iSmash goes from student idea to high street roll out in four years
Julian Shovlin truly embodies the entrepreneurial spirit, setting up his business iSmash while still at university and rolling it out to 16 stores in just four short years.
Tag: Scaling Up
Why mediocre employees can kill a business
Mediocrity is dangerous for any business. Every entrepreneur knows this. So what is so taboo about discussing mediocre employees?
Going from startup to scaling up
Andrew Weaver, CEO of LawyerFair, provides insight on the struggles, as well as key methods used, to scaling a company.
TeachPitch to bring teachers around the world together so they can find and share best resources
As schools cry out for more teachers and those who are in the classroom see their workload increase, research by Censuswide found that 74.5 per cent of teachers believed students are more adept at using tech than they are. It’s to ease this burden that Aldo de Pape set up cloud-based learning platform TeachPitch.
5 things UK startups can learn from SXSW
South by South West, or “south by” to the locals, as well as hosting one of the world’s largest music and film festivals brings together a diverse crowd of 30,000 entrepreneurs, creatives and marketers at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas.