Anglia Ruskin University has discovered that individuals with a high level of self-control are more likely to get a business launched than those with lower levels of responsibility.
Lightpoint Medical, an innovative medical device company dedicated to improving the health outcome of cancer patients through image-guided surgery, is receiving a £1m government-funded grant and has also attracted further investment which could fast-track its move to market.
Investment firm Worth Capital has launched the Future Gadget 2015 business competition to find Britain’s next great gadgets and top entrepreneurial inventors, while Channel 5’s The Gadget Show has signed up as a partner.
Less than two months after logistics business City Link was placed into administration, Jon Moulton’s Better Capital has sold one of its portfolio companies to MXC Capital.
London, along with New York, is one of the world’s two undisputed global financial centres, well ahead of the Eurozone’s two most significant centres Frankfurt and Paris. But much of this success has come from insurance and financial service exports, which may now be in sharp decline.
While previous studies have charted alternative finance in the UK, the market in 2014 at £840m and the year on year growth rate of 90 per cent, EY and the Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge Judge Business School are the first to cover the whole of Europe in detail.
Local, small businesses are giving their larger counterparts a run for their money as Britons turn their backs on supermarket chains and multi-national corporations.
Steve Lewis is resigning from his post as CEO of Majestic Wine and will be replaced temporarily by the company’s finance director as a search for a new head is undertaken.
Yesterday’s Radio 4’s Today Programme caused quite a scene. The programme highlighted the famous Artic Systems case, in which company director Geoff Jones had a three year battle with HMRC. And now the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE) has a bone to pick with tax collectors.
On the back of completing an investment round that means his business has now raised nearly $150m since founding, Real Business quizzes WorldRemit founder and CEO Ismail Ahmed on the best way to get funding.
