By: Harriet Green

I am City A.M.'s deputy business features editor. I look after the Entrepreneurs page, Alternative Finance and our Office Politics section. I also help out with the Forum, running our daily debate. I have a special interest in distributed ledger technology. Prior to working at City A.M., I ran a social enterprise.

Govcoin’s co-founder Robert Kay explains why his firm is using blockchain to change the lives of benefit claimants

October 10, 2016

"When you get into this technology, you can let your imagination run wild with it. But as an entrepreneur, you have to focus. You can use a new technology to help those that can pay the most for it, or those who will benefit the most from it. It is our view that distributed ledger [...]
M Restaurants hits its £1.35m crowdfunding target in 60 hours

October 5, 2016

City favourite M Restaurants has raised £1.4m on crowdfunding platform Seedrs, beating its £1.35m target within 60 hours of launching its campaign. The award-winning group, which currently has restaurants M Threadneedle and M Victoria, hit its target last night and is now overfunding to £1.5m, raising the money to aid expansion. It plans to build M Social, a [...]
Standing desks: How do you make the most of this moderately helpful technology?

October 4, 2016

Standing desks were all the rage about two-and-a-half years ago. Transforming your working day, it was even suggested they could help you lose weight. Unfortunately, this is simply not true. A recent study published in the (rather apt) Journal of Physical Activity and Health examined how many calories people burnt when sitting at a computer [...]
Wolfpack Lager owners and rugby union players Alistair Hargreaves and Chris Wyles talk about the transition from pitch to entrepreneurship

October 3, 2016

"You can feel yourself getting older, tireder and sorer. The question inevitably becomes, ‘what next?’, says Saracens player Alistair Hargreaves. “It’s a position most sportspeople find themselves in: you’ve been doing something you love your whole life, then you’re faced with the prospect of not doing it. Playing engulfs your life, so it’s actually pretty [...]
The founders of Syft explain how they’re saving clients 55 per cent – and why there’s an upper limit to Lionel Richie

September 26, 2016

Two Christmases ago, Jack Beaman experienced something of an intervention. “I’d been out of work for six months, and a group of friends sat me down and asked me what I was actually going to do with my life.” Fortunately, he’d spent that time cooking up a business idea. “As a student, like a lot [...]
Meet the Pikes: The brothers who gave up corporate jobs and first-home deposits to launch SuperCarers

September 26, 2016

For brothers Adam and Daniel Pike, business is about personal passion as well as profit. Two years ago, they launched SuperCarers, an online solution to placing carers for the elderly in the home. “Our grandma needed care. The quality wasn’t good enough and it was too expensive. So our mum ended up being the primary [...]
What3Words co-founder Chris Sheldrick explains how his company is creating Mongolian addresses and helping the UN in disaster zones

September 19, 2016

Back in November 2014, advertising executive Rory Sutherland called What3Words “the best navigation idea [he’d] seen since the tube map”. The idea is simple: take the globe, divide it into 57 trillion 3m by 3m squares and ascribe three common words to each square. To cover the globe, What3Words needs to use 40,000 words – [...]
Hybrid engine firm Vantage Power is setting itself apart with clever software

September 15, 2016

Not many startups hunt for premises with the requirement that they can fit a double-decker bus in them. But for Vantage Power, that was a necessity. Founded by Imperial College graduates Alex Schey and Toby Schulz, the firm makes hybrid – part-diesel, part-electric – engines. Vantage Power can turn four buses currently in use hybrid for the [...]
Epos Now founder Jacyn Heavens on luck, crying, making the most of Brexit and getting mashed

September 12, 2016

Within minutes of meeting Jacyn Heavens, founder of Epos Now, we’re debating whether he should wear a suit for TV appearances. The upshot is that he feels like he should, but it doesn’t feel very him. Whatever he ends up wearing, you’ll likely see a lot more of the serial entrepreneur. Last week, he was [...]
Why more firms – from ad agencies to video game companies – are considering EMBAs

September 8, 2016

Since Henley Business School started its MBA for Music and Creative Industries in 2011, the number of industry-specific courses being launched has shown little sign of letting up. Most recently, Hertfordshire-based Ashridge Executive Education announced it would offer an EMBA for the Creative Industries for the first time this year. A key group the part-time [...]

Subscribe