LEEDS has long competed with Manchester. Whether it is which one has the best shopping (Manchester, in my opinion), which has the biggest legal sector (Leeds, I’d say) or who has the best football team (let’s not bother going there) there has always been rivalry between the two cities which are just 40 miles apart. […]
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HANDS up if you don’t receive enough emails? With that question alone, Microsoft’s Dave Coplin, who revels in the title of Chief Envisioning Officer, captured the hearts and minds of a high level business audience at a KPMG Enterprise event in Leeds this week. Alongside Dave on the stage at Aspire were Yorkshire Carnegie coach
I SHOULD have known it was a bad idea from the start. Going head-to-head with one of football’s hardest men, even decades after he retired, was going to leave me exposed. But ever since I came up with the idea of “celebrating” the anniversary of one of football’s most infamous on-the-pitch clashes, it was inevitable
IF there is one standout funding change to emerge from the long recession and the banking crisis, then it has to be the phenomenon known as crowdfunding. A host of platforms have emerged allowing entrepreneurs to attract investment for their businesses from ordinary punters. Since it first started in the late 1990s, crowdfunding has seen
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