Growth Strategies

How Humble Crumble turned nostalgia into growth

Founder Kim Innes shares how customer feedback, viral moments and a simple love of crumble helped turn it into a profitable London success story

How to build an AI start-up in the UK

Nnamdi Emelifeonwu explains how a problem faced by a visually impaired colleague became Definely, a legal tech scale-up with 150 customers and $40m raised

Turning Sephora into a €16bn giant: The risks, mistakes and breakthroughs

Former Sephora CEO Chris de Lapuente on why businesses should only scale when the core is ready

Beyond banks: How UK entrepreneurs are rewriting the rules of fundraising

From crowdfunding to media-for-equity, entrepreneurs are finding new and inventive ways to fund growth beyond old-school banks and venture capital

Bark: The British tech platform helping small businesses

Kai Feller explains how he built Bark from scratch all the way to a £240m exit

BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby: Upgrading 'the world’s oldest telco'

Allison Kirkby is the CEO of one of the UK’s best-known brands, the BT Group, at a crucial moment. It’s under pressure to deliver on a “once in a generation” investment in broadband

The disappearing first job and what it means for your business

As AI reshapes work, the disappearance of entry-level roles is creating a dangerous gap in the talent pipeline