Rio Ferdinand: How to win at business pitches
The former Manchester United and England footballer on how to convince people to back your business ideas
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Dougal Shaw
Date
17 November 2025
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Has the tide turned for UK flotations?
Years of decline have hollowed out London’s listing market, but founders, banks and ministers are quietly pushing for a revival
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Rupert Neate
Date
05 January 2026
How do you solve a problem like scale-up lending?
Digital bank OakNorth is in the vanguard of new banks backing fast-growing businesses. We speak to its chief executive Rishi Khosla
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Graham Ruddick
Date
23 September 2025
How Marshmallow's tennis twins served up a £1.5bn fintech success
Oliver Kent-Braham, one of the twins behind the fintech unicorn Marshmallow, applied his early success in tennis to building one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies
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Robert Watts
Date
08 August 2025
Call of the Wild led me to invest in a Growth 500 star
Natural deodorant brand Wild went from start-up to one of the fastest-growing UK companies and a sale of £230m
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Caspar Lee
Date
01 July 2025
What a cricket auction tells us about valuation
The sale of cricket franchises for nearly £1bn shows the power of a good story over data when it comes to selling a business to investors
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Ed Smith
Date
28 March 2025
How to fix UK plc
Britain is desperately searching for ways to stimulate economic growth. The answer may lie within exceptional founders rather than any government policy
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Graham Ruddick
Date
25 March 2025
How growth capital is powering the UK’s most ambitious businesses
Scaling a business is an exciting yet demanding journey. While ambition and innovation help drive success, securing the right funding at the right time can make all the difference
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24 March 2025
SushiDog’s growth journey
SushiDog has become a popular lunch choice and, with investment from Middleton Enterprises, the founders are looking to expand across London – and the UK
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Sarah Vizard
Date
17 February 2025
Top investors offer their predictions for business in 2025
We talk to some of the UK's top investors on the business world in 2025 and whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about the outlook for the UK
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Graham Ruddick
Date
30 December 2024
Creatio CEO: Bootstrap first, then raise capital
Tech entrepreneur Katherine Kostereva explains why you should bootstrap your business idea first, before you seek capital investment
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Dougal Shaw
Date
23 December 2024
How to reinvent your business when sales go stale
Fraser Smeaton turned MorphCostumes into a multi-million-pound business but had to reinvent when it became a victim of its own success
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Dougal Shaw
Date
10 December 2024