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YFM meets 1,000 founders a year. What are we looking for?

Every year, YFM will meet over a thousand founders looking for investment and only invest in 1%.  ...

Solve a real problem and customers will find you

We’ve always had a low tolerance for things that don’t work properly. Once, on a family holid...

Culture isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s everything

Everyone talks about execution eating strategy. What gets far less attention is what actually u...

What would a Burnham Britain mean for UK entrepreneurship?

Andy Burnham's landslide victory in Makerfield, followed by Keir Starmer's resignation, has all but ...

Why we started a business when the market collapsed

My co-founder, Peter Hargreaves, and I launched Jones Hargreaves in the depths of the credit crunc...

Nobody tells founders that the hardest part isn’t the product

If you ask me what the hardest part of building Plumm has been, I won't give you the obvious answers...

The 4am worries behind an 18-year success story

In 2008, while working at the commercial industrial division of Gordon Brothers – Smith Hodgkinson...

I risked it all by becoming a ‘founder’ aged 53

On paper, Olliers Solicitors was a top-tier criminal defence firm. We were winning awards, attractin...

Paul Marshall: What I wish I’d known as a founder

I’m an engineer-turned-entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Rapid Fluidics, a provider of microflui...

‘It’s easy to start a business but a lot harder to keep it’

I became a founder in 2013, when a moment in my personal life forced me to make a decision that woul...

What’s Your Dream? Helpbnk founder’s perfect pitch to Branson

Pitching your business is daunting at the best of times. Now imagine that you are thousands of fe...

Founders can’t be the bottleneck in the business

When I started Sowena, I thought I knew exactly what I was getting into. I’d been in recruitment ...

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