A couple and their South Korean cooking sauces impress the investors panel and the Dragon’s get taken for a ride round the den by a team of entrepreneurs and their Tuk Tuk service.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Amelia Rope: How to be a successful female entrepreneur
Last month, the Business is GREAT campaign celebrated a new milestone for diversity in the workplace: women now make up one quarter of all board members in top UK FTSE 100 companies. As an ambassador for the campaign, and as a businesswoman myself, I was really pleased to hear this news.
Will SMEs follow Netflix and offer unlimited paternity leave?
Netflix has announced it will offer unlimited paid maternity and paternity leave in the first year after a child is born or adopted. In the wake of this announcement, Microsoft and Adobe followed suit announcing unlimited maternity/paternity leave this week, joining companies like Virgin Group and Zynga who have all announced similar policies.
Why Facebook will always be a social media leader
Celebrating over 10 years of bringing people together, Facebook has been at the centre of our social lives for so long. Even with other social media heavyweights picking up pace, we look at why Facebook will always be able to keep up.
With Alphabet Google is finally losing its business Virginity
Google’s decision to restructure its business under the new corporate name and entity Alphabet is effectively turning the business into a new tech holding company, a structure that is very common to those who regard Sir Richard Branson as their best entrepreneur.
Psychology in the workplace
Day in, day out, we are forced to work and collaborate with our colleagues to be as efficient and productive as possible. Here is why teamwork is so important in the modern day workplace.
Are you sleeping on the next sector to go crazy in business?
About eighteen months ago buying a mattress for your bed with a click instead of a trip to a store was virtually unheard of, but now millions are being invested in online mattresses businesses but why?
Reading 30 minutes a week can make you happier and healthier
This enjoyable activity doesn’t involve breaking a sweat or eating kale.
Cloud boosts business for UK start-ups
Monica Brink, director of product marketing for iland explains the benefits of cloud computing for SMEs.
Does Libor ‘scapegoat’ insulate others from exposure to the law?
You might be forgiven for thinking I’d be over the moon with the 14 years dished out to trader, Tom Hayes, yesterday, and the prospect that those who helped him are soon to be prosecuted.
Dragons breathe fire on rude entrepreneurs
Tempers flared in the Den as a couple of entrepreneurs rustled feathers and the dragons turned on each other.
3 steps to successful thinking
Who you are. What you have done. What you do. What you will do. Your failures. Your accomplishments. Every one of these things begins with a thought.
Taking the talent war social-five fundamentals of social media recruitment
Social Media Recruitment—what’s not to like?
Five myths about web developers
Just as millions of web developers use their talents to create the structure on which websites can exist and operate efficiently, so the outside world builds ideas and stereotypes of those creators.
Has Amazon accelerated streaming battle signing Top Gear trio?
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are to make a new motoring show for Amazon’s on-demand TV service that will go head to head with BBC2’s new-look Top Gear when it begins next year.
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