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Recruitment demands that you know your own business to the core. Your recruitment briefs should be blueprints of your corporate DNA. Know yourself – your values, your mission, your objectives – inside out and you’ll k

1. Retain advisers: Above all else, tax and legal advisers should be engaged early on to help you think this through and to understand how to establish and maintain a stock option plan for your US employees. 2. Employee ex

The US job market is normally cited as setting salary levels above those for similar roles in different geographies. However, it is hard to generalize as there are significant variances within the US depending on the city,

By definition, any fast-growing enterprise will effectively be a different company every twelve, if not six months. From an investment point of view, Melissa Taunton of NEA advised our CEOs, “you need to look like a diffe

First the bad news. Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, stated, “most things you can’t control”. “However,” he added, “there’s one thing you can control — how you treat people.”

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It’s worth mentioning that every single one of our guest speakers — collectively responsible for creating $200bn of shareholder value — arrived on time. No rushed late entries, no buzzing phones, no bag-carrying fl

I’m optimistic of the timing of entry this year, as it is a more inviting time than ever to make the plunge. Why? There is a recent thawing of US regulatory impediments that stood in the way of Fintechs landing crucial na

Question the Questions is a new report from Octopus Ventures that provides a stress-tested guide to international expansion, powered by insights from over 100 European VC-backed businesses that expanded to the US. It trac

Should you expand abroad? 15: Hello Fresh link: https://www.hellofresh.com Should you enter the US? Is the timing right? 18: Y-Plan Link: https://checkout.timeout.com What milestones and timel

There are many industries where institutional and social biases are dumb but powerful barriers. I wonder, for example, which is the most likely scenario? a. A 45 year old man talking about how he feels depressed and unfulf

At Octopus Ventures we love it when entrepreneurs have truly felt the problem they are trying to solve. When Aneesh Varma, the founder of Aire, moved to London in 2007 he had a great job, high-level education and good credit

So what happened when Kevin Beirne, Director of Octopus Healthcare’s retirement team, and Will Gibbs, of the Octopus Ventures ‘Future of Healthcare’ team met to exchange views on where tech could be taking the retirem

Digital Shadows is the market leader in Digital Risk Protection, providing a suite of products to protect organizations against digital risks across the open, deep, and dark web. Alastair Paterson is the co-founder of D

In your marketing, on your website, or in front of customers, ‘platform’ is practically a suicidal term until customers have shown that they care about what your product or service and the architecture behind it can do

Image: Simon King, Octopus Ventures and Tania Boler, Elvie. CPG Photography For decades, healthcare products were designed with little attention paid to the physiological needs of women. Only recently has a sector emerged