If you’ve successfully raised some cash, the pressure now really starts. Investors will be expecting you to accelerate your growth and demonstrate some proof points before your next round of funding. So you’ll be thinking about how to gather more talent around you. When so,...
We’ve made multiple investments in the winners of the Start-Up Series, mostly of £150,000 per business. To rise to the top of all the entries we receive each month and qualify for that level of investment takes something special. We have five criteria and any...
We gave our followers the opportunity to put their start-up investment questions to our panel of judges. Thanks to all of those who took part. Here's our response to the six most frequently asked questions - we hope this helps. What was the most important criteria...
Conventional theory about economies of scale would suggest that big companies are unassailable. But the normal rules of business have changed and it is nimble entrepreneurs that are challenging the old order and are more often the drivers of innovation and creating new consumer behaviours. Start-ups...
Figures from the US this month show a cooling off in investor appetite for early stage start-ups. Investment is shifting towards larger funding of the most valuable growth businesses. It is something that we can expect to happen in the UK as we seem to...
