, Reedsy

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The Collective Soho was the venue for a heated debate about product development The more intimate the venue – the better the knowledge sharing – so says Hristo Boyadzhiev, MD of Despark, an International Digital Specialist helping tech startups and global businesses to develop their brands and products. Despark with offices in London and Sofia, …

Playfair Capital Leads £1m Investment Into On-demand Food Service Pronto

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Healthy food delivery service Pronto has raised a £1m seed round, led by Playfair Capital, with Seedcamp, the London Co-Investment Fund, Ballpark Ventures, The Next Web founder Patrick de Laive and serial investor Floris Rost van Tonningen also joining the round. Pronto was founded in 2014 by CEO James Roy Poulter, Simone D’Amico and Lukas …