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7 lessons from entrepreneurs who kept their day jobs while starting their...
Keeping your day job while starting a business has its advantages. Aside from the steady income and free coffee, reliable full-time work helps you flesh out your résumé and portfolio and extend your...
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These are the 18 most innovative finance startups booming in Europe right now
London has become a booming colossus for financial and fintech startups, with many of the $1 billion "unicorns" in the sector now in the British capital.There are other pockets of Europe where...
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An engineer describes what it was like to ditch his job at Microsoft for a...
Before Michael Borozdin left his job at Microsoft in 2006, he was an outstanding performer at the company.He was in charge of some Windows-related projects, and said he received raises and promotions...
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I tried an unlimited-blowout startup called Vive, and it's completely worth...
A new startup, Vive, gives women exactly what they want: unlimited blowouts — basically a super-thorough blow-dry for your hair— on demand.Vive, which is currently in private beta in New York City,...
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Octopus Ventures is launching a new $140 million fund for European tech startups
Octopus Ventures is launching a new $140 million (£92 million) fund called Octopus Opportunities. The London-based VC firm, which usually invests in early stage startups, will use the new fund to keep...
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London's $1 billion fintech startup TransferWise quietly changed CEO in...
TransferWise, the London fintech startup valued at close to $1 billion (£660 million), quietly changed CEO in September.Co-founder Taavet Hinrikus has taken over from fellow founder Kristo Käärmann as...
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London tech startups are taking almost all the VC money in the UK
London tech startups have received a record amount of money from investors so far this year, according to figures being touted by London mayor Boris Johnson’s promotional agency London & Partners....
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Period and fertility tracking app Clue just raised $7 million in funding
Clue, the Berlin-based startup behind an increasingly popular period and fertility tracking application, this morning announced that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding from well-known...
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IT’S OVER: The 'unicorn' era comes to a screeching halt
The number of private tech companies valued at $1 billion or more has surged so much this year that on average 1.3 so-called unicorn companies have been created every week in 2015, according to data...
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Here are some $1 billion 'unicorns' who could be in big trouble, according to...
Usually when people talk about a tech bubble and the startups that could be in trouble in a downturn, they are wary to name names.But Danielle Morrill is the CEO and cofounder of Mattermark, which...
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The UK government is giving video game startups £4 million to help them build...
The UK government is allocating £4 million to video game startups over the next four years in a bid to help companies build a new generation of video games in the UK.The Video Games Prototype Fund from...
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A French startup that helps people find doctors just raised £13 million
A French startup called Doctolib has raised €18 million (£13 million) for its platform that aims to make it easier for doctors to schedule appointments with patients and vice versa.The Series B funding...
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Salesforce is going to start spending more of its billions on European...
Salesforce is planning to spend $100 million (£65 million) on European enterprise startups over the next five years as it looks to cash in on the success of the continent’s best young technology...
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A huge new startup hub is going to open in London's Olympic Park next summer...
Here East is a new space for startups and corporates that will open in East London next summer.We wrote about it here, but now we want to show you just how incredible it looks.The legacy of the Olympic...
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If you're sick of buying furniture from Ikea and selling it on Craigslist,...
Bill Bobbitt was moving from Dallas to San Francisco and had to sell his furniture fast so he could start his job a week later.Bobbitt arrived in the Bay Area only to repeat the process in reverse."I...
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Y Combinator has raised a $700 million fund to back mature startups
Y Combinator, the successful Silicon Valley startup school, has raised a huge new fund in a bid to cash in on the success of growing private tech startups that are achieving crazy valuations.According...
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Flipagram, a photo-story app that raised $70 million from 2 of the best...
Flipagram, the mobile storytelling app that has attracted some of the biggest names in venture capital, has laid off more than 20% of its staff in a restructuring, Business Insider has learned.The ax...
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It's about to get much easier for UK startups to hire entire teams of people...
Tech City UK, a government-funded organisation that aims to support UK startups, has announced that it wants to make it easier for skilled tech workers outside the European Union (EU) to come and work...
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These dot-com startups look just like some of today's hottest tech companies...
The tech bubble of the late '90s produced a number of flash-in-the-pan internet companies that raised millions — often in public offerings — only to flame out a year or two later.There are surprising...
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The 25 best business schools if you want to start your own company
When we think about company founders, especially in the tech industry, there's the enduring story of the college dropout.Legendary founders like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg couldn't be contained by...
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