Starting a Business

JJ O’Hara shares the lessons behind building a 23-store Starbucks business.

Five lessons from physics for building resilient businesses that endure.

As how he sees it, the opportunities in 2027 won't belong solely to those with the biggest budgets or the newest technology. They will belong to those who understand people best and build businesses that serve them well.

Ten years of building mission-led technology to tackle online child exploitation

How The Shade Borough turned an audience into a powerful community.

Scorpion Coatings emphasizes providing resources that align with those used by established businesses, creating a more consistent starting point for new entrants. This includes software, application systems, and ongoing support designed to simplify operations and improve efficiency. Scorpion Scan functions as a connective layer that helps unify these tools, allowing users to coordinate tasks, monitor processes, and maintain operational continuity through a single platform.

How culinary creativity inspires innovation, sharper thinking and better business leadership today.

Why investing in hospitality during crisis created long-term growth and opportunity.

The Foreign Embassy transforms dining into an immersive cultural experience

GuestHouse grows boutique hotels without sacrificing character, creativity or authentic hospitality experiences.

Omnea launches founder fund backing employees with startup capital after five years.

What thermodynamics teaches us about effective leadership and organisational success.

Flowers have always been tied to time, arriving fresh and fragrant before quietly fading away. Yet the modern gift-giver is asking more, especially around Valentine’s Day. The question is no longer how beautiful a gesture looks on day one, but how long it stays present in someone’s life. As expectations rise and Valentine’s shoppers seek […]

There’s never perfect timing - only courageous decisions.

After more than 20 years in senior corporate HR roles, Emma Harvey, founder of Candid HR, has experienced the realities of people management at every level. Having led HR functions within global organisations across logistics, print, and healthcare, she frames those years as a rigorous apprenticeship. “When you have spent two decades heading up HR […]

Lessons from 20 years in business

Early experiences often foreshadow professional pursuits, revealing patterns of curiosity and care that later define a vocation. Time spent observing streambeds, watching decomposition in fallen logs, or playing beneath forest canopies cultivates skills in attention, patience, and environmental awareness. When these rituals are shaped by family, they influence preferences and aspirations long before they’re consciously […]

The hiring process has only become more impersonal and exhausting over time. Recruiters spend hours screening candidates who never feel truly seen, while applicants talk to automated systems that feel anything but human. That disconnect is what two founders from Egypt, Saif Elhager and Ahmed ElShireef, set out to fix. Both had built early startups […]

Flippa, one of the world’s leading platforms to buy and sell online businesses, has announced the launch of LaurenAI, a proprietary AI-powered deal sourcing and outreach engine designed to transform how digital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are done. For more than a decade, Flippa has been home to thousands of business owners and investors looking […]

Jen Davies and Graham Fulton co-founded Conic to bring fresh, meaningful films to UK audiences. From challenges to triumphs, Jen reveals how their shared vision, a pint in hand, and a dedication to creativity shaped their film distribution journey.

Each day, in thousands of academic papers, breakthroughs are announced across the fields of science and technology. While the world awards the brightest researchers with world-renowned prizes for advancing humanity’s knowledge, those breakthroughs often do not reach ordinary people. This problem, which is often described as a “valley of death,” is one of the greatest […]

What my PhD taught me about surviving [and thriving] as an entrepreneur

More than 36,000 businesses in the UK are owned by international entrepreneurs, according to the Office for National Statistics, proving Britain remains a viable location to launch and run a new venture.

From overnight packing runs to landing Whole Foods and Ocado, Carl Saxton-Pizzie built Wholegood on a mission to fix the food system from the inside out.

Small Business Britain launches a nationwide initiative to turn the UK's smallest ventures into powerful engines of growth—with live mentorship, expert training, and a bold vision for scale.

When Paul Archer launched Duel at the start of the pandemic, no one knew what brand advocacy even was. Now, he's helping some of the world's biggest companies build communities - not just customers.