Entrepreneurs & New Business

Though start-up success stories are widely known and lauded, most will never reach the height of success. For aspiring business leaders, could acquisition entrepreneurship represent a more viable route?

Why is this? Part of the problem is the lack of female angel investors and venture capitalists in the market. I have pitched to some incredibly inspiring women, but they probably amount to about 2% of all pitches, with almost all being…

What was the idea about 123 Form Builder born out of? Back in the mid-2000s, big data was not much more than a wildly used buzzword. Nonetheless, we were fascinated with the prospect of creating an online platform that would at least…

Failure can be devastating to an entrepreneur's motivation, and often seems irreversible. For those who feel discouraged, here are some case studies to show that no setback is insurmountable.

Ophelia Brown’s Blossom Capital is a superior performer. The London-based venture capital firm’s $85 million first fund is ranked in the top 5% of funds raised in the US and Europe in the past year, according to Cambridge Associates and…

Microsoft recently pledged to remove "all of the carbon" from the environment that it alone has emitted since the firm began operating in 1975.

The last few years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of data regulations worldwide - and the size of fines that regulators can impose has risen too. Yet despite this, reports of data leakage from the cloud are increasing by the day -…

Following the news of Jeff Bezos’ phone hacking via WhatsApp, questions about the messaging app’s safety are being asked by its 300 million daily active users.

With more companies adopting sustainable practices and integrating green strategies into their business model, the past decade has ushered in a new era of action on sustainability from business leadership – and it’s here to stay.

By Melissa Parrish, VP Group Director, and Sarah Dawson, Researcher, Forrester Research