“Start with something fun and ambitious and then move into something critical,” says Grzegorz Marecki, CEO and founder of Edinburgh-based infrastructure planning startup, Continuum Industries. And that happens to be the trajectory his
From the outside looking in, a business is a business. It exists to create products, attract customers, generate revenues and, hopefully, make profits. There are good businesses and bad businesses but they try
It all happened very quickly. After a weekend of frenetic activity involving the government and the financial sector, a buyer was found for the U.K. arm of Silicon Valley Bank. Naturally enough, there
When Lloyds Bank spoke to around 1500 small and medium-sized business owners in December, 53 per cent of them said they had raised prices to customers in response to rising costs. Viewed from
There’s nothing a politician likes better than a mantra – a phrase that can be repeated again and again until, possibly, thought becomes reality. And one of the latest mantras to trip off
Things are moving rather quickly. In late January – as covered in my last blog – Britain’s Department For Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) announced that £12.9 million in government funding was going
The conventional wisdom runs something like this. The process of raising capital is time-consuming and stressful. It diverts the attention of managers from more important matters, such as driving product development or making
Do small and medium-sized businesses need more help as they transition to “net zero” and where does that assistance come from? According to a new report, banks and the corporate customers who buy
Let’s say you’re planning to visit the offices of a top-drawer architectural practice. What might you expect to see when the lift door opens and you are ushered past the well-appointed reception and
The mood here in the U.K. is not exactly festive in the run-up to Christmas. Not only are there train strikes to cope with in the closing days of December, but key healthcare
