News and Opportunities2nd October 2019 Apply now for tech growth programmes Start up, scaling up or ready to go international, Tech Nation is looking for the next generation of UK tech businesses. Tech Nation, the UK network for tech entrepreneurs, is calling for applicants for three of its growth programmes. There are opportunities for UK companies at every stage of growth; early-stage (Rising Stars), mid-stage (Upscale), and late-stage (Future Fifty). Read on to see which is the best fit for you. The programmes are designed to scale
Podcast18th October 2017 Episode 5: Designing a startup with Paper’s Mark Goddard Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to the RSS feed We’re on to episode five of the Sheffield Digital Podcast. This time, we’re joined by Mark Goddard from user research and design studio, Paper. We talk a lot about the decisions Mark and his co-founders made when starting the company. I think it
Companies13th October 2017 Sheffield’s digital economy – some thoughts from an expert Scott Burkinshaw from Shorts give us his perspective. We’ve been talking a lot recently about how Sheffield’s digital industries are “on the cusp” of a growth explosion. But how does our industry look to someone who works with our businesses, rather than in them? We talked to Scott Burkinshaw, Tax Partner and Head of Innovation Taxes Group at Shorts accountants, to get his
Events16th May 2016 Knowledge in Motion brings high profile speakers to Sheffield A new series of events kicks off on June 16th with Jonathon Southam from Amazon Web Services. The Knowledge in Motion events are the work of the team at Freshly Squeezed, who also run the KTN Entrepreneurs Forum events at Union St. The first event is titled “Company Building – Keeping your startup DNA as you grow your business”. For a startup the main focus is always on customer discovery and validation