Entrepreneurship

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

Forget thinking “outside the box”. This is why the box is useful

Todd Rovak, chief executive of Fahrenheit 212 (part of Capgemini Invent) tells it straight: most corporate innovation labs are failing and pretending there are "no bad ideas" is naive.

Analysis | 20 Jan

After Visa’s $5bn acquisition of Plaid, will a European fintech be next?

Plaid's lucrative sale is a key vote of confidence for payment fintechs. Similar players in Europe will now be eyeing their own exit hopes.

Opinion | Deeptech | 14 Jan

The five tech breakthroughs set to define the 2020s

Oxford professor Thomas Hellmann makes his predictions.

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.

Analysis | Startup Life | 24 Dec

The four best startup books of the year

These were the Sifted Bookclub's four most recommended books of the year. How many have you read?

News | Analytics | 18 Dec

Pexxi founder says venture capital funds are “painfully” clueless about birth control

Investors are “afraid" of women's health, says Pexxi's Shardi Nahavandi. The femtech founder is building the world's first algorithm for oral birth control.

News | Artificial Intelligence | 16 Dec

DeepMind exec Andrew Eland leaves to launch startup

The startup, called Diagonal Works, aims to find new ways to improve towns and cities with software.

Interview | Wellbeing | 13 Dec

All work and no play makes you a dull founder

French investor Jean de la Rochebrochard says creating a company isn’t about working infinite hours. His book ‘Human Machine’ reflects a maturing startup ecosystem’s introspection about work-life balance.

Interview | Venture Capital | 12 Dec

The Scot who helped turn Peter Thiel-backed startup Xero into a €7bn business

Gary Turner, a 51-year-old college drop out, has helped accounting software provider Xero to grow into a €7bn business.

Opinion | Logistics | 4 Dec

My 500-unit pizza business started as a “delivery only” shop and I don’t believe in dark kitchens

Cheap rent won't make food cheaper, building brands online is hard and quality is tough to maintain, argues Fyodor Ovchinnikov of Dodo Pizza

Analysis | Angel Investing | 3 Dec

Europe’s top angel investors

A hand-picked selection of some of the most prominent angel investors in Europe, featuring Xavier Niel, Oleg Tscheltzoff and Jacques Antoine-Granjon.

News | Venture Capital | 3 Dec

Family office investment into European startups jumps fivefold

The money invested in European startups by family offices or rich individuals has risen fivefold in the past five years. Private wealth is also now the biggest source of funding for venture capital funds.

Interview | Education | 29 Nov

How learning German sparked Chatterbug founders to set up in Berlin

These founders left their US tech unicorn Github and headed out to Berlin to found Chatterbug. One says the city’s startup culture is “the best in Europe”.

Interview | Digital Banks | 26 Nov

Inside Anne Boden’s Starling

Starling Bank now manages £1bn in deposits across 1m users. Its chief executive shares her plans to continue the fintech's growth spurt, M&A potential and beating the big banks.

Analysis | Events | 20 Nov

How Slush gave Finland its mojo back — and built a thriving ecosystem

Every year Slush brings together the world’s tech elite to Helsinki. But for Finland it's so much more than just a startup conference.