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Entrepreneurship

  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Women in business
    Skims co-founder Emma Grede: ‘I’m trying to create a pathway for people like me’

    The entrepreneur talks about her efforts to combine fashion and inclusion

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  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Women in business
    Being fired: ‘I was stronger and more resilient than I thought’

    Three women reflect on how losing their jobs fed their entrepreneurial ambitions

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  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
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    How Patrick Grant fashioned a new direction at business school

    Study and an advert in the FT helped him start again as an entrepreneur and TV presenter

  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Q&AMy First Million
    My First Million: Tom Broughton, founder of Cubitts

    Far-sighted vision to shake up the staid sector of opticians

    Tom Broughton at the Cubitts store in Cheapside, London
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Silicon Valley investors build $300bn cash pile in start-up funding crunch

    US venture capitalists are sitting on a record amount of ‘dry powder’ as they avoid risky bets on fledgling companies

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  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Founder-led European tech investor Plural raises new €400mn fund

    The firm offers a Silicon-Valley approach to backing start-ups as an alternative to the traditional VC model

    Ian Hogarth
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    US venture capital fundraising hits a 6-year low

    A 60% decline in 2023 from the year before sends a gloomy signal to funders and the start-ups that rely on them

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  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    News in-depthVenture capital investment
    Big Tech outspends venture capital firms in AI investment frenzy

    Microsoft, Google and Amazon crowd out traditional Silicon Valley investors in blockbuster deals with AI start-ups in 2023

    A string of deals by Microsoft, Google and Amazon amounted to two-thirds of the $27bn raised by fledgling AI companies in 2023,
  • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
    European business schools
    How a dancer stepped up to launch a start-up

    Study story: forced to give up dance training, Isabella Agdestein sought new challenges

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  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    European business schools
    Europe’s business schools target Africa’s entrepreneurs

    Expansion on continent focuses on a young, ambitious demographic hungry for skills

    Amon Hugues-Michel Amon
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    Venture capital investment
    Investors shake up VC market by raising money to buy out start-ups

    Aim is to take advantage of economic headwinds to acquire promising businesses at a discount

    San Francisco-based Arising Ventures, has been looking to buy up start-ups with viable business models but slowing growth
  • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
    Media
    Entrepreneurs launch global media buying and marketing agency for start-ups

    Media executive Marc Boyan and Founders Forum boss Brent Hoberman join forces to help struggling start-ups

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  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Neil Torney
    When the Bank of Mum and Dad should think twice

    Parents should finance property and pocket money, not corporate cash

  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    David Pilling
    Why small is not beautiful when it comes to development

    The cult of the smallholder and the micro-entrepreneur is a wrong-headed approach to poverty alleviation in Africa

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  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    ‘I just lost the fear’: why more older people are founding start-ups

    Research suggests experienced founders are more likely to succeed, despite the prejudices of investors

    Kay Miller
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    John Thornhill
    The VC industry needs to rip up the playbook and start again

    The boom is over but Silicon Valley’s optimism is masking problems with investor capital and returns

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  • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
    Women in business
    From philosophy fan to wind energy entrepreneur

    The founder of a company that has developed a revolutionary turbine blade explains how she moved from the classics to engineering to business start-up

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  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    General Catalyst Partners
    General Catalyst in German VC tie-up as part of European tech push

    Silicon Valley firm to merge with Berlin-based La Famiglia for regional start-up expertise

    Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Dear JonathanJonathan Black
    Can I start a business when I have MS?

    Your question for our expert — and readers’ advice

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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Q&AMy First Million
    My First Million: Thom Elliot, co-founder, Pizza Pilgrims

    Launched from the back of a tuk-tuk, the rise of a chain that now has more than 20 branches

    Pizza Pilgrims founder Thom Elliot with brother James
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Special ReportDecarbonisation
    Accelerators switch on to cleantech opportunities

    The world’s biggest booster schemes for business start-ups are increasingly focusing on climate ventures

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  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    Q&AMy First Million
    My First Million: Aron Gelbard, co-founder of Bloom & Wild

    Online florist plans to expand product range as sales of flowers fluctuate

    Aron Gelbard, founder of Bloom & Wild
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    Tech start-ups
    Nutrition, sleep and mental health advice offered to tech founders at risk of burnout

    VC firm Balderton will launch wellness packages as stress takes toll on entrepreneurs

    A cutout of Simon Beckerman against a backdrop of products and logos from his Depop and Delli businesses
  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
    In Nigeria the optimism of Lagos start-up scene prevails

    Entrepreneurs show much can be achieved with relatively small investments

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  • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
    Masters in Finance
    Schools boost efforts to encourage entrepreneurial mindset in finance

    Students welcome progress but urge more teaching on business launches

    Top view of men using laptops for coding and writing. Coworkers sitting by the table and working.
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