Category: Fast Growth

Maximising value and managing risk on a Tech Buy-out deal

It’s currently a sellers’ market for founders and management teams of growth companies in the Technology sector. With the number of private equity funds in the UK at an all-time high, the opportunity for a sale and roll-over to create a PE-backed platform company has never been better.

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The brands redefining meanings with a return on innovation

In business, some categories rumble along for years, with everybody playing the same game, driving down costs, responding to customer needs and making the numbers. And then something changes. A market epiphany happens. And all the rules go out the window as new meanings arrive.

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The Most Innovative Companies

Leading companies are increasingly pursuing innovation through a mix of internal development and external sourcing, according to BCG’s 11th annual innovation survey.

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How Startup Options (and Ownership) Works

Startup outcomes are, by definition, unpredictable. Working at a startup means getting in early for something that has yet to be proven, which means it could have great risks … and potentially, great rewards.

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The sales secrets of high-growth companies

What distinguishes sales organizations at fast-growing companies from their lagging peers? In a wide-ranging survey of more than 1,000 companies, the authors of Sales Growth reveal five actions that distinguish sales organizations at fast-growing companies.

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Organising for growth

The Boston Consulting Group have identified five secrets that leaders can use to promote the cooperation and behaviour that new growth initiatives require.

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The Globalisation Capability Gap: Execution, Not Strategy, Separates Leaders from Laggards

Over the past few decades, the rise of emerging markets — initially as sources of cheap labour and then as rapidly growing consumer markets and centres of capital investment and innovation — has caused most companies of size and stature to enlarge their global ambitions. But despite this concerted push to globalise, few companies are ready to build and run truly global organisations and operations.

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Barclays’ Fast Growth Tech survey highlights importance of strong leadership

Barclays’ Fast Growth Tech survey, which questioned owners and CEOs of UK tech firms, has revealed that many of the industry’s bright lights are feeling confident about delivering a stellar year of growth with the UK’s tech businesses set to grow four times faster than GDP in 2015.

Four fifths (79%) of all the firms surveyed asserted that strong leadership was at the heart of their growth in 2014.

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Technology – TMT Predictions 2015

Deloitte have published their 2015 TMT predictions for the technology, media and telecommunications sector. These predictions reveal the perspectives gained from hundreds of conversations with industry leaders, and tens of thousands of consumer interviews across the globe.

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Rise of the UK Accelerator and Incubator Ecosystem

The UK accelerator and incubator ecosystem has experienced extraordinary growth over the past five years. While a great deal has been written about the rise, few concerted efforts have been made to quantify the exact size of the UK ecosystem or the rate of its growth.

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Scale-Up Report on UK Economic Growth

Sherry Coutu’s Scale-Up Report is destined to shape public policy. It mentions that creating the next start-up is NOT the key to wealth creation, but “creating an environment (ecosystem) where a greater number of companies reach scale” should be the priority.

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Growth of Fintech in the UK

The UK and Ireland is now the fastest-growing region for Fintech investment (Accenture).

Deal volumes here have been growing at 74 percent a year since 2008, compared with 27 percent globally and 13 percent in Silicon Valley.

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Facebook’s Profit Propelled by Mobile

Once again demonstrating its mastery of the mobile computing wave, Facebook has dazzled Wall Street by posting significant growth in revenue and profits for the second quarter, driven largely by ads shown in the news feeds of a billion Facebook users checking the service on their mobile phones.

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