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  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Special ReportResponsible Business Education Awards
    Turning dreams into reality

    Business school students are using innovative thinking to deliver practical, real-world solutions — including regreening urban spaces, providing solar power to farmers in India and recycling discarded spectacles

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  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Special ReportResponsible Business Education Awards
    Best feet forward

    Past winners of FT Responsible Business Education awards, including academics and MBA alumni, have not rested on their laurels in seeking to progress their ideas and products

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
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    Pursuit of entrepreneurs threatens start-up ecosystem as investors target personal assets to claw back funding

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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
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    Can France become a global AI powerhouse?

    Momentum has been slowing but the country boasts enviable technical skills and a burgeoning entrepreneurial culture

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  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
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    Lessons from a cultish London bakery

    How The Dusty Knuckle makes bread Nigella Lawson loves and gives hope to troubled young people

    Illustration of a baker squeezing icing letters onto cup cakes and the letters spell out ‘success’
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
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    ‘We didn’t have a sales person’: Raspberry Pi CEO on building a tech start-up

    Group’s microcomputers are used widely but Eben Upton worries about losing entrepreneurial spirit after listing

    Eben Upton at Raspberry Pi offices in Cambridge
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    InterviewEuropean business schools
    How an internationally minded MBA led to a bold move

    Student story: A globally focused degree opened up opportunities abroad for Julie Kurtian

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  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
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    The continent has yet to create a tech company to rival Alphabet, Amazon or Apple. Ian Hogarth explains why this matters — and how to set it right

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  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    Thrive Capital: the venture firm staking billions on a few big bets

    The ‘all in or all out’ approach of Josh Kushner’s VC business inverts the traditional venture model. Will it pay off?

    Josh Kushner, founder of Thrive Capital
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Special ReportLong-term Growth Champions: Europe
    From vinegar to pet scans: Italy’s nimble and dynamic family businesses

    Dozens feature in new FT-Statista ranking of fast growing European companies

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  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Stefan Stern
    Even brands built to last need a nimble strategy to thrive and endure

    No iron law states that a business will keep growing, even one renowned for excellence

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  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Tech investor Xavier Niel urges Europe’s AI start-ups not to cash out

    French billionaire warns that if region misses AI boom it will be ‘a very small continent abandoned for a few generations’

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  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
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    Klarna’s Seb Siemiatkowski — from burger flipping to billionaire club

    Swedish entrepreneur born to Polish immigrants seeks to list the ‘buy now, pay later’ fintech in New York

    A montage of Sebastian Siemiatkowski, a Klarna bag and the Klarna logo
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    InterviewMy Financial Life
    ‘Winning The Apprentice was great. But I’d like to go solo now’

    Tom Pellereau, founder of Stylideas, on how the television show changed his life

    Tom Pellereau at Stylideas’ headquarters in Hertfordshire
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Japan’s stock market is producing too many ‘punycorns’

    The country urgently needs a vibrant business pipeline to replace the unicorn’s unambitious cousin

    María Hergueta's illustration of a hand in a business suit holding a miniature red unicorn
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    FT Wealth
    The tech entrepreneurs translating their business success to philanthropy

    This new class of wealthy elite is shaking up the charitable world with their start-up mentality and technical expertise

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  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Tech start-ups
    Podcaster Stebbings raises one of Europe’s biggest venture funds

    British firm 20VC pulls in $400mn to invest in early stage tech start-ups

    Harry Stebbings
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Executive MBA
    Older alumni using Executive MBAs as start-up springboards, FT ranking shows

    Traditionally used to climb corporate ladders, the EMBA is increasingly also a route to entrepreneurship

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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    ObituaryHerman Chinery-Hesse
    Herman Chinery-Hesse, tech entrepreneur, 1963-2024

    He was an innovator who sought to tailor software to African realities

    Herman Chinery-Hesse
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    US funding drives investment for European military tech start-ups

    American venture capital funds have provided lion’s share of investment to nascent sector this year

    Defence tech start-up Helsing
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    LexTech start-ups
    Why tech unicorns struggle to avoid the glue factory Premium content

    More companies are reaching the $1bn valuation milestone, but growing from horned foal to winged steed is getting tougher

    OpenAI’s Sam Altman
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector

    Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation

    Pony Ma, Jack Ma, Neil Shen, Shanghai skyline and Chinese flag
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Masters in Management
    An entrepreneur goes back to business school

    Student journey: After a bruising ride with his first start-up, Philipp Buhr turned to study before starting again

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Masters in Management
    Business schools target a fair start for women in start-ups

    Masters in management are readying aspiring female entrepreneurs to overcome barriers and biases

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