Top 5 Rules to Develop a Business Plan
Note: Join our B2B Community here if you like this post. If the question of how to start and grow your business keeps you awake at night, you are not alone. Sooner or later, you’ll come to terms with the fact that you have to devote time to developing a business plan. Developing an effective […]
Help! My business partner is from another planet
Note: Join our B2B Community here if you like this post. As a business grows, pressure can bring personal differences to the surface you didn’t know existed. My experience has put me in touch with many start-ups in various capacities in strategy, operations, product, marketing and business development, to name only a few. I have worked with […]
Scaling Up Today’s FinTech Business: Obstacles and Opportunities
Note: Join our B2B Community here if you like this post. Over the past few years, the UK has become a hub of FinTech activity, producing some of the most well-known and successful fintech companies in the world. Just last year, the UK fintech sector attracted $48bn in investment, or 83% of all European FinTech funding, and […]
When you only need 48 hours in every day
Note: join our B2B Community here if you like this post. Too much to do, too little time? If that’s the story of your life right now as you run a small business, then you need to make important changes. Changes that may help your sanity, your relationships, and your business’s bottom line. Does this sound like […]
Make your pitch – but avoid a horror show
Note: sign up to our B2B Community here if you like this post. Cringe-making, toe-curling, awkward, confusing, arrogant, shabby, disorganised, unbelievable, deluded … all words that could be used to describe the worst business pitches. And most of us have been there, at one side of the table or another. If you want to avoid pitfalls […]
What is the key to successful innovation?
Note: sign up to our B2B Community here if you like this post. What’s the secret to innovation? Is it all about having work spaces peppered with chill-out zones, ping-pong tables and climbing walls? Actually, the truth is far more down to earth. There’s a myth that floats around in business circles sometimes. It goes like […]
How can startups make sense of economic indicators in turbulent times and then make sound business decisions?
Note: sign up to our B2B Community here if you like this post. As long as you keep your focus on doing right by your business, you can continue to gain support while the economic storm carries on around you. When you plan to open a startup, funding is always one of the biggest concerns. Obtaining funds […]
Three fatal mistakes for fledgling entrepreneurs starting out
Note: sign up to our B2B Community here if you like this post. Do you ever find you’re so busy with your fledgling company? Maybe you don’t work normal hours, take holidays or even have time to attend your own birthday party? If so, it’s a symptom of a bigger problem. But it’s fixable. The launch […]
How important is education for business owners and entrepreneurs?
Note: sign up to our B2B Community here if you like this post. Sometimes entrepreneurs consider further study in the hope it can prepare them for the future. Here’s what you need to know when it comes to education for business owners. An engineer by education, and a product manager by role, I had built up […]
Do you want famine or feast?
Note: Join our B2B Community here if you like this post. Imagine you’re ravenous — and someone brings you plates of your two favourite dishes. You like them equally and both are the same distance away on the table. Which do you choose — or is there a very real risk you’ll starve because you just […]
The entrepreneurial vision: built to last
Note: Join our B2B Community here if you like this post. “You don’t always need an exit plan – especially with small companies, where life and business are really interwoven,” says Stefano Maifreni, founder of business-expansion consultancy Eggcelerate. “It all depends on what you want to do: do you want to conquer the world, or do you […]
Why Marketing can be your best friend or your worst enemy
Note: sign up to our B2B Community here if you like this post. Giving birth to a new product can feel awesome. You’re full of pride as your idea comes to life, passes important tests and gets ready for the big wide world. But your product needs a partner, someone who will help your product to blossom. […]
“Loyalty as you go”: Capitalising on a new business phenomenon
Note: sign up to our newsletter here if you like this post. According to studies, traditional brand fidelity is declining. This is bad news for large, established players. But it’s a golden opportunity for SMEs to capitalise on a new phenomenon… “loyalty as you go”. “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”. This well-known axiom from decades […]
Why falling in love with your product can be fatal
Note: sign up to our newsletter here if you like this post. As Director of Eggcelerate, I’ve met companies at different stages of product development. These businesses have ranged from early-stage start-ups to SMEs, mid-sized companies to corporate enterprises. They’ve been in different vertical markets: telecommunications, IT, fin-tech, energy and manufacturing. Yet, they’ve had one thing […]
Winter 2016-17 Survey: the results
Note: Join our B2B Community here if you like this post. A Survey on 200+ European Business shows 20%+ of UK-based have been impacted by the vote to leave the EU DATA 202 EU-based SMEs Of which, 126 UK-based Of which, 30 (23.8%) had at least one project impacted by the vote These companies said at least one […]
Are you allergic to consultants?
Note: sign up to our B2B Community here if you like this post. Over the years, I have worked with many clients who managed to grow their businesses, often with a difficult change at some level. They all managed to do it successfully and achieve their goals. However, they all had had experience with consultants who came […]