In the emails Linda Ward gets from people looking for work, everyone claims to love dogs - to stop the car and get out if they see a dog. But, as she points out, a passion for people is far more...
Ozzy
Wear Eponymous is a fashion and lifestyle ecommerce site - and sometime pop-up shop - that gives contemporary designers and independent brands a platform to be discovered and through which to...
UKBF Editor
It's hard to believe Instagram is only five years old, and in that time has just passed over 400 million users of its massively popular photography app. Cofounder and chief technology...
UKBF Editor
How many times have you heard the conundrum; someone you know has an amazing idea for an app or a piece of software, but not the skills to execute it? It's an increasing predicament in...
UKBF Editor
Tricia Cusden founded pro-age makeup brand Look Fabulous Forever when she was 65. Here she talks about what it's like to startup later in life, fighting the makeup industry's 'anti-ageing'...
ChrisGoodfellow
Satago founder Steven Renwick talks about the business' recent £4.6m funding round, finding a co-founder - "it's like getting married" - and changing the culture of late payment in our latest...
ChrisGoodfellow
The next instalment of our How to Start Up series looks at how to make headway with a niche gifting business. UK Business Forums spoke to Caz Taylor of the personalised gifting business...
ChrisGoodfellow
Former head of Welsh Rugby Union Josh Lewsey shares his best advice on winning in business. Former tournament winner Lewsey spent time in the military, where he studied leadership and...
UKBF Editor
Mark Pearson, MyVoucherCodes founder, investor and co-founder of e-commerce investment fund and start-up studio Fuel.Ventures shares his thoughts on entrepreneurialism and UKBF's changes, over a...
Ozzy
Women in business, particularly non-traditional female areas such as tech, engineering and finance, have been a widely-covered issue in the media in recent years. Another staunch theme...
UKBF Editor
Founded by entrepreneur Rod Drury and his accountant in Wellington, New Zealand in 2006, bookkeeping app Xero has grown to a worldwide team of over 1,300 employees and over 600,000 subscribers...
UKBF Editor
We've all read about businesses who have brought their UK exports abroad. But what about the amazing businesses trying to break through into the UK market? One such company is...
UKBF Editor
One of the most popular threads about starting up on UK Business Forums discusses building fitness businesses. With this in mind, here's some ideas on setting up as a personal trainer...
ChrisGoodfellow
There are some popular threads on UK Business Forums about many aspects of property letting. Here's an article on how to set up as a letting agent to add to the mix of coverage by the UKBF...
ChrisGoodfellow
There are several threads on UK Business Forums by ex-military servicemen and women looking to start up in business. Here's an article on how one ex-army officer, Alex Hamilton, made the...
ChrisGoodfellow
The next installment of our How to Start Up series looks at how to make headway in the challenging world of two-sided online marketplaces. It's no secret that building a marketplace...
ChrisGoodfellow
Project-software business Pinipa landed capital from the prominent seed funder Passion Capital - and then went back to the drawing board. So what happened? UKBF caught up with founder and CEO...
ChrisGoodfellow
Today's digital business can have knowledge workers almost anywhere. Coffee & Plans is an app and web developer that from early on has had developers in Wales and India and now an office in...
ChrisGoodfellow
When Harsha Rathnayake arrived in the UK in 2004, he could barely speak English. Back then, he must have cut a far different figure from the now affable well-spoken owner of London Junk...
ChrisGoodfellow
Puddle Ducks was founded in 2002 by Tracy Townend and Jo Stone after they met at ante-natal classes. As their friendship grew they realised they shared more in common than the birth of their first...
ChrisGoodfellow
