About

Hunter Ruthven graduated from the university of Sussex in geography and politics before joining Vitesse Media. He was the Editor for GrowthBusiness.co.uk from 2012 to 2014, before moving on to Caspian Media Ltd to become Editor of Real Business.

Growth Planning

What are the success factors for start-ups?

Nyall Jacobs, partner at accountancy firm Carter Backer Winter, cuts through the uncertainty to identify solid and reliable factors that successful start-ups have in common.

PR and Marketing Strategy

Customer value over shareholder value

In an age when long-term success outweighs short-term wins, Market Research Society CEO Jane Frost analyses what business need to be looking for when it comes to gauging customer opinion.

Technology

Providing IT information to businesses

Comparetheware.com is a resource that quickly provides IT information to businesses. GrowthBusiness.co.uk speaks to business manager Mike Worby about the service.

News

Fear of risk and lack of opportunity turning off potential European entrepreneurs

Young people in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are far more likely than Europeans to feel positive about starting up a business, a new survey shows.

Technology

Identifying and rectifying bad processes can be a key business driver

LDC investment director Andrew Hampshire applies his industry knowledge to the debate on what kind of IT system is the right fit.

Growth Planning

Growing a successful business for the second time

Having already exited his first business through a multi-million pound deal, Kevin Hindley, joint managing director of Fluent Money, reveals what motivated him to do it all again.

News

Luisa Zissman secures angel backing for her Bakers Toolkit business

The Apprentice reject Luisa Zissman has obtained the funding she failed to net on the BBC reality TV show by using angel investors.

News

High net worths from around the world unite with VC backer to invest in Boticca.com

Fashion website Boticca.com has closed its Series A funding round, with contributions coming from MMC Ventures, ISAI and a number of high net worths.

News

Young foreign entrepreneurs targeted by new UKTI mentoring and investment programme

In an effort to attract new entrepreneurs to Britain, the UK government has launched a new scheme through UK Trade & Investment.

News

SwiftKey’s rise to smartphone domination

London-based SwiftKey is fast becoming a piece of fundamental technology for Android smartphones. GrowthBusiness quizzes CFO Richard Gibson on just how it has managed to take the app market by storm.

News

Eventbrite buys London-based social conference directory Lanyrd

American self-service ticketing platform has closed its two first acquisitions, including London start-up Lanyrd.

News

SwiftKey closes $17.5 million Series B and relocates co-founder to lead US growth

London-based technology company SwiftKey has closed its Series B funding round and netted $17.5 million of growth capital.