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Amanda Bradford,CEO of San Francisco based dating app ‘The League’ talks funding,expansion,elitism,curated communities and differentiating in a crowded marketplace!


When I envisioned myself starting a company, I never dreamed it would be a dating app. First of all, the space is littered with graves of failed startups. Talk about a crowded space with a dearth of success stories! Second …

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‘The thing I worry about is that the Facebook movie and tons of seed funding have made it almost too attractive to get into entrepreneurship. Founders can live for a year or two on seed capital, have some fun and punch their lottery ticket. If things don’t take off immediately, they can simply move on’(David Cohen,Co founder of Techstars, quoted by Murad Ahmed, FT 2/9/15) | We asked 7 leading entrepreneurs if they agreed?


“It’s true: the likes of Dragon’s Den, HBO’s Silicon Valley, and podcasts like StartUp give the impression that building a business is as simple as having a good idea and finding some money to implement it. In reality, anyone who …

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From 3 people in a Copenhagen loft to an IPO (2014) | Morten Primdahl, CTO of Zendesk reflects on his journey!


Prior to launching Zendesk in 2007, I was working as a consultant for some of the larger organisations in Denmark. My role would typically be to come in and make progress in areas where the customer had stalled due to …

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Milliennial femails’ anxieties about appearing too many times in the same outfit in their online photos are changing shopping habits. Is this a threat or an opportunity for retailers? (Financial Times 27 July 2015)


We asked Julia Bosch, founder of Outfittery, the online shopping service, about how the men’s market differed and to talk about the growth of her business!

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Words that inspire | 14 Entrepreneurs share the books that are essential summer reading!


The entrepreneurs in our list have raised over $240m in funding. The VC’s in our list have invested in many of technologies leading disruptive businesses. So we asked for the books that had inspired them!

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Education,mentorship and often investment|We asked two of the leading accelerators in the USA ‘What really makes the difference?’


“When an entrepreneur is thinking about an accelerator, I would encourage them to focus on the point of differentiation between programs. All accelerators are not created equal and there are right and wrong programs for your startup. Personally, I think …

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‘From diagnostics to entertainment, even theft tracking, IOT (internet of things) is now becoming a mainstream automotive feature’ (Raconteur / Sunday Times 28th June) It is not just vehicle connectivity that is changing. Car purchasing is being disrupted and Carwow are at the forefront. James Hind, CEO, explains why!


Carwow is expanding the way Britain buys cars. We’ve taken the existing car buying process – in which new car buyers have no choice but to travel to dealerships and haggle for a good price – and turned it on …

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Having raised over $9M in funding and a nomination at The Europa’s for Best Education Startup, we asked Michal Borkowski, CEO of Brainly to tell us about his journey so far!


Brainly was founded on the idea that if you create a digital learning environment and put students in charge, they will have the opportunity to learn freely. Under this idea, we’ve built Brainly to be the world’s largest social learning …

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Jamie Oliver and the YOU-app team are plotting a self-improvement revolution | We catch up with Co-Founders Nelli Lähteenmäki and Nora Rosendahl


YOU-app, our new wellbeing app is gearing up to revolutionize self-improvement. The weapons: micro-actions, positivity, and support. We all make big resolutions. Eat better, move more, get organised… These resolutions are ambitious, vague, and most of us stumble to fulfil …

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Stephen Rapoport talks about his new project,raising £2m Series A and why the coffee market is ripe for disruption.


Running out of coffee at home can be a real pain. I remember waking up one Saturday morning and the coffee jar was empty so I had to go out to a local corner shop and buy a sub-standard, overpriced …

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