Haggerston Times

This Is A Storey All About Haggerston…

70,000 sq. ft. of eco-friendly “scale-up” office space is being developed by flexible workspace startup Storey and local architects Waugh Thistleton at 6 Orsman Road and tenants are signing up fast. We think Haggerston-ites will be impressed.

With noisy neighbours like Shoreditch and Dalston it’s no wonder that Haggerston is seen as one of London’s more obscure and enigmatic neighbourhoods,…

Do Sustainability in Fashion Directives Come Straight From The Top? FarFetch Lays It Bare On Behalf Of Luxe

The platform that sells you your favourite Luxury brands wants to make them last, too. For reasons of sustainability…

Who buys Luxury? The Rich? Naturally. The Aspirational? Certainly. The foolish? Quite often. The rest of us? In global-environmental-damage-inflicting amounts, it turns out.

Wealthy fashion-lovers are people who love to live life by their own rules, but this indefinable,…

Haggerston Times @ FashHack -The Retail Store Of The Future: Too Much Data, Or Not Enough?

Haggerston Times made its way to Farfetch HQ last week for another special evening in the company of Marina Atarova’s FashHack devotees.

Marina, who jetted off to Lisbon to help run FarFetch’s tech startup accelerator, Dream Assembly, shortly after the show, was running her fifth Fash Hack event of the year. 

An intoxicating, original blend of debate, forum, drinks party and speed…

Guest Post: What Is Venture Enablement & Why Do I Believe It’s The Difference Between Success & Failure

Harry East & Peter Rossi, co-founders of the Equals Collective

Peter Rossi, Founder & Co-CEO at Equals Collective, writes…

For the last 20 years I’ve designed, built and operated technology for several different companies; with a focus on funding, launching and scaling them over the past seven years.

Keeping an eye on why we’re delivering a project is of utmost importance to me; is it to…

Guest Post: Technology Investors Can Shine A Light In Uncertain Times

Angel Investment Network, the global platform founded in London in 2004 to connect startups looking for funding with investors, has revealed its ‘State of the Angel Investment Nation’ findings for 2018, based on data from more than 100,000 businesses and 30,000 angel investors. 

Oliver Jones (Head of Marketing) talks through the key trends picked up from 2018’s data.

£7bn was invested into…

Do Sustainability in Fashion Directives Come Straight From The Top? FarFetch Lays It Bare On Behalf Of Luxe

LAS VEGAS – NOV 08 : Exterior of a Stella McCartney store in Las Vegas strip on November 08 2016. Stella McCartney is an English fashion designe born in 1971

The platform that sells you your favourite Luxury brands wants to make them last, too. For reasons of sustainability…

Who buys Luxury? The Rich? Naturally. The Aspirational? Certainly. The foolish? Quite often. The rest of us? In…

Farfetch & Fashhack: Innovation In Luxury Fashion; A Night For The Ages In A High-End, Hipster Paradise

You might imagine that the world of high-end fashion; from the Beckhams to the Burberry’s, Mulberry’s to Manolo Blahnik; is a little geek-phobic…could there really be a place for unruly, disruptive, technology in such refined company? Indeed there could, and its hipster home is in the heart of Old Street, London.

One week ago the offices of FarFetch, a designer fashion catalogue that exists…

Investing in a home in your twenties

It may seem like a far-fetched idea for anyone these days to look for a home in their twenties. With an over stretched housing market and shortages up and down the country, buying a first home has been pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities for young people and many of us have no choice but to rent at unfair costs. With London being the most affected, it is expected that over a third…

This Haggerston Entrepreneur Is Working With Ucreate To Help Us All Drive A New Car Every 6 Months

Toby Kernon has owned 19 cars in 20 years, he says. During that period he has switched models, makes, and styles, for a host of different reasons; a growing family, a new job, a change of scenery.

But the best experience he had was an arrangement with Ford, who delivered a new car to him every 6 months, and whose mechanics were always on hand to fix any problems. If only you could get the same…

London Still Europe’s Premier Tech Hub According To Latest Reports

Research from London & Partners indicates that over £6.7bn of venture capital and private equity funding was injected into UK firms during 2016, with more than one third of the total going to startups based in London.

£14.bn of a total of £1.9bn in venture capital funding into the UK went to London technology firms, and UK tech companies attracted more M&A activity than any other European country.

Zuora’s Has Published Its Subscription Economy Index – It’s Game-Changing, In A Way

“Why own anything anymore?”

It’s not an expression you’d expect to hear coming from an entrepreneurial tech titan (and an American one at that!), but this is the oft repeated mantra of the somewhat legendary Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora, the subscription billing, commerce and finance solution, formerly employee number 11 at Salesforce.

It all began with razors – why not have a new batch delivered to…

Tech IPO fever in 2017?

Tech IPO’s, a bit like reason, restraint, and subtlety, fell off a cliff in 2016.

For starters, we didn’t get one until April – Dell-owned Secureworks’ stock opened for trading on NASDAQ at $13.89, just under the IPO price of $14.

And in the US, there were only 10 more all year. There were 43 in 2015. Atlassian, the Australian software maker, was the final IPO of a dismal 2016 – the worst for…

Entrepreneurs & Politicos: Who Was A Winner, Who Had A Stinker in 2016?

Our all-too-brief yet nicely concise breakdown of who “did a Leicester City” and who “had a Hilary” in 2017. And yes, we are truly sorry we had to use that last phrase. And the first, come to think of it.

Snap It While Its Hot!

From a social media start-ups perspective, everything Evan Spiegel is touching is turning to big shiny yellow gold – his company even released a successful piece of…

It’s Official – The Freelancing / Gig Economy Is Growing and 65% of Young Brits Expect To Use It During Their Careers

Now why would you be thinking about going freelance or checking out the “gig” economy on your first day back at work?

Perhaps it’s best not to answer that, but new figures quoted by freelancing Airbnb equivalent People Per Hourshow that if you were contemplating swapping the office for the home, the laptop, or the beach, you are not alone – and, not that we want to encourage you, the conditions…

89% Of Sales Made On This E-commerce Site Are Made By Female-led Companies!

nothing is stopping female entrepreneurs taking control of sales on sites like notonthehighstreet.com

Hilary Clinton stood forlornly under Manhattan’s highest real-life glass ceiling, and announced ““I know that we still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling…But someday someone will” as she conceded the US election to Donald Trump, the ultimate male chauvinist throwback.

It…

New Retail Fund from Russia That Plans To Invest $3bn In The Retail Stars Of Tomorrow Will Be Headquartered In London

retail stars of tomorrow across Europe will doubtless be interested to hear about Letter One’s move into the sector

Letter One, an investment company who describe themselves as “a partnership of successful entrepreneurs and international businesspeople” has launched a new investment vehicle, L1 Retail, which consists of a $3 billion dollar fund to back “a small number of retailers that have the…

Social Impact To The Fore As Legatum Center Holds Its First UK Conference At Level 39

MAX – Last Mile Delivery founder Adetayo Bamiduro at the MIT Legatum Centre Conference at Lecvel 39, Canary Wharf; photo courtesy of Chalky Whyte Photography

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT in Boston was set up as a fellowship program to help MIT students build and scale their ventures through “principled, entrepreneurial leadership”. The center also provides seed…