82 per cent of Britain’s 4.9 million SMEs mistakenly believe they will not be the target of fraudsters, because they are“too small” or “don’t have anything worth stealing”, a new report from Kaspersky Labs has revealed.
Running a startup can be tough; you have a lot of responsibility and the tricky job of keeping many different people happy, from your employees to your investors. Check out what these six CEOs have to say about their own experiences of running a startup.
The virtues of cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems have been hotly debated of late, but for every useful insight there’s an avalanche of myths. Here are four of the biggest misconceptions explained.
Why do some businesses take off like a rocket whilst seemingly brilliant ideas fall by the wayside? Here are four things that successful start-ups have in common.
Does your business idea need to be run locally? Or could you build it up from anywhere in the world? If the answer is the latter, you may be able to take the pressure off and make your start-up funds stretch much further by setting it up in a far-flung part of the world.
Nearly three quarters of businesses report difficulties in finding appropriately trained, experienced IT and computing staff, according to a new report by Reconnix.
Older worker earned less during their first two decades of employment, but younger workers have been hit hardest by the recession, a new report has found.
A survey by Lloyds bank has found that business confidence is at a 20 year high, with companies predicting strong sales, profits and export potential in the coming months.
Looking for a bit of entrepreneurial inspiration? Trying to pick out the next big thing amongst the short term fads? Fear not. We’ve rounded up five of the most promising and fastest-growing start-up trends.
For the first time, the number of “things” or objects that are connected to the internet has now outstripped the number of people who are connected. Cisco has predicted that, by 2020, 50 billion objects will be connected to the internet - 6.6 for every person on the planet.
