Interview | Future of Work | 24 Jan Meet the young German entrepreneur steering HR into the digital age Munich-based HR tech startup Personio raised a $75m Series C this week led by Accel. But it's not just venture capital funds and customers it's attracting, heaps of people want to work there, too. Why?
Sponsored News | Marketing | 24 Jan UK startups: 33 rising stars (and just three from London) Tech Nation, the UK network for ambitious entrepreneurs, unveils the 33 startups it thinks are set for success.
Interview | Accelerators | 22 Jan Antler: tapping into Europe’s talent It’s company builder Antler’s first London demo day. But how is it different from its main competitor, Entrepreneur First?
How To | Startup Life | 21 Jan The beginners guide to startup bootstrapping Here's what you need to know before you embark on your bootstrapping journey.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 21 Jan Selling to businesses is hard, selling to the military is harder 1,200 startups come to defense giant Thales each year to tap otherwise inaccessible army contracts. In turn, their technology means faster, cheaper military innovation.
Opinion | Hiring and workforce | 20 Jan Why French employees don’t care about stocks Most French startups offer stock option packages but are doing a poor job at explaining them to employees. A few simple changes could make a difference.
News | Hiring and workforce | 20 Jan Europe loosens rules on stock options, but employees are still sceptical France joins the wave of countries loosening rules on stock options, but employees still prefer hard cash.
Interview | Future of Work | 17 Jan How Framery conquered the world’s tech workplaces — and grew 100x in five years With its soundproof booths, Framery killed noise in open-plan offices. Here’s how bootstrapping and grit equalled 100x growth.
Opinion | Finance | 17 Jan How to keep cash in the bank: Advice from Robin Klein How and why companies fail — and what founders and boards can do to keep cash in the bank.
Sponsored Analysis | Funding | 16 Jan Dough stories: how to raise and spend venture capital money Dough Stories is Soldo’s brand-new online video series centred around an informal chat between founders over pizza.
Opinion | Deeptech | 14 Jan The five tech breakthroughs set to define the 2020s Oxford professor Thomas Hellmann makes his predictions.
News | Startup Life | 13 Jan Silicon south coast: the UK’s growing coastal tech hubs Brighton and Bournemouth don’t usually receive attention for their tech, but they have amongst the highest ratio of tech startups relative to other new businesses
Analysis | Venture Capital | 13 Jan Poland’s venture capital market: inexperienced, not “toxic” Polish VC money used to come with conditions attached that made startups unattractive to foreign investors. But things are changing.
Opinion | Hiring | 10 Jan Dear Founders: HR & Recruitment are not the same thing Why startups that hire one person for both roles might be doing themselves a disservice — and the solution.
Analysis | Hiring | 9 Jan These are the 12 German startups with the fastest growing teams Some of these fast-hiring German startups have quadrupled their team size in just a year.
Places | Cities | 3 Jan Why startups are relocating to Lisbon and what they’re finding behind the hype Three founders tell us why they moved their companies to the Portuguese capital, and how they feel about it now.
