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How to build a confident, capable team for the AI era

Article by Isobel Shaw, AI Lead at Program Agency

In this guest article, Isobel Shaw, AI Lead at Program, explains how organisations can build confident, empowered teams ready to embrace AI and drive meaningful innovation.

Program is a partner for Growth Forge 2025, a business acceleration programme for ambitious tech companies. Learn more here .

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Tech, media and the debt market

RSM share their insight into debt, funding and the tech industry.

Equity or debt funding? Media and tech business have access to both. But the magic of a well-funded business is in balancing the two.

Walking that line means taking on as much debt as you can manage – because it’s cheap and easy to access – but not so much that it burdens and risks the business. These forces are in...

Tech South West StartUp Studio: The Purpose of Owning a Business

In the first of the Tech South West StartUp Studio Insight blogs, John Barrow of Azure provides guidance for early-stage startups around communications, strategy, culture, and developing a sound financial strategy.

There are many reasons why you’d want to start your own business. The sense of control and defining your destiny are clearly key parts of it. However, it’s easy to get...

Martin Barnes: What can horse racing teach us about pitching to investors?

Martin Barnes is a professional pitch coach specialising in supporting startups. To date, startups he has worked with have raised £1,075,000.00 - and counting...

What can horse racing teach us about pitching to investors?

"It's a great deck, Martin, but I would never invest", said Ian, a very successful investor friend in 2015.

"Why?" I asked

"Because you are not...

Securing game-changing talent in the tech sector and beyond

After over 20 years in recruitment Helen Plumridge launched King Recruit in 2015 from a small home office with two young children to consider. King Recruit have since launched tech, digital, finance, sales divisions, moved into offices at Pynes Hill in Exeter and placed over 300 people in careers.

Despite the challenges faced by many businesses during the pandemic, King Recruit has...