How Tel Aviv Built the World's Highest Startup Density
Tel Aviv is home to more than 2,000 active startups as of 2023, a density per capita that exceeds any city outside the San Francisco Bay Area. That concentration did...
Entrepreneurship
Profiles of Muslim American business leaders; Charles Delingpole from The Student Room to ComplyAdvantage; 90% of startups fail.
How Alan Yau Built Wagamama and Sold It
Alan Yau sold his stake in Wagamama in the late 1990s, years before the chain became a national fixture. The brand he founded in a single Bloomsbury site in 1992...
Startups: 90% fail, founders reveal costs.
Roughly 90% of startups fail, according to Startup Genome. For every celebrated unicorn, nine other ventures dissolve, sell for parts, or go dark. Their creators do not appear on magazine...
SA youth entrepreneurs face barriers, funding scarcity
South Africa's youth unemployment rate hit 45.5% in the first quarter of 2024. Nearly half of young people aged 15 to 34 who want work cannot find it.For many, starting...
Footballers shift to VC and startups post-career
A growing cohort of professional footballers is skipping the traditional post-retirement roles of punditry and coaching in favor of venture capital, private equity, and tech startups. The shift reflects a...
LSEG’s 2018 report: 1,000 dynamic UK SMEs
In 2018, the London Stock Exchange Group published its fifth annual '1000 Companies to Inspire Britain' report. It profiled 1000 privately held SMEs the exchange judged to be the UK's...
Apprentice UK winners and runners-up today
The UK version of The Apprentice, hosted by Lord Alan Sugar, first aired on BBC Two in 2005 before moving to BBC One. The prize has always been a cash...
Charles Delingpole: From The Student Room to ComplyAdvantage
Charles Delingpole built two ventures that serve radically different audiences. The first, The Student Room, became the UK's largest online forum for school and university students. The second, ComplyAdvantage, uses...
Dexter Blackstock's franchise helps 50 athletes
Dexter Blackstock retired from professional football in 2017 after 15 years as a striker for Southampton, Queens Park Rangers, and Nottingham Forest. Within months, he founded Sport Business and Education,...
Muslim American Business Leaders: Profiles and Market Impact
Muslim American executives run some of the largest privately held firms in the United States. A yogurt maker reshaped the dairy aisle. A defense contractor builds spacecraft. Their businesses span...
