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Appearing on Dragons’ Den changed our lives

1. Don't be a chicken Fred Parry is the founder of Chicken Rush and appeared in the latest series o...

I had it all and then I got divorced

Hayley Roberts had it all. And then she didn’t. Professionally, she founded specialist IT cyberse...

Mercia Ventures named latest sponsor of Founder 250 list

Investor Mercia Ventures is the latest sponsor of BusinessCloud’s new Founder 250 list. Mercia ...

My biggest founder mistake (and what it taught me)

One of my biggest failures in business came at a time that initially felt like success. Our company...

The Naked Founder enters Apple’s podcast charts – inside two days

BusinessCloud’s new Naked Founder podcast has already entered the UK’s top Apple podcast charts ...

Don’t quit before the compound effect kicks in

I started NEOM Wellbeing as a side hustle with £15k of personal savings. My co-founder Nicola Elli...

Founders aren’t born with confidence; they build it

Nobody tells you that confidence is not something you start with as a founder. It is something yo...

Will Ahmed: The man behind WHOOP

Will Ahmed was a collegiate athlete studying at Harvard when he had an idea that would change the wo...

WHOOP eyes UK expansion after $575m Series G raise

WHOOP, the human performance company, has raised $575m in Series G funding at a $10.1bn valuation. ...

From arch-enemies to best friends – the CONDUCTR story

As befits a company specialising in storytelling, Peter Cliff and Jos van der Steen have a remarkabl...

Empirical Ventures secures £10m to back ‘venture scientists’

The British Business Bank has announced a new £10 million commitment through its Regional Angels Pr...

Aura, founded by inspirational MND sufferer, backed by YFM

YFM Equity Partners has invested in Aura Life, a digital provider of funeral plans and end-of-life p...

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