AI helping start-ups to improve efficiency and cut costs
The Times reports that start-ups are increasingly leveraging AI while reducing their workforce to manage costs. The objective is to achieve a significant decline in insolvencies within the small business sector. According to PwCstart-ups accounted for 46% of company insolvencies in 2024, a decrease from 60% a decade ago. A start-up specialist at PwC UK,…
A kick in the teeth for British E-bike manufacturing.
Are they mad or just ignorant? One has to ask whether anyone in this Government of ours understands anything about business and the importance of improving our woeful trade balance. Indeed do they even know there is such a thing? Why the question? – Because I don’t understand why is it that this Government feels…
Female-led Tech Companies perform better but struggle for funding
Research by the Kauffman Foundation indicates that female-led tech teams yield 35% higher returns than their male counterparts. Despite this analysis has shown that female-founded teams received only £145m in the first half of 2024. This represents less than 2% of the £8bn total UK equity investment, with all-male teams securing £6.92bn. Kauffman also found…
